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Despite some beautiful Madison weather yesterday (almost 70 degrees!), I spent most of the day inside just reading because I feel like I have so much work to do! It was nice actually — I liked feeling like I was being a good student for a change. I anticipate another full day of reading [...]
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The start of a new semester brings a lot of things, but the most exciting thing for me is getting to buy all my new textbooks. It’s expensive, but it’s the one time of the year when I can binge on new books and actually feel justified.
This semester I’m taking a full graduate course load [...]
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I actually don’t have any updates on my reading life for this Sunday Salon, I think because things in my regular life (i.e. everything that’s not reading) have been sort of tough the last few days.
Over the summer I’ve been interning with the Madison city newspaper, The Capital Times (TCT). Like all newspapers, TCT and [...]
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I feel like I’ve acquired a ton of new books this week. Over the last few weeks I requested a lot of things from the library — the books on my shelves just haven’t been inspiring me. I’m on long wait lists for a few of them, but I guess the others were all in [...]
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Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. Not everyone is excited to celebrate though — Geoffrey K. Pullum, head of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh, takes on the famous book in this article — “50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice” — in The Chronicle of [...]
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Yesterday I spent the morning with my family celebrating Easter and the afternoon on a five hour bus trip back to Madison, so no time for a Sunday Salon. I did have a fabulous reading week, however, and wanted to write a little bit about that this morning before school takes hold.
Lu at Regular Rumniation [...]
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One of my 2009 goals was to blog more about journalism, and since the BIP Week 2 project was to brainstorm a new feature, I thought a journalism-related post would be perfect. Hence, J-School Journal, a weekly post about life as a journalism grad student. It still needs a better name, but anyway… This week [...]
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Weekly Geeks was the first blogging community activity I joined, so I’m excited to see it back. I’ve been helping out with some of the behind-the-scenes admin work to get things going again (mostly just maintaining the e-mail and that sort of thing), but I’m happy to be a part of it.
This week’s activity is [...]
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