CreComm: One Month Later

In recognition of one completed month of Creative Communications, why not celebrate with a toast... in blog form. 

I begin this recap with the scene in the newsroom this past Friday.  We were asked to pick a topic at the beginning of our journalism class for our third streeter.  A streeter is when we get two hours to go off campus, interview and get at least two quotes from two different people on our topic (no fellow CreCommers allowed) and then we have roughly an hour and a half to write an article.  Making matters worse is the infamous auto-fail.  An auto-fail is when we have a typo of a proper noun (for example, if we spell Mcdonalds like that instead of like this: Mc Donald's) or if we hand in our assignment late.  And this isn't a flexible due date.  If it's due at 1:50 pm and you hand it in at 1:51 pm, guess what?  An automatic 50% is coming off your mark.  That's the reality.

So, sitting at my computer at 1:41 pm with nine minutes remaining until my article was due, panic set in.  And I wasn't the only one.  The room started to buzz as people were sprinting to and from the printer and their computers - trying their best to avoid the aforementioned auto-fail.  If it wasn't for the gracious help from a couple of my classmates (thanks Ty and Alan), I made not have made it in time.  Whether or not I had any typo's remains to be seen...

As CreCommers, hard deadlines are something we deal with on a daily basis.  The point is to get us ready for the real world and what a better asset to have.  Employers know they're getting an employee who recognizes the importance of deadlines.

Creative Communications accepts roughly 75 students a year.  We're then divided into three sections.  I'm in section 2 and couldn't be happier about it.  We're a tight-knit group that get along very well.  Just ask Chris Petty at the beginning of every Writer's Craft class.  We're all like-minded people, some with university experience, others not, but in all we share similar qualities about us that make the experience at Red River a treat rather than a chore. 

The instructors in CreComm are all class acts.  If I'm not mistaken, they all have previous work experience in their area of expertise.  That makes them knowledgeable of the realities of the jobs we will eventually be applying to.  Not only that, but they all genuinely care about their students.  No more so than Forde Oliver, our Media Production instructor.  He's an extremely friendly man who would love to see all his students succeed.  It's too bad we only see him once a week!

Moving forward, I'm extremely excited for the opportunities this program will offer.  With a phenomenal group of classmates, an intelligent and caring group of instructors, and a campus with cutting edge technology and services, the next 20 months are shaping up to be some of the best of my life.

Cheers to CreComm!