Friday will mark a momentous occasion in my life -- after five years, I will be graduating college.
I realize that it has been quite a long time since I last posted on this blog, so I'll briefly update.
For the fall semester I found my passion in journalism when I took an elective called Magazine Management. In the class, five classmates and I helped create a magazine prototype where we picked a theme, designed the pages with photos and art, wrote feature stories and briefs, came up with a masthead, a break of the book, a lineup, and also a budget. My group and I did our project on a vintage/retro style magazine called REWIND and earned a 93 percent. The magazine has been submitted to the AEJMC Magazine Competition.
This spring, I spent quite a lot of time writing for The Independent Florida Alligator about health and fitness as I wrote a weekly blog and wrote numerous health and fitness stories along with their multimedia supplements for the Thursday Avenue section.
For my last journalism class, I served as a copy editor and senior editor for UF's student magazine Orange & Blue and wrote a feature about a Gainesville lawyer who turned to running after losing his wife to brain cancer.
I've had a very hectic spring semester and will take all of the projects and skills I've acquired this past year into finding a job. Wish me luck because I'll need it in this economy.
