All of the University News Stories!

Here is a collection of all of the articles, blogs and videos I have done for University News:

Articles:
Student Spotlight: Allie Strader
Financial Literacy Expert
Student Spotlight: Melissa Bromley
RIT Spring Career Fair
Student Packaging Jamboree
RIT Taste of 140 Characters Conference 
Student Spotlight: Meghan Lima
Wifely Role in Sex Scandals 
Student Spotlight: Kara Shierly
Microsoft Puzzle Challenge
The Vagina Monologues 
Student Spotlight: Ross Lancaster
SPIE Conference 
3-D Planeterrainium
Frans Wildenhain: Honoring the Craft
RIT GeneSIS
Student Spotlight: Harshita Sood
Joe Delgado: Helping Others Achieve Wellness Goals
Student Spotlight: Tracey O'Dowd
Frans Wildenhain: Sketchbooks
'Fade' among 20 Best Video Games
Technology Woman of the Year
Crain's 40 Under 40
Three Generations of Alumni
Student Spotlight: Guerin Gagliastri
RIT Players: 'Peanuts' All Grown Up
Student Spotlight: Bharat Thazhathu
Imagine RIT Exhibits Honored
STEP at RIT
Student Spotlight: Chris Haltigin
Autonomus Humanoid Robot at RIT

Blog:
My First Week at University News

Video:

I have also done a lot of captioning, went to press conferences and attended events. Working at University News has been my best professional experience!

I hope I grabbed everything! If not go here and have a look!

AP Stylebook: My New Best Friend

I am LOVING my co-op at RIT University News and it has just a week! Everyone here is really nice and helpful and I'm learning so much! 

Here, we use AP style when writing press releases.  I have never used the AP format before this week and I'm plunging into it.  It reminds me of the time freshmen year when I wrote my first real paper in college when I had to use APA format for the first time. It makes me wonder how so many people come to use different formats other the MLA (the format I was formally taught in high school).  I even remember my teacher stating "This is the format you will use in college and in your career.  The other formats don't really matter." Now, I think I had a fairly good English education but this is ridiculous. If I feel so behind in formats, how did others feel? I can honestly say I have never used MLA format once in my higher education. I have heard similar complaints from my classmates at RIT.  I think teachers need to reevaluate how much time they spend on formatting and the types of formats they cover.  I understand it can't all be taught, but an introduction would be nice.

After adjusting to APA format (which I still have to reference on occasion) here pops another challenge! AP format! 

Thanks to the stylebook and the editors at University News who are kind enough to explain the technique, I am slowly but surely catching on.  My goal is to have read through the AP stylebook by the end of the month.

I will master you AP format... if it's the last thing I do!

The Book List VS. The Never Ending To-Do List

I'm an avid reader and I love reading all different sorts of books.  Unfortunately, I don't always have the time to read running to a from different meetings, classes, and rehearsals while trying to balance homework. Something needs to be painfully cut, which forces me to fall behind on my reading list... way behind.

However! Next quarter I'm going on Co-op next quarter!!! In theory I will have lots of this thing called free time because I won't have to do homework!! Woo Hoo!

Thus my Spring Quarter Reading List:

1. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
(Book 2 in A Game of Thrones, I warned you I was far behind!!)

2. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
(Book 3 in A Game of Thrones)

3. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
(Book 4 in A Game of Thrones)

4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

5. Save Haven by Nicholas Sparks

6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. 

Now I'm not so naive to think that I will actually get through my list (I frequently fill up my time with anything I can) but I think this is also a good start!  

Hope I got you interested in some good books and I'm always up for suggestions!