O the weather outside is frightful....

Today the weather was crazy! When I left for class at 7:30 a.m. it was around 60 degrees and beautiful.  By the time I went outside to go get some food for lunch at Brady, it had dropped at least 20 degrees and the wind was blowing hard.  Soon after it was time to head to capstone and walking past the doors, I noticed little balls of ice/sleet coming down.  Several classmates were walking into the building and they said it felt like "rock salt falling out of the sky." All I know is that I can't wait til spring gets here and its around 65 degrees all the time! 

Here's a picture of the ice balls that were falling down.  It's not the best picture, but it should give you an idea of what they looked like.  I took it while walking back to my car.  Brr!!!

Blog Assignment

This blog http://americasnexttopfashion.blogspot.com/ is one written by a Ag Journalism graduate from MU. This is a blog that is for fun rather than informative. She can express her views about fashion and the entertainment community freely and let others be entertained by it. I enjoy checking in on it every once in awhile to see if anything has been updated, just for the entertainment. It's a good place to go when you need to take a break if you are interested in these things.

I think blogs are interesting in the way they provide information. This particular blog provides some information about fashion, but no information that is timely and newsworthy. However, some blogs do provide information that could be comparable to CNN or Fox News. This causes the conflict that comes up often when concerning blogs: Who are the journalists?

I personally believe that blogs should be used for more of a recreational use instead of informative use. If you decide to go to someone's blog to find out the latest news, its hard to know if it is going to be accurate or not. Bloggers don't have editors standing over their shoulders telling them to accuracy check their information or get another source. I don't think that everyone who has a blog is a journalist. I think if its a blog produced by a newspaper or other news outlet, then it is credible, but others aren't. Blogs like the one that I chose for this assignment is an example of the type of blogs that I feel should be created. It gives someone a place to write about something they are interested in and express their opinion. It provides links to the fashion items that it talks about and it doesn't leave anyone asking where the information came from.

Whew!

Today was the last day of the first week of school.. Only 15 more weeks to go until SUMMER! yay! I get to go home for the summer and then work for AAEA again and go to Tampa.  I can't wait.  This semester is going to be a long one.  Of course I put off all the classes that I didn't want to take and its catching up with me.  Chemistry and Statistics.. ick!  

This weekend is Founder's Weekend for my sorority and I'm excited to see everyone, but also looking forward for Saturday over with.  Its been alot of work to get everything planned and I'm ready to focus on Symposium.  

Welp, its time to get out of here.. Til next time.. :)

My New Blog

This is my first post to my new blog in my Agricultural Journalism senior capstone class.  I'm not sure about all this blogging stuff, but I do enjoy to read others blogs.  So I guess I will try out a blog myself.  In class, we are working on convergence journalism. 

Hopefully maybe... after this class is over, I will continue to blog.  I think its a good way practice "journalism" after my college experience.  It will give me something to look forward to each day and help me clear my mind.  

Hope you enjoy the new blog! :)