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Not much, to be frank.  But here’s the email correspondence I had last Friday/Saturday with NYU.  I’ve detailed in previous posts that I am awaiting my decision from them and had emailed the director of the News and Documentary program last Monday; she told me she’d need until Wednesday.  I emailed her again on Friday, [...]

Leave it up to the New York Times to provide the world with an article that isn’t simply a rehash and gives us something to consider.  Let’s take a big breath, hold it, and remember what good storytelling and reporting are like. Ahhh. Today, on their website, the Times has a fantastic article entitled “J-Schools [...]

The idea that journalism jobs are disappearing–GASP–and that somehow journalism schools are managing to thrive–NO WAY–has been catching on like wildfire on the internet as of late.  The LA Times decided to join the party, with an article entitled “As newspapers decline, journalism schools thrive“.   Holy Christ, who’s next?  Seriously, I’ve read the same [...]

Going to journalism school won’t allow you to be a journalist.  It’s simply a fact.  Gradplus.com tosses up this brief article telling all of us would-be journalists that, in fact, there aren’t a helluva lot of journalism jobs out there.  The article says y0ung journalists must learn to incorporate audio and visual elements into their [...]

There’s a NYT article on the site today about cultivating IQ through early childhoood development programs.  Somewhere in college, the subject of education became increasingly important to me.  Distinctly, I remember a conversation I had with a professor during her office hours where we discussed how exorbitantly expensive the cost of education was becoming, and [...]

Well, I sent off the official letter to Mizzou yesterday, stating that I will not be attending.  To be honest, none of the teaching or research positions they offered were ever of much interest to me–until yesterday, when it didn’t matter anymore.  There was a position running their radio program, Radio Adelante, which requires someone [...]

In my WordPress dashboard, I can see how people access my page.  I won’t go into specifics.  Anyway, I can see what search terms bring people here.  Mostly, it’s people googling “Columbia waitlist” or “graduate acceptance letter” and mundane things of that nature.  Then, you get a few that make it all worthwhile.  I now [...]

Going into the GRE, I felt pretty confident.  As previously stated, I was cramming for a while and had taken plenty of practice tests.  I could probably have done a better job with studying, but there’s always room for improvement, unless you get a perfect.  Despite the extreme narcissism, I know I am not perfect. [...]

For all parties interested in the topic, my advice concerning the GRE is semi-professional; I say this because technically speaking, I am a trained professional in GRE prep.  I have worked for a large company, with whom I have a no-compete clause, in GRE test prep stuff.  Anyway, my advice lives outside of their realm. [...]

Count me as one of those knuckleheads who thinks being properly trained as a journalist is important.  It seems like I add nothing but other people’s content to the site, but so be it.  I can’t say I give a damn.  All this stuff I’m putting up here seems important to me.  And that’s all [...]