Two and a Half Weeks Left

I will be interviewing workers (and hopefully clients) at the homeless shelter tomorrow. Thankfully I just had to tweak my questions for the food bank only slightly. I will pick up the Morantz recorder from the radio station after I write this post.

I got my rough draft back from my teacher and she says that I should probably drop one of my sections because it is too technical. That means that it will be appearing at Truth Matters instead.

In other news I will be interviewed for the position of Program Director for the radio station on Thursday. I have also finished skimming the book I have to write a report on by Friday for my history class.

My metaphorical progress bar is filling up quite nicely.

Breakthrough

I have been doing a lot of work on my project lately.

I stayed up late Monday and Wednesday night transcribing my interviews with the Breadbasket and Kay Ann Taylor respectively. On Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday I wrote the rough draft of my project, which I just finished. On Friday I arranged to interview workers at the Homeless Shelter and they said they would try to arrange a way for me to interview their clients. I still have to write the questions for those interviews and email questions to some of the experts who wrote some of the studies I will be citing.

I am not as far along as I would like to be, but for the first time my project seems doable and I can imagine it being completed on time.

My sleep schedule last week was horrible. I spent last weekend covering a libertarian political conference for the university radio station. That pushed my work on the project for Computer Assisted Reporting to the school-week and my sleep to not happening. I probably did not have the time to cover the conference, but I got some great interviews. So I say it was worth it.

By Friday I need to read and write a report on a book for my history class. I will be quite busy until the end of the semester.

Slow and Steady Progress

For my project I have interviewed Professor Kay Ann Taylor and two employees at the Flinthills Breadbasket. Next I will email experts at the Pew Center for Social Mobility and the Heritage Foundation about the causes and consequences of poverty. After that, I plan to interview employees and the homeless at the homeless shelter. I am not as far along on my final project as I would like, but I am making steady and valuable progress toward completion.

Meanwhile I am also taking History of Iran, a homework intensive history class. In Ethics of Mass Communication, we have to write a two page paper every other week and do a group presentation for the class, which I did 2 weeks ago. It’s a great class, but there is a lot of work for it. I also host a weekly news and public affairs program, Public Occurrences, for my university’s radio station. I am also searching for a summer job. Needless to say, I have been quite busy the past few weeks.