Taking a Breather
It seems like for the past few weeks, life has been flying by. The 15 credits I'm taking this semester feels more like 18 - every week, it's either been tests, or papers, or both. Finally now, I have a little bit of time to relax and wind down before attacking my mountain of work that I have planned for Thanksgiving break.
Despite all the craziness, one of my classs did do a really cool thing this past week. On Tuesday night, my international news gathering class had a live video conference with some working journalists in Beijing, China. The whole thing was held through a contact my professor has at the American embassy in Beijing. For an hour and a half, we shot questions and answers back and forth with Starbucks drinking Chinese journalists - some of whom worked for People Daily, the government paper. It was $485 of the J-school well spent.
After the conference, a few of my classmates and I went for a well deserved drink and some grub. It was a small group and fairly early on, we realized that everyone there at restuarant-bar were those who asked questions in class. So really, it's the nerds coming out in full force.
It was a very nice time though. Had some funny conversations and talked to some people whom I usually don't talk to in class. Our topics of discussion included:
- How Raymer (our professor) wore his pink Burberry tie for the occasion.
- How the ridiculously attractive guy in our class becomes extremely unattractive every time he opened his mouth (he was our class's vocal conservative).
- How bad a driver the two token rich Jewish girls from Long Island are. Two of my classmates at the table were almost ran over by them. One of them also happens to drive a black BMW convertable. Figures.
- And me explaining that in China, people don't bind girl's feet anymore.
A few beers and a grilled cheese sandwhich later, we all came to a collective agreement that it was a very lovely night spent with classmates. And as Paul, one of my classmates put it:
"I feel like I made it!"
Despite all the craziness, one of my classs did do a really cool thing this past week. On Tuesday night, my international news gathering class had a live video conference with some working journalists in Beijing, China. The whole thing was held through a contact my professor has at the American embassy in Beijing. For an hour and a half, we shot questions and answers back and forth with Starbucks drinking Chinese journalists - some of whom worked for People Daily, the government paper. It was $485 of the J-school well spent.
After the conference, a few of my classmates and I went for a well deserved drink and some grub. It was a small group and fairly early on, we realized that everyone there at restuarant-bar were those who asked questions in class. So really, it's the nerds coming out in full force.
It was a very nice time though. Had some funny conversations and talked to some people whom I usually don't talk to in class. Our topics of discussion included:
- How Raymer (our professor) wore his pink Burberry tie for the occasion.
- How the ridiculously attractive guy in our class becomes extremely unattractive every time he opened his mouth (he was our class's vocal conservative).
- How bad a driver the two token rich Jewish girls from Long Island are. Two of my classmates at the table were almost ran over by them. One of them also happens to drive a black BMW convertable. Figures.
- And me explaining that in China, people don't bind girl's feet anymore.
A few beers and a grilled cheese sandwhich later, we all came to a collective agreement that it was a very lovely night spent with classmates. And as Paul, one of my classmates put it:
"I feel like I made it!"
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