The Late-Late Blog

                I’m incredibly thankful this semester is over! Finally! It seriously took forever. I can’t wait to enjoy a nice long break.

                Honestly this was a wordy semester. As a journalism major, I’m writing papers like every hour. During break I can enjoy not having to do anything. I can enter my lazy mode.

                I wanted to say goodbye to this semester and reflect on the good and the bad about my magazine class. 

                There were very few bad things about this class, except, annoying photographers. I hate to sound like the bratty reporter, but it was ridiculous. Photographers don’t need to criticize a writer’s work. I don’t understand how critiquing every little sentence makes your photos better. That’s because it doesn’t! It just makes the photographer feel better.

                Having to coordinate my schedule with both of my photographers was annoying. I’m willing to work with them. However, they were not. I would offer to take time off from work or leave class early. But, once again it was all about what they wanted to do. Give me a break!

                Sad to say there were some incidences that lead to more assignments. I honestly didn’t mind having to keep a blog. I feel my writing has improved. I’m able to produce better ideas, type faster, and avoid writers block. Sadly, I have not improved on my self-editing. I’m horrible about it. My eyes see what they want to see, and not what’s written on the screen. Oh well, one day I can hope for improvement. The hardest part about the blogs is posting them on time. I’m forgetful. This blog is a late make-up blog, which I’m posting late. Kind of ironic, but better than submitting nothing.

                Another assignment that was added on due to numerous incidences was a book report. Personally, I do not like reading. It bores me like crazy. Maybe it’s because I haven’t read a book I actually enjoy. Or it could be because I like watching TV better. The book report was probably the only thing I didn’t enjoy about city mag.

                I really like magazine writing though. Everything is about features, not necessarily hard core news. There is a lot of planning into creating a magazine. I learned a lot about the work it takes to produce a magazine. Our class was defiantly more chillax which made things less stressful.

                I enjoyed my magazine class. It was one of the classes I actually looked forward to going to. I have met some really cool people and hope to see them in other journalism classes. I appreciate everything this class has taught me. I feel I has really strengthened my writing, and brought out my voice even more. My personal goal for nest semester is editing. I’m horrible at it! Let’s keep our fingers crossed that I have another great semester in spring.

                Goodbye city magazine. Thank you for all you’ve taught me! I enjoyed everything a have truly learned so much. Until next semester, adios!