If you are considering grad school, don’t expect it to be just like undergrad. Working towards a higher degree will be a completely different experience from your undergraduate life. Your social life and academic life will be at a constant battle. One thing that may not change is your emergency stock of frozen tv dinners. …
After having my last semester of undergraduate study cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, I wasn’t sure how I felt about spending my first six weeks of graduate school online. The transition from full-time residential learning to virtual learning hadn’t been the smoothest for anyone. How would I get to know the classmates I’d be …
By: Kylan Watson Initially when I first came to Syracuse University, I was admittedly a little nervous. I did not know what kind of cohort I would be working with for this year and a half. Would they be very competitive and unwilling to help a fellow classmate? Or worse, stand-offish and arrogant? But it …
By: Kylan Watson You may think boot camp is hard, but those six weeks in boot camp are nothing compared to the four months of work in the fall semester. Boot camp was six weeks of learning how to write for radio and using an audio recorder. For fall students must be prepared especially if …
After my first two semesters as a graduate student at Newhouse, I have learned that one of the only ways to survive the program is to have a strong support system. That means making friends with classmates and building close relationships. I am a Broadcast & Digital Journalism (BDJ) major in Newhouse, which is 13-month …
As I mentioned on a previous blog post, moving all the way from Puerto Rico to Syracuse was a whole new adventure for me. The change was huge, but I knew it had to be done if I wanted to fulfill my dream of becoming a broadcast journalist. Now it was time for the real …
On a hot and sunny Saturday afternoon in the middle of June, I arrived at my new apartment in Syracuse. I couldn’t have been more excited to finally move away from my home in Massachusetts and start a new chapter as a graduate student at the Newhouse School. As I got out of my car …
The bio video: resume of the future. One of the projects we worked on during boot camp was creating our own flashy resume. Now as a big-ass design nerd, I love working with Photoshop and InDesign no matter what the occasion is. Also, there is still much to be said for having an updated resume …
Everyone (well, mostly everyone in the Sports Concentration Emphasis) has the dream of one day being a football or basketball reporter, play-by-play announcer, analyst, host, or beat writer. I have the goals and aspirations to cover a sport that many consider to be a dying one—boxing. While it may seem like I’m at a disadvantage …