AHHHH

So, this week has been pretty stressful for me, as well as everyone else I'm sure. But seriously, I thought syllabus week, and the first few weeks of school were easy. Maybe freshman year, but sophomore year? WRONG. At this point in my life, I feel like I know enough about Mizzou and enough about what I want to do that "getting used to things" isn't an excuse anymore. This past week I've been scrambling from meeting to meeting, and class to class signing up for things, figuring out projects, attending meetings AND trying to find time for marathon training. I really have nothing to complain about, but I feel like now I need to figure out exactly what I need to do and find time for all the things that will count towards my career. I've barely had to time to sit down and sort through my thoughts. I'm driving myself up a wall.

This weekend I'm headed home to good 'ol Wisconsin to the the family and my three adorable golden retriever puppies. Facetiming them on my sister's phone isn't good enough. Hopefully this weekend I'll have to time to write down all my thoughts, and all my plans. I can't survive a day without physically writing down at least 3 lists. YIKES... I sound like a crazy person.

I needed to vent. Maybe I should do this more often.

First Day of J2150

Coming from Wisconsin to Mizzou was a huge step in my life. Ultimately, I came for the Journalism program. After completing my freshman year, I left with a little more knowledge and a little more experience, but not enough to get a complete feel for this career path. This first semester of my sophomore year is when I plan to start more intense journalism classes, for example, J2150. 

J2150, I've heard, is demanding and at times can seem impossible. After the first day of class, the amount of information thrown upon us solidified this fear, yet made me SO excited to officially start doing hands on work in what I would someday call my career. This summer I interned as a social media intern at GMR Marketing. There I tweeted for various clients of theirs, blogged, did research, posted Facebook posts, etc. Some stuff overlapped, like the tweeting and blogging, which I think will be to my advantage this semester. Although there is so much left to learn, I'm anxious to begin this class and see what the rest of these years have in store!