Last night a new development came in Abby's campus commitments after post-time! Just a few hours after the IC-TV rush, I got a call back from The Ithacan Inquirer, offering me a very awesome and very freshman-y position, which I have decided essentially means, "wire-carrier." It's a great foot in the door and will also let me work with video equipment, which is experience I won't get in a classroom.
There's a thought I keep in my head a lot, especially as a journalism major: Build your resume. And if I can build it while doing things that are as interesting and fun as working on a tv show like one I enjoy watching, that's great!
Today I had my seminar, which adds and pulls textbooks by the hour, and it was really interesting. The scary part was finding it. I was beginning to think that Friends Hall really didn't exist, and even now I'm pretty sure it exists only in the form of Harry Potter's room of requirement, except twisted. I'm thinking the random stairwell to the top of Textor Hall to friends hall only appears in you are sweating with nerves or you really have to pee.
I suffered both symptoms.
Later, I had Mass Media, which was pretty light today, but will get reading heavy really fast.
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Okay, so finishing this post was delayed because my roommate figured out a way to get Barack Obama's speech to stream live off her computer. So I'll finish it up right now!
After mass media, I headed out to dinner with friends K, A, and another journalism student I hadn't met yet. It's pretty cool, with college, you're meeting people every other second. Then, we all headed down to radio rush night, which was to be followed by the Ithacan rush night. I didn't sign up for radio, but I enjoyed the presentation anyway. Then, at the next rush, I signed up for the sports department, and I hope to be assigned the field hockey beat job, which could help me get writing right away. All new writers have to attend sort of a newspaper boot camp before we can write, and I'm pretty excited for that, coming up in September.
Today all I have is still more anthropology reading (I've got the class at 2) and the meet and greet with David Geffen, the producer of the Saw movies and Park School graduate and benefactor.
Free pizza! And then weekend!
