Life is full of experiences. However cheesy it may sound, it is what you choose to make of them that controls the course of your life. Week one of CSPA has come to a close today, and with it, all the experience and memories.
It has been so refreshing to see the honest passion of everyone at this workshop. The friendships from this workshop will stand for the rest of our lives. The knowledge will help us through each obstacle we face. But most importantly, the experiences of CSPA, and CSPA itself will live on forever in the many hearts it has touched.
Lesson One from CSPA: TIME MANAGEMENT, DEADLINES. (AKA THE JOURNALISM MASSACRE.)
Lesson Two: Photography by Chris Carlson.
“The only difference between dogs and journalists is dogs actually stop whining.” –Chris Carlson.
Lesson Three: Meeting the amazing people here.
Lesson Four: Covering a meeting.
“Anytime your boss asks you to cover an extra meeting you know you’ve done something wrong.” –ART AGUILAR. He was right.
Lesson Five: ‘The Wednesday Phenomenon.
Running around, getting facts, meeting K8 Middle-tonn, Emn’eem, Hands Solow, and experiencing real journalist life. Tons of stress, tons of fun.
Lesson Six: Running matter! Update after update. Running matter was a real life court case. Pretty spectacular.
Lesson Seven: Shut your lights off at 11:30, end of story.
Lesson Eight: TWITTER! Although I told myself I’d never get one, five minuets with Jessica Davis and there I was seven posts in.
Lesson Nine: Learn by doing. SLO’s motto, and I would say it applies to CSPA. We jump into the world of journalism within minuets of arrival!
Lesson Ten: The lessons never really stop. Ten lessons is nowhere near enough to cover what we learn about journalism or life.
Although the workshops lessons are based in journalism they extend far past the words on the page. This workshop helps teach its student about themselves and about the diversity of others. 24 different students with 24 different stories, yet we all seem to fit as one.