It’s been a few days since the end of the conference, actually close to a week now, and everyone is back to the daily grind of whatever they do during the summer. After I slept 13 hours to make up for the sleep lost during the conference, I effectively messed up my sleep schedule making […]
Archive for July, 2009
under: Summer 2009
Today was a very boring day compared to the past week. I took a long nap when I got home. I don’t even know how long it was, I don’t even remember falling asleep. Well, this gave me energy to stay up until 2 in the morning doing everything from watching TV, unpacking and looking […]
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Today was a bittersweet day. I know that many people did want to go home for different reasons, whether they missed their family, their friends, their pets, their bed or their favorite food. But no one wanted to leave so soon. Everyone was planning on having until noon to hang around, but many people were […]
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I came into the WJMC, and I was not sure what to expect. I knew it would be a group of students from all over the country who had some interest in the field of journalism. It was so much more! Everyone especially the Smith Family, was great and we had so much fun together! […]
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I’ll be honest, before this conference I never heard gala pronounced “gay-la” (and apparently a lot of other people didn’t either), I was always unsure if it was “gah-lah” or “gall-ah” well, anyway, today was even better than yesterday. First we traveled to the USA Today Building, which is an incredibly cool looking building, to […]
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Since I’ve been here, people have pointed out to me all the weird words/phrases that apparently only people from around Philly and South Jersey use. So I’ve decided to compile a list of these things that people from Philly and South Jersey say and translate them into “English” so people from the rest of the […]
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Today had to be my favorite day so far. First we traveled to the Corcoran and listened to Chief White House Correspondent for NBC Chuck Todd. He was very interesting and I really liked the insight he gave into covering the world of Politics, and actually made it sound very interesting. He gave a lot […]
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Today was the busiest day of the whole conference, but it was sure a fun one! Visiting the National Press Club was really cool, and so was hearing from President Donna Leinwand. My favorite part of the morning was the Panel on Political Journalism. All four of the guys (Vaughn Ververs, Chris Cilliza, Jim Brady […]
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Today started with a very early wake up call at 5:15 AM. I didn’t exactly rise or shine. I stayed in bed until almost 5:45 when I jumped out of bed and sprinted into the shower. I made it to breakfast with only 15 minutes until we had to meet with our group. After we […]
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Hey everyone! My name is Allison Kenney and I am from Haddonfield, NJ, which is right outside of Philadelphia. I am just spending my first bit of free time today setting up my blog and getting moved into my dorm. Today was a busy and tiring day. I have been looking forward to this conference, […]
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