Posts Tagged ‘graduate school’

October 1, 2009 0

What’s your shutter speed?

By in Adventures, Arts, College life, Design, Photography

Skaneateles, NY — Last weekend a couple of copy editors and I participated in the annual Fall Workshop. I’ve probably tried to explain the purpose of the Workshop about 20 times and have never gotten it right. Here’s what the official Web site has to say: Each Fall more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students [...]

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September 12, 2009 0

Back at the Fair

By in Adventures, Arts, College life, Creative writing

Syracuse, NY — Last Friday I received my grades for the three stories I wrote on the Great New York State Fair. My Professor, Bob Lloyd, liked my story on Brian Ruth, the chainsaw carver. Here’s the story: The stocky man in black sunglasses maneuvers the hand truck up the small hill. Grunting under the [...]

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September 9, 2009 0

A Day at the Fair

By in Adventures, Arts, College life, Design, Music, Photography, Polaroid

Syracuse, NY — The semester my only class on Friday is New 617, Advanced News Reporting and Writing with Professor Bob Lloyd. It started at 8:20 a.m. On the first day of class we spent an hour and a half making introductions and going over the syllabus. Just as everything was going so smooth, professor [...]

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August 12, 2009 0

don't speak

By in Arts, College life, Creative writing

Syracuse, NY — For our last in class writing assignment in New 605 (newswriting) we had to go out into the city and observe a scene or person. We couldn’t ask questions or take pictures. All we could do was observe, take notes and return to lab to write a story about what we saw [...]

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