Today... is Tuesday... which must mean I still have a lot of writing to do!
Because of the way my final semester in college is structured, I have very little actual class time. I am taking a lot of independent studies to make time to work my (for credit) internship at the Syracuse Chiefs, the AAA minor league baseball team in town.
Tonight, there is a game, but instead of working the game I'll be in the front office working on content for the Yearbook/In-game-Program and interviewing another one of our pitchers for the "On Board with the Syracuse Chiefs" series.
So that means today, despite the gorgeous weather, I'm inside at a computer lab on campus... writing. I come to campus to ensure I'm not watching reruns of Full House all day and actually getting something done because you'd be surprised how hard it is, especially in your last semester, to focus and actually get work done!
For now though, I grabbed a sandwich at Blinker Deli and am continuing to work on my Distinction Thesis about the Changes in Sports Journalism. I'm gonna have to come up with a shorter title soon...
Basically, because I am a senior, I have the opportunity to complete a large writing project for distinction (or special recognition) within my majors. Although this one is for the writing department, I am doing the same thing for CRS.
For this project, I am writing a lengthy paper examining the different approaches sports journalists will have to take on the advent of the new media, like blogs and Twitter. Because newspapers are suffering (something you hear about a lot in an academic setting), sports pages are also suffering. The cuts to budgets and the pressure for space has significantly altered the typical sports writing you would find. Additionally, just about anyone can write about a sports game because of the internet and television coverage, and post it on the internet. To top it off, who needs a reporter to interview an athlete when the athlete can just tweet instead?
These are all topics I am tacking in my paper... which consequently, I need to get back to. When you are passionate about the topic/the solution, it makes it that much more fun to work on.
I'm off to DC this weekend... everybody needs a break every now and then! I'm excited because I took a CRS class on Public Memory - we discussed a lot of the monuments and museums in DC. I haven't been to a lot of them since I was a kid, so I'm looking forward to going back with a new perspective.
... more about that after it happens.
For now, writing this afternoon and baseball game tonight - what more could a girl ask for?
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