Katie in Chicago (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pass_da_pierogi) wrote,@ 2008-08-26 22:47:00 |
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Starting again
Today I finally met up with my friends Erin and Matt from Peace Corps for lunch in Chinatown. It was so familiar -- having to ask the hostess three times what she meant when we asked how long the wait was, hanging out with the two of them, trying to decipher a bill written in a foriegn script at the end of the meal.
And they laughed when I told them what I'd be doing this week: packing a bag and shipping the rest of my belongings home.
"So you do this like once a year now," Matt said.
I'm in my final week of grad school, the beast that almost managed to kill my livejournal. (I do apologize for the unannounced hiatus.)
Today I turned in my final Computer-Assisted Reporting article, and tonight I mailed my final required story to my Policy professor. I hope to spend the rest of the week working on an article to send to the Associated Press.
And then -- I'm off to Minneapolis. I'll be helping the Associated Press cover the Republican National Convention. I still don't know what the final balance will be between writing short articles and going on sandwich runs, but it should be incredible.
After that, I'm headed back to Chicago. (Hooray! No need to change the name of my blog!) I got a three-month internship to do science writing at Fermilab, home of the most powerful particle accelerator in the United States -- or, as Erin put it, "Isn't that that thing that's supposed to cause the end of the world?"
It's been a wild summer in D.C. I've covered Congressional hearings in the Senate and House. I've seen Barack Obama, John McCain and John Edwards speak. I ran into Ron Paul and interviewed him while covering a party thrown by his supporters at a Georgetown bar. I wrote my first column. I've gotten published all over Politico.com and the Tennessean. And I got an article put out by the Associated Press (and picked up by Yahoo! News, Fox News, ABC News and the Washington Post's website, to name a few!) I met up with Hilarie, one of my very first livejournal friends, at the Black Cat's Britpop dance night and had a smashing time.
Coming to D.C. might have been the best decision I ever made at Medill. To think, I could be stuck in Evanston rehearsing to present the Media Management Project right now, never having been published by anyone but the Daily Herald. Never listen to school advisors.
Today I finally met up with my friends Erin and Matt from Peace Corps for lunch in Chinatown. It was so familiar -- having to ask the hostess three times what she meant when we asked how long the wait was, hanging out with the two of them, trying to decipher a bill written in a foriegn script at the end of the meal.
And they laughed when I told them what I'd be doing this week: packing a bag and shipping the rest of my belongings home.
"So you do this like once a year now," Matt said.
I'm in my final week of grad school, the beast that almost managed to kill my livejournal. (I do apologize for the unannounced hiatus.)
Today I turned in my final Computer-Assisted Reporting article, and tonight I mailed my final required story to my Policy professor. I hope to spend the rest of the week working on an article to send to the Associated Press.
And then -- I'm off to Minneapolis. I'll be helping the Associated Press cover the Republican National Convention. I still don't know what the final balance will be between writing short articles and going on sandwich runs, but it should be incredible.
After that, I'm headed back to Chicago. (Hooray! No need to change the name of my blog!) I got a three-month internship to do science writing at Fermilab, home of the most powerful particle accelerator in the United States -- or, as Erin put it, "Isn't that that thing that's supposed to cause the end of the world?"
It's been a wild summer in D.C. I've covered Congressional hearings in the Senate and House. I've seen Barack Obama, John McCain and John Edwards speak. I ran into Ron Paul and interviewed him while covering a party thrown by his supporters at a Georgetown bar. I wrote my first column. I've gotten published all over Politico.com and the Tennessean. And I got an article put out by the Associated Press (and picked up by Yahoo! News, Fox News, ABC News and the Washington Post's website, to name a few!) I met up with Hilarie, one of my very first livejournal friends, at the Black Cat's Britpop dance night and had a smashing time.
Coming to D.C. might have been the best decision I ever made at Medill. To think, I could be stuck in Evanston rehearsing to present the Media Management Project right now, never having been published by anyone but the Daily Herald. Never listen to school advisors.
