broadcast outcast

Keeping in line with my complete ego-mania, I’ve received my first real compliment about what’s being accomplished here on the site.  As if I needed any help having a big head.  Ha.  But seriously, it’s good to know somebody thinks I’m doing something good. — I found your blog after typing in some words about [...]

Finally, something of substance.  It now makes my decision final.  Well, sort of.  I’d still consider Columbia, but it appears as if they have reached their maximum occupancy.  Somebody call the fire marshall. — Dear Xxxx, Thank you for applying to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The Admission Committee appreciates the time and [...]

I haven’t clicked any of the links offered up here, but that doesn’t really matter.  It’s all about you.  Here’s the text of an email I got from Northwestern yesterday: — Medill New Media Project Wins Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) Award   Dear Xxxx,  Congratulations, again, on your acceptance to Medill’s Master [...]

NYU took it upon themselves to send me some very useful messages in the last week…not. First, they sent me an email last Friday nudging me to make my admissions decision.  Well, seeing how I had 4 weeks from the time they sent me my official acceptance letter, which was dated April 23, 2009, I [...]

I do my best to get whatever posts I can find about the field of journalism up here while commenting on them.  I stumbled on a piece from the New Britain Herald from Connecticut, where James. H Smith gives a fair take on journalism.  I don’t claim to be familiar with his work or the [...]

Yup.

I feel a little sorry for anyone who actually sits down and asks, “Gee, I wonder why there haven’t been many updates recently on this site?”  In case there’s someone like that out there, I’ll try to quell the rumors. First, I have been trying to work more in my free time, if you’d like [...]

Not that it’s news, so much as an inevitability, but today I sent off the fun little form, sans $250 tuition deposit, to NYU to let them know that I will not be attending school there come Fall 2009.  My reasons are well documented.  Now, they are official and in triplicate.  Although, I’m not sure [...]

Having cut that $500 check a few weeks ago, I gained access to a couple of things at Medill.  Actually, that’s not totally true. Once I was admitted, I received an email address at Medill.   It’s pretty cool, in fact, as they use a proprietary form of Gmail that’s been modified to their specifications. [...]

With the rash of non-updates, which is just codespeak for my laziness and general apathy, I now present responses to my inquiries regarding teaching undergrad classes while at Northwestern.  Drumroll please… — To Whom It May Concern: My name is Xxxx and I write to inquire about potential opportunities as an Extra-Departmental Graduate Teaching Assistant.  I [...]