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You’re not going to get a lot of facts out of every subsequent sentence from here on out.  This is simply my opinion on the first quarter at Medill. So what do I think? NEWSWRITING Well, the workload is about right.  If anything, it probably errs on the side of being too light.  I say [...]

I am sitting in methods right now.  I had an audio project due on Wednesday.  Basically, I had to get ambient sound and interview people to profile a location.  I chose the El stop by my house.  My project kinda sucked.  I misinterpreted directions and had no narration.  My instructors strayed from the directions on [...]

No, I haven’t been picking oranges or ploughing wheat fields. I actually got to go out into the city and do some reporting stuff yesterday. From the way things appear, our methods classes have been divided up geographically. We put 2 and 2 together when we realized that many neighbors were in our individual classes. [...]

Yesterday, I broke my cherry in writing a lead. We only wrote one–one of the other classes wrote two whole stories that day, mind you–but I thought it was a good challenge. To be honest, it wasn’t much different than any other sort of writing I’ve previously done. It’s just a tighter focus on the [...]

Well, today was day number 3, I guess, if you want to think of Monday as a non-school day. It was orientation, so I don’t think it counts. Tuesday was the first real day, and the only real class I had was editing. I foresee editing as being rather bland, but so be it. I [...]