I apologize for not checking in sooner. It has been the entire Fall quarter since I checked in with everyone... (Why didn't you say anything there Jess?) Since finals start tomorrow, I can say took when referring to my classes. I took Financial Management (teacher had a very heavy Middle Eastern accent, and many others in addition to myself, had a very hard time understanding him), Organizational Management, Mass Media & Society, and the school newspaper.
Funny thing in the newspaper class, the first week of the quarter I was assigned a story on the Athletic Director retiring. One of the people I figured should have been in the article was the President of the school, so I went and made an appointment to interview him for the story. I got the interview three days later, and got him into the article. I go in on the following Monday and have the following conversation,
Editors: How did you interview Mitchell (the school President)?
Me: I made an appointment and got in there, why?
Editors: It took us 4 months to get an interview with him last year.
Me: Did you go back and follow up on the interview request?
Editors: Yeah.
Me: With his secretary?
Editors: Yeah, 4 months after we initially asked.
Me: Well, you should have done it two days later, that is what I did.
After that conversation, the Editor in Chief said "You are my ace in the hole." I eventually went on, and I believe I'm the only person in the class to have at least one article in every single issue. To the best of my knowledge, the only other "sports writer" got 2 stories in 9 issues.
Well, as you can see it is late, and I need to get to bed.
I'll try and remember to get updates in more often.
