It’s dawned on me that this coming semester is my last as a university student. Blimey. It’s a miracle that I’ve managed to survived for as long as I have without going insane but what I do know, eh?
Anyway, the next two weeks will be spent finishing off my dissertation. I am currently at 4,500 words and need 3,500 more to complete it. It’s just a case of writing done all the ideas in my head into coherent sentences that are constructed in a way that flows well. It’s now gotten to the point where I’m not too fussed if I am right or wrong…I just want the thing to make sense. I’m going to show my girlfriend some of it before she goes off to Finland next week for a two-week holiday (which, incidentally, couldn’t have been better planned as, even though I adore her, I am free of distractions). Once it is handed in on the 4th February, I will be going to a pub in a state of relief. I don’t care what pub it is, just any pub will do that sells Peroni.
After that is all done and dusted, I have two things to work on. One is my work experience placement, which is going to be a demoralising experience just to find one, and then my final project. Even though my skills are more suited towards online journalism, I’m going to take a gamble and go for print. The way I think of it is that the print project will actually allow me to focus a lot more on what I’m trying to achieve with it – something that has been lacking in the previous two group online projects. I’ll have to re-acquaint myself with InDesign, but it’ll be worth it.
The other reason I’m skipping online is because I’m working on another project at the moment that is quite ambitious and may well take up a lot of my spare time in terms of organisation alone. I’m not willing to explain much at this point but all I’ll say is that we think it’s something that people will be interested in.
Before I go, if anyone is going to the Future Of News Meetup organised by the brilliant Adam Westbrook on Wednesday, feel free to say hi to me if you want to have a chat with a journalism student who couldn’t possibly predict the future of news. This should be an interesting evening and I’m really looking forward to chatting to new people, especially those are happen to be in a similar position to me.
