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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 [...]

Well, yes, I haven’t really been updating too much lately.  To be frank, this is the lull period between acceptance letters and actually enrolling in classes.  To that end, there isn’t a helluva lot to report.  I’m not sorry about it. Last weekend, I hauled it down to Columbus to visit my former roommates and [...]

Not that it makes a helluva lot of difference to the average person, let alone anyone who stumbles upon this site from Google, but the school I worked at last year showed up in a Spanish news report on television.  Chances are, you won’t understand what they’re saying (that is, unless you speak fluent Spanish), [...]

This isn’t a post with much substance to it, but I feel like I’ve been neglecting things lately.  There are a couple of reasons for this: 1)  I sort of have a job now, and I get paid on piece work, so it’s conducive for me to work as much as possible. 2)  The weather [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The New York Times has an article pertinent to all students, current and future, regarding Obama’s planned student aid changes: Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight If I understand things correctly, the President wants to end the facade that private lenders can actually finance education at the university level.  In relative terms, [...]

View Larger Map …and the temp agency didn’t exist.  Twice.  Google Maps says there were two temp agencies within a half mile of one another, and they weren’t far from my brother’s house, where I let his dogs out in the afternoon.  I updated my résumé, printed a couple copies, and hit the bricks.  Good [...]

In my original plan to return to school in order to become a journalist, I figured I’d go big or go home.  In fact, I went home first (I moved back in with my parents after living in Spain and teaching for a year) and then proceeded to go big.  What does that mean? Well, [...]