Editor's Power

My latest article has been published today. I got a little tip from the editor-in-chief to add a little meat to my article and I went ahead and added some hard facts in there. It's nice to get constructive criticism, even though, I'll be honest, I've been known not to take it too well at times. But given in the right ways I think it's very helpful.

However, I'm a little annoyed that some editor (not sure who) changed the first sentence of my article. To me, it sounds a little snobbish to start out by saying "In my Californian opinion...". First of all, this is something I would never say. And second, I don't want everyone to hate me. Oh well, we'll see how they respond to this one.

Here's the link.

No Homesickness Here

This year, I am pleasantly surprised that I haven’t been very homesick.

I miss the people at home—my mom, my dad, my best friend—but I don’t really miss being at home. This summer was interesting. I was bored a lot. I really don’t have much going on at home anymore. My life is here now (as much as my mom doesn’t want to hear that).

This year has been a great one already. I’m really enjoying living on my own. However, sometimes it’s a little, well, lonely. My group of friends used to live in my building last year. So because all of us were extremely lazy, this worked out well. But now that they all live together in another building, I don’t see them nearly as much. I’m not really involved in their plans and most of the time they don’t make a huge effort to come visit me.

On the bright side, I’ve gotten closer to the RAs on my staff. We’re on the same schedule and do live in the same building. Weird how that works out. Anyway, I feel so comfortable as an RA. Like this is what I’m meant to do. I love my hallway, my building, and my staff. It’s a great atmosphere. 

First Article!

So today my first article was published in my school's newspaper, The Chronicle. Here's a link to it: Bob Saget Opinion Article

Within an hour of it being posted, I already had 2 comments online. While they weren't encouraging comments, it's nice to know that people are actually reading what I have to say. I'm in the process of planning my next article. I'm not sure if I'm going to stay solely in Opinion. While I do love sharing my thoughts with the world, I'd like to do a hard news story or maybe even a feature. Im doing a news feature for my Journalism class, so maybe I'll work on that for both class and the paper.

The meeting for the paper is tonight and I'm also thinking of joining the production stage of the paper (editing, designing, things of that sort). I'm interested in running the actual web page because that's leaning more towards what I may be doing in the future. But anyway, I hope you enjoy my article! It's fun seeing my name in the by line of a paper again!

Getting Old

It’s official, I’m getting old. Sometime last week, I pulled a muscle on the left side of my back. It is the most annoying thing in the world. For those of you who have hurt your back before, I feel your pain.

It might not be so bad if I didn’t have a life and could just lay in bed for a week. But of course I had to drive 2 hours to Massachusetts, walk around all weekend, drive 2 hours back, and still have to walk to all my classes and sit in very uncomfortable desks and chairs.

However, think goodness for Aleve and Icy Hot! They are the only reasons that I’m able to get through the day. But I still feel a little ridiculous holding my back to bend over to pick something up. I suppose this is just a little taste of what it’s going to feel like when I’m older.

It's About Time

So this semester, I have decided to finally join the newspaper for my campus. I wanted to do it last year, but for some reason I never made my way to their meetings on Wednesday nights. But, with the encouragement from one of my residents (yes, it’s a two way street of support in my hall) we went with one of my friends.

For the next edition of the paper, I am planning on writing a story about being from California at a school in Connecticut. Sound a little familiar? So maybe it’s not the newest idea I’ve had (pauses to look over blog) but I think it’s a great point to start. It’s kind of like introducing myself to everyone.

The cool thing about our newspaper—called The Chronicle—is that even if your story doesn’t make it in the print edition, they post everything online. Once I’m officially published, I’ll be posting links to my stories so you all can check them out!

And yes, I realize that it's been a while since my last post. I'm going with the excuse that I've been really busy (because I have been really busy) and just haven't had any quality time to sit down and do this. It's difficult to write personally when I have homework to do and newspaper articles to write. Also, for one of my business classes, I've been asked to write a blog. So I'll be spending some of my time doing that. I have to post 4 times a week on a subject of my choosing. I'd just like to reflect that I don't even post 2 times a week--let alone 4--on this blog. We'll see how that goes. Here's a link to it: Erica's 20 Percent Time