Washington Media Institute students, officially set loose on an unsuspecting city
I'll start at the end of the day: My roomie D.J. is SUPER PISSED now because his wrote his whole blog post on Tumblr and it DISAPPEARED because our apartment's internet is stupid.
"OMGGGGGG. Are you kitting me right meow?" he groans, at the verge of tears (I'm exaggerating, but he did say that).
Here's the thing — he thought it's safe on Tumblr and deleted the Word file. Poor fella. Now he's gotta rewrite everything.
Anyway, today's my first time meeting everyone enrolled at the Washington Media Institute because, well, guess what, it's orientation week! We met in the lobby at 9:30 a.m., joined WMI Director Amos Gelb in a classroom in the University of the District of Columbia and were introduced to this summer's coursework, which does not include our internships (Mon-Thurs). We'll be doing a ton of multimedia projects on Tuesday nights and Fridays, and Amos has big-shot, influential speakers scheduled to come in and speak to us almost every other week.
The rest of the interns/WMI students are truly amazing people — very friendly; a lot of drive and ambition. And a very talented crew too, chosen from up to 400 applicants, Amos said. We're only starting work next Monday, and this week is supposed to prep us for what's to come.
After a few hours spent in class getting acquainted and munching on Potbelly sandwiches, we were set on making the trip to the Newseum (as the name implies, it's the national news museum of the U.S.). And oh, the weather decided to poop on our first official day out and about in downtown D.C., and will apparently continue to do so for the rest of the week. Grumble.
The Newseum is all kinds of awe-inspiring. We watched a 4-D movie about the history of news in the U.S. — it was great, although I actually had more fun listening to the girls behind me squeal and scream as the seats moved whenever a shot was fired or when a bomb went off. :) Outside the theaters, much of my time was spent gazing at the intricacies of a few Berlin wall sections, a terribly mangled antenna from NYC's World Trade Center's North Tower (9/11) and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs (I had my hand cupped over my mouth and mouthing OMG for much of the gruesome exhibit).
That pretty much sums up my day! I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
"OMGGGGGG. Are you kitting me right meow?" he groans, at the verge of tears (I'm exaggerating, but he did say that).
Here's the thing — he thought it's safe on Tumblr and deleted the Word file. Poor fella. Now he's gotta rewrite everything.
Anyway, today's my first time meeting everyone enrolled at the Washington Media Institute because, well, guess what, it's orientation week! We met in the lobby at 9:30 a.m., joined WMI Director Amos Gelb in a classroom in the University of the District of Columbia and were introduced to this summer's coursework, which does not include our internships (Mon-Thurs). We'll be doing a ton of multimedia projects on Tuesday nights and Fridays, and Amos has big-shot, influential speakers scheduled to come in and speak to us almost every other week.
The rest of the interns/WMI students are truly amazing people — very friendly; a lot of drive and ambition. And a very talented crew too, chosen from up to 400 applicants, Amos said. We're only starting work next Monday, and this week is supposed to prep us for what's to come.
After a few hours spent in class getting acquainted and munching on Potbelly sandwiches, we were set on making the trip to the Newseum (as the name implies, it's the national news museum of the U.S.). And oh, the weather decided to poop on our first official day out and about in downtown D.C., and will apparently continue to do so for the rest of the week. Grumble.
The Newseum is all kinds of awe-inspiring. We watched a 4-D movie about the history of news in the U.S. — it was great, although I actually had more fun listening to the girls behind me squeal and scream as the seats moved whenever a shot was fired or when a bomb went off. :) Outside the theaters, much of my time was spent gazing at the intricacies of a few Berlin wall sections, a terribly mangled antenna from NYC's World Trade Center's North Tower (9/11) and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs (I had my hand cupped over my mouth and mouthing OMG for much of the gruesome exhibit).
That pretty much sums up my day! I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
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