For Grant, this summer was a quick turn-around.
We drove back from Oregon, arriving in Garland on a Saturday, by Sunday afternoon, he was driving back to Missouri for Summer School. Grant had registered for a particular journalism course that was essentially and internship at The Missourian, the Columbia daily newspaper. He was to work as a reporter starting at the end of June, getting experience with press deadlines, editors and the world of print. He was one of about a dozen students on staff for the last 6 weeks of the summer, and the only one who requested a sports beat.
Once in town, be remade his wardrobe to bring it up to professional standards and showed up at 9 in the morning to go over the budget with the senior staff, discuss the upcoming features and to get his assignments. For his efforts he will receive real world experience, college credit hours but no pay.
He has written on Missouri track and field club hosting a regional meet, ultimate frisbee, a moonlight basketball program and a small piece on the reintroduction of elk back into Missouri, which was picked up by the Associated Press Wire Service (AP). He was also assigned to cover a story about a woman falling out of a second story window (now how does that happen? alcohol). Grant grasps that it is a privilege to write stories, an attitude which has not gone unnoticed by at least some of his editors.
Between press deadlines, he has been busy of late finding a new place for him and his 2 roommates to live for the Fall. They selected a place about 5 blocks from campus, an unfurnished 3 BR. So he has been researching the price and value of a bed and renter's insurance (required by his lease). There was a 5-day gap between when his last lease expired and when his new lease allowed for move-in. So, he and his roommate did a bit of couch surfing in the interim.
He is expecting to be back in Dallas briefly before the new Fall Term gets started. Once back in Columbia, he is planning on co-hosting a Sunday night, 2 hour radio show with one of his roommates on KCOU, Mizzou's campus radio station.
That's a wrap.
We drove back from Oregon, arriving in Garland on a Saturday, by Sunday afternoon, he was driving back to Missouri for Summer School. Grant had registered for a particular journalism course that was essentially and internship at The Missourian, the Columbia daily newspaper. He was to work as a reporter starting at the end of June, getting experience with press deadlines, editors and the world of print. He was one of about a dozen students on staff for the last 6 weeks of the summer, and the only one who requested a sports beat.
Once in town, be remade his wardrobe to bring it up to professional standards and showed up at 9 in the morning to go over the budget with the senior staff, discuss the upcoming features and to get his assignments. For his efforts he will receive real world experience, college credit hours but no pay.
He has written on Missouri track and field club hosting a regional meet, ultimate frisbee, a moonlight basketball program and a small piece on the reintroduction of elk back into Missouri, which was picked up by the Associated Press Wire Service (AP). He was also assigned to cover a story about a woman falling out of a second story window (now how does that happen? alcohol). Grant grasps that it is a privilege to write stories, an attitude which has not gone unnoticed by at least some of his editors.
Between press deadlines, he has been busy of late finding a new place for him and his 2 roommates to live for the Fall. They selected a place about 5 blocks from campus, an unfurnished 3 BR. So he has been researching the price and value of a bed and renter's insurance (required by his lease). There was a 5-day gap between when his last lease expired and when his new lease allowed for move-in. So, he and his roommate did a bit of couch surfing in the interim.
He is expecting to be back in Dallas briefly before the new Fall Term gets started. Once back in Columbia, he is planning on co-hosting a Sunday night, 2 hour radio show with one of his roommates on KCOU, Mizzou's campus radio station.
That's a wrap.
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