One of the best parts of Newhouse is the school’s wide range of programs and degree tracks. While most of Newhouse’s graduate programs are one-year and professionally oriented, there is an exception: the Media Studies program. Media Studies is a two-year program, and it is very small, with only 12 students per cohort. As a …
We are at the halfway point of what is without a doubt the most unique semester of all time. The start of a new school year is always fun. Making new friends in classes, seeing old friends in classes, campus life resurrecting and the transition to fall are consistent characteristics of the start of the school …
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 …
Being a student at Newhouse is like having the meal ticket to the finest buffet of knowledge and advice. However, that buffet is only as good as what you can take from it. And in most cases your schedule will dictate how much you will be able to eat. So, if you find yourself with …
The great thing about the experience of going to school is what it exposes you too. For me one thing about being here at Newhouse is that it provided me the opportunity to do something that I consciously try to not do and that is editing. Editing is not my thing. I think it is …
To switch from in-person instruction to finishing the program online has been quite the experience. I am not sure if I would necessarily sign up for it as I can see why being in person has its benefits. However, I think what has helped is that I have previously interacted with all the students in …
Moving to online during the spring semester was quite the experience because it all happened so fast. It took a moment to realize that I while I was still going to be in school I wasn’t going to be able to move as freely as I once did and it also meant no longer seeing …
For the final project of my spring semester of graduate school, I struggled with finding a story to tell. Pre-covid, my final project was going to cover on how one Syracuse restaurant managed to gain global attention after CNN named it as one of the world’s best new restaurants for 2020 . Forced to return …
There is one phrase you will hear over and over at Newhouse: journalists don’t do math. Many students at Newhouse are wordsmiths, design wizzes, and/or photography gurus, so if you mention numbers, you will hear an audible groan from everyone within earshot. This is why so many journalism students run for the hills at the …