Grad school Quarter #2 Week #1 is miles away from what it felt like to start the program in January. The reorganization of people has worked in my favor — I think everyone is benefiting from the better chemistry that comes with choosing where you want to be. I’m much happier.
We went to Bloomberg (111 S. Wacker in the Financial District) this morning to learn how to use a terminal, i.e. two big computer screens attached to a keyboard with lots of colorful but unfamiliar buttons. A Medill alum sped us through a breakneck tutorial. The free food and soda made the intimidating speed of things more acceptable than it was.
I’m business reporting. I am neither business nor number inclined, so the whole experience has been pretty intimidating so far. It’s refreshing to feel unfamiliar concepts click together in my brain, but those happenings are few and far between.
Coding HTML in my interactive course … I already know how to do the basics, but I’m looking forward to seeing where this is going.
Is Medill training coders or journalists? That’s a question my roommate’s friend posed in an editorial submission yesterday (and no, he’s not in the program right now). I’ve been asking myself that a lot lately.
Random post, I know, but actually my main reason for writing is to share this blog link. It’s one of the coolest, most beautiful examples of community-minded feature journalism I’ve seen lately (The Chicago Reader tipped me off). The subject matter is Detroit, but I’m hooked as if the city were my own.
Detroitblog.
Anyway, night.
