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How to Turn Academic Skills into Professional Skills
As a student, I am often forced to leave the classroom to find “job experience”, however there are many skills that we learn in class which can transfer to a professional environment. 1. Diligently...
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Advice from #WWUPopMIC
Yesterday, I attended the 3rd annual Pop Music Industry Conference at Western Washington University (#WWUPopMIC). It was an absolutely amazing experience – the panelists were well-prepared and did a...
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Motto of the Quarter: “I can’t be 100% all the time.”
I am not going to lie, I’ve been pretty damn successful this quarter – in my academic, professional and social lives. I have also felt great. #Winning. With all of that (terribly humble dialogue) said,...
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Media Literacy 101 – Research in Popular Articles
I just finished taking the Communication Research Methods 398 course required by my Communication major. I can tell you that it was fairly boring (except for the professor who was absolutely...
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Guest Post: Reflecting on the 48-Hour Film Festival experience
Earlier this month, I had the fantastic experience of participating in Western Washington University’s first-ever 48-Hour Film Festival. I had wanted to get involved in visual storytelling for a long...
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Oh Yeah, I Embrace Failure…And What?!
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields If I have learned anything in my short time on this earth, it is that success and failure go...
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Handling Future Tripping
Hello and happy new year to all! I am finally getting used writing 2013 done instead of 2012 and boy does it feel good. This year, is a big one for me. I am in my last quarter of undergraduate...
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“Three Things”– What I Learned from Bill Miller
Last night, I attended an event on Western’s campus on Effective Business Communications. The talk was apart of a series of Professional Readiness workshops, put on by the College of Business and...
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The Ethics of BP’s Tourism Advertisements
I recently wrote a research paper on the ethics of BP’s tourism advertisements, post oil spill that is. I really enjoyed the relevancy of the topic, but I found that it was really hard to access their...
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