Networking

For one of my classes I have to write a column for a newspaper. I thought boo! I don't have anything to write a column about. But I'm finding that it's more fun to write than it sounds. Out of sports, life, entertainment, politics, international, and business, I chose life. My column is about off-campus life, and in it I discuss the things that make life different for a student who has never lived on a college campus and never will.

In the first column I wrote about parking, roommate problems and having my cat, Puppy. It's kind of rough, though, so I want to write another column today to see if I can get it smoother.

I haven't been sticking to my schedule. That may be because I've been fighting off a cold for most of this week, but next week should be better.

While I was interviewing a source yesterday, it occurred to me to see if I could get a client, too. The subject I was interviewing works at one of my former jobs and I asked him to pass my card along to a man in the office I thought might have some work for me. I'll be following up on that next week.

The Second Quietest in the Class!

Yes! I am no longer the quietest student on the class . . . in one of my classes. There was a discussion yesterday in creative writing about who was the quietest and my teacher named Abby. I was pretty happy that I wasn't mentioned. Then she said, "Well, Sarah's pretty quiet, too." Dammit. Well, I just need to try harder.

I posted my short story on our class' discussion board. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to find out what they thought. To tell you the truth, I'm not scared; I'm excited. I know my story isn't the worst. It's actually kind of funny. The writing isn't bad. I know they'll find a lot for me to fix, but I'm just happy to have my first ever short story done and being read by other people!

The internship landed me my first published writing. Not attributed to me (of course). I wrote the press release for the library's screening of New Moon. It'll be run in the newspaper and I'll definitely be keeping a copy of that for my portfolio. It makes me happy.