I could not imagine life at Mizzou without being a part of the Greek community. The genuine excitement and enthusiasm at Fling is impossible to comprehend unless you've been there. You don't know unless you've watched a sorority girl in front of thousands of students in Jesse Hall go from nervous and quiet to the most amazing, profound vocalist you've ever heard. You can't imagine the fraternity men that have been practicing for weeks on guitars, violins, and empty trash cans they bang on with sticks to produce the most original, impressive song possible. You cannot understand the commitment and the spirit that goes into achieving these goals. What I love about Fling is it is the one optional and alcohol/party/sex/drug-free event in college everyone just genuinely, whole-heartedly cares. After weeks of daily and nightly skit practice, frustrating problems, encouraging pep talks, and a lot of messing around, we managed to pull together a first-place skit. Check it out.
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Majors are a funny concept. What seems like a second ago we were little kids and we had a "favorite subject". Math and I didn't get along and science didn't go so well either. I liked art and English. When we were in high school, all of the sudden talking about our favorite subjects turned into a heated rush to figure out what we were possibly about to do with our lives. I still liked art and English. So to put it simply, I listened to my proud alumni parents and wound up at the University of Missouri, the first journalism school in the world and one of the top journalism schools in the country. When I came here, I had not the slightest clue what journalism was. I thought I didn't like news. That sentence in itself is hilarious to me. News isn't something to prefer or dislike, I've come to learn, it is a responsibility. It interconnects our entire world in a constant story, with twists, turns, death, drama, war, and crises as well as heroism, success, and entertainment. It educates us and gives us something important and real to discuss. So that's news...but journalism is a much more complicated concept. In a broad sense, it is the strategic investigation and presentation of current ideas. I think the "current" part of journalism is what has been so grasping to me lately. It is constantly changing.
So how can I use my website as a form of journalism? I'm doing it right now. Whatever my fingers type away and send out for the world to see might not be considered "newsworthy," but it certainly contributes to the constant intertwining of ideas that is the Internet. And even if this blog only benefits myself, at least my thoughts are becoming part of a visual record instead of forming and evaporating one after another. So I'm going to practice finding my "voice." Some posts might be comical or satirical like my Campus Basement articles, while some might be insightful, informative, or critical. I'm not exactly sure what's most appropriate for a blog like this, but I just know I can use it as a collection of what I've always been interested in - art and English. |
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