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I am at the midpoint of the year, where I'm trying to figure out if I want to stay in the journalism program, if I want to switch to English, if I want to pursue english after I'm done my undergrad or go to art school or journalism school or some other grad school (MIT for Media Studies? Columbia for Journalism? NYU for English? Concordia or McGill for anything?) or get a teaching degree (but how would I teach art? Would I need to take Art courses at UTSC?) or try modelling (ha!) or create my own magazine.
In any case, I don't know why I'm stressing over my marks, as some aren't great but they're still decent (and there's lots of the course to make up for it) and some are above average, but overall, I'm still extremely frustrated over marks like B+. In one class I nearly cried!
In many of my 'dream' schools, you need a B+ to A- average with tons of extracurriculars just to be considered, and in the fields of journalism, you also need to be published with various journals and newspapers. Which means that although I was let go from a volunteer position with one of the local papers on campus, I gotta get experience fast on different levels and on different papers, while trying to boost up my GPA a full point.
Blarrrg.
[Above is an entry from a few days ago I forgot to post. Here is my current entry.]
It is 3:13 am. For the first time in my life, I'm really, really interested in Politics. I mean, and my boyfriend will be mad at me for this, I've been watching the events unfolding in the United States Midterm Election for the past 4 hours, slowly waiting for results to trickle in until a verdict has been made regarding the Senate position. For those who have no idea what exactly constitutes a U.S. Midterm election, here is a handy guide made by the BBC: Q&A US Midterm Elections 2006.
I don't know why I'm staying up. Maybe it's so I can have the scoop, send off a draft to the Varsity and maybe get something published in Thursday's paper. Maybe I'm trying to pre-empt my other assignment due on Saturday.
In any case, I have sabotaged a decent amount of sleep and homework time for something I used to think bored me to tears, but has actually interested me a lot tonight. I always thought that political journalism was boring, I never had an interest in Canadian politics. However, after my first article for The Underground (UofT Scarborough's Official Campus Paper) regarding the recent World's Fair bid fiasco, I've suddenly found it less.. offensive. I mean, this whole thing with scandals and money and campaigns and fundraisers and incumbents and pickups and the giant screen on CNN (shuddup, I can't find MSNBC and thank god I couldn't find FOX) is suddenly starting to look appealing. I don't know if I would be good at reporting it from a blogger's perspective, and I certainly don't see myself running for politics again (I did quit the SCSU) but watching tonight's insane broadcast (Democrats in power in the HOuse of Representatives for the first time in 12 years! 'Frothy' Santorum is out! Texas has Democratic representatives and One-Third of Evangelicals voted Democrat!) and doing more polished professional articles makes me not want to quit Journalism as much, although I may end up quitting the program at UTSC and just going to Concordia afterwards or something, I'll try for scholarships and stuff.
EEEEE! Must check tv, do quick reading and finish 1% assignment for tomorrow, and try and get some resemblance of a nap before I wake up at 7:30 for my 9am class on Shakespeare.
Must... Drink.. Coffee.... *snore*
In any case, I don't know why I'm stressing over my marks, as some aren't great but they're still decent (and there's lots of the course to make up for it) and some are above average, but overall, I'm still extremely frustrated over marks like B+. In one class I nearly cried!
In many of my 'dream' schools, you need a B+ to A- average with tons of extracurriculars just to be considered, and in the fields of journalism, you also need to be published with various journals and newspapers. Which means that although I was let go from a volunteer position with one of the local papers on campus, I gotta get experience fast on different levels and on different papers, while trying to boost up my GPA a full point.
Blarrrg.
[Above is an entry from a few days ago I forgot to post. Here is my current entry.]
It is 3:13 am. For the first time in my life, I'm really, really interested in Politics. I mean, and my boyfriend will be mad at me for this, I've been watching the events unfolding in the United States Midterm Election for the past 4 hours, slowly waiting for results to trickle in until a verdict has been made regarding the Senate position. For those who have no idea what exactly constitutes a U.S. Midterm election, here is a handy guide made by the BBC: Q&A US Midterm Elections 2006.
I don't know why I'm staying up. Maybe it's so I can have the scoop, send off a draft to the Varsity and maybe get something published in Thursday's paper. Maybe I'm trying to pre-empt my other assignment due on Saturday.
In any case, I have sabotaged a decent amount of sleep and homework time for something I used to think bored me to tears, but has actually interested me a lot tonight. I always thought that political journalism was boring, I never had an interest in Canadian politics. However, after my first article for The Underground (UofT Scarborough's Official Campus Paper) regarding the recent World's Fair bid fiasco, I've suddenly found it less.. offensive. I mean, this whole thing with scandals and money and campaigns and fundraisers and incumbents and pickups and the giant screen on CNN (shuddup, I can't find MSNBC and thank god I couldn't find FOX) is suddenly starting to look appealing. I don't know if I would be good at reporting it from a blogger's perspective, and I certainly don't see myself running for politics again (I did quit the SCSU) but watching tonight's insane broadcast (Democrats in power in the HOuse of Representatives for the first time in 12 years! 'Frothy' Santorum is out! Texas has Democratic representatives and One-Third of Evangelicals voted Democrat!) and doing more polished professional articles makes me not want to quit Journalism as much, although I may end up quitting the program at UTSC and just going to Concordia afterwards or something, I'll try for scholarships and stuff.
EEEEE! Must check tv, do quick reading and finish 1% assignment for tomorrow, and try and get some resemblance of a nap before I wake up at 7:30 for my 9am class on Shakespeare.
Must... Drink.. Coffee.... *snore*