We've come a long way.

Through my trials in the JMC program, I've learned a lot about Journalism, which, I guess, is to be expected. But I've acutally learned a decent amount of skills that'll probably keep with me.

Writing has been a strong point of mine since about the 11th grade in High School but since then I've been able to temper it, successfully being able to bend it and shape it to my will. Whereas in High School I would be at work on a piece of writing for a very long time.

I've also learned through the JMC department that I'm not going to have an easy time ahead of me. I got into the program late Sophomore year, which put me at a disadvantage for classes and credits. My Junior year has been devoted to the program, I've never been so immersed in a series of classes like I have been this year. It gave me a needed boost to my enthusiasm and cut down on my procrastination.

Not feeling the Jubilee

As an assignment in class we wrote about the Communication Jubilee that UNC's School of Communication put together. Although we had the time to do research before the event, I wasn't very attentive about this story at all. That may've been the most difficult thing about this story.
The easiest was doing the reporting, which is probably also the easiest step for most story writing.

Day-in-the-life story commentary

For our day-in-the-life story I chose to write about Derek Capo and his "adventure" of turning in his Art entrance portfolio.

The most difficult thing about writing this story was that I kept going over the word limit. I took a good seven pages of notes about Derek Capo and what he did during his day. I was sad to have to cut so much of it out.

The easiest thing about the story was writing it. I had taken all of the notes and the words seemed to pour from my notebook to my word processor. Cliched? Yeah.

From the research I did on this story I learned that I really want to take art classes again. The atmosphere is rich with humor and sarcasm, it was nice being back in that setting.

While writing and rewriting the story I learned that it's much harder to keep tenses on a feature story as opposed to a news story. Which sounds weird coming from a college student who is versed in english and writing that accursed language.

I think my observations were really good. I had Derek read over it and he had said "It's like I'm in that day again, how awful."

This story was rich was english "no-no's" in the fact that I switch tenses... a lot.