Semester in Review: A Personal Report

Things are starting to wind down at my desk. Well, sort-of. I have a 10 page paper due on Monday on literary representations of Algerian women through the works of Assia Djebar. Then a two day final at the Editor & Publisher Awards (EPpy Awards) and Interactive Media conference. There I can hopefully score a JOB at the online desk of a cool online newspaper or at an award-winning blog.

This summer has a huge question mark hanging over it. Although I will be going to the University of Nevada, Reno’s graduate program in interactive and environmental journalism next semester, what I’ll do with this summer is way up in the air.

I’m torn between leaving the city to work for a pittance at an awesome online rag or getting a temp job here and really dedicating myself to covering feminism in Las Vegas. Both are ambitions; both come at some price.

Whatever that decision is, I couldn’t have done it without the guidance and trailblazing attitude of my prof, Charlotte-Anne Lucas. Thank you so much for your encouragement, enthusiasm and generosity. This class taught me what I needed to know to get started in this online venture. It’s a rocky path for wanna-be journalists these days. But as Ms. Lucas put it, when it comes to your future you have it “make it up.”

That’s exactly what I intend to do.

To any of my loyal readers, please stand by for more reporting. Because it will be finals week soon, I’m going to be a bit MIA. But expect awesome things from the Interactive Media conference (totally gonna Twitter Arianna Huffington)!

Until then!

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