AU Experience
Carolyn Vo
KIPP: San Jose Collegiate
Milpitas, CA
Over the course of five days at the AU Summer Journalism Workshop, every moment has been captivating from making new friends to engaging in class and learning new ways to write for journalism. Each day brings new events, which are so memorable with what you can take away from the seminars and labs.
From this week, I was able to pick up information about writing tips for journalists who are still trying to provide their school with a newspaper. Learning that my school is not the only school that is strangely small in size is a relief because it helps me keep calm with knowing that I am not the only one in this type of situation. With this experience, the biggest thing that I am able to apply to my journalism class and newspaper is that you should always research more than enough times.
I learned that as a journalist you must be ethical, and you must always keep your word because you will have to defend your reasoning with hard facts that are reliable. This workshop helped bring more insight about how journalists should run their newspaper and staff.
Before attending this program, I expected it to be boring and uninteresting. It turned out to be a little bit of what I had expected. It got boring after the first day since we do not have any free time to just hang out or go to downtown, which is not that far away. Being a California girl and living in the city all the time affects the way I wish things could be like.
As the days began to progress, they started to feel a little better after finding new friends, as the only familiar faces that I knew were my friends. Feeling like an outcast was something that was expected, but once everyone else got to the program and got comfortable, there was a different vibe that I felt.
When seminars and labs began, everything just changed for me because I was more interested in acquiring so much knowledge about writing. As more information was taught, the more I felt like the newspaper at my school will be run with more stability. Having more faith in the school newspaper is the biggest characteristic that I have learned because the school’s newspaper is still emerging. It can get better. Even though not all the writers are experienced, we can improve with the help of workshop packets I will be bringing back to share.
Leaving this program, the biggest impact that it had on me was to just always follow your dream because all you have to do is work towards it and not give up.
KIPP: San Jose Collegiate
Milpitas, CA
Over the course of five days at the AU Summer Journalism Workshop, every moment has been captivating from making new friends to engaging in class and learning new ways to write for journalism. Each day brings new events, which are so memorable with what you can take away from the seminars and labs.
From this week, I was able to pick up information about writing tips for journalists who are still trying to provide their school with a newspaper. Learning that my school is not the only school that is strangely small in size is a relief because it helps me keep calm with knowing that I am not the only one in this type of situation. With this experience, the biggest thing that I am able to apply to my journalism class and newspaper is that you should always research more than enough times.
I learned that as a journalist you must be ethical, and you must always keep your word because you will have to defend your reasoning with hard facts that are reliable. This workshop helped bring more insight about how journalists should run their newspaper and staff.
Before attending this program, I expected it to be boring and uninteresting. It turned out to be a little bit of what I had expected. It got boring after the first day since we do not have any free time to just hang out or go to downtown, which is not that far away. Being a California girl and living in the city all the time affects the way I wish things could be like.
As the days began to progress, they started to feel a little better after finding new friends, as the only familiar faces that I knew were my friends. Feeling like an outcast was something that was expected, but once everyone else got to the program and got comfortable, there was a different vibe that I felt.
When seminars and labs began, everything just changed for me because I was more interested in acquiring so much knowledge about writing. As more information was taught, the more I felt like the newspaper at my school will be run with more stability. Having more faith in the school newspaper is the biggest characteristic that I have learned because the school’s newspaper is still emerging. It can get better. Even though not all the writers are experienced, we can improve with the help of workshop packets I will be bringing back to share.
Leaving this program, the biggest impact that it had on me was to just always follow your dream because all you have to do is work towards it and not give up.