All-nighters. Who thought this was a good idea?

In case you didn't know:

• I'm a community and politics reporter in Chicago until the middle of December.
• I have three final projects due and no time to do them.
• Andy and I think we'll be moving to South America after I graduate next year.
• I'm almost halfway through grad school.
• Next summer, I'll either be working for a newspaper abroad or for the New ( Read more... )

I think you are the best person in the world and am glad to have discovered you.

My vacation from school is coming to an end ( Read more... )

3.850!

 This week will be the last week of my first quarter at Medill. I have finals all day on Monday and Tuesday and then my group's big project is due on Thursday with a final presentation on Friday morning. After a conference with my newswriting professor (who also happens to be my academic advisor) at which I will receive my grade for the course, I ( Read more... )

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We found an apartment. Thank God. It's a super-cheap yet nice place in Edgewater (right near the El train stop) and it comes with a parking spot, heat, hot water and AC. It's got lots of closets and it's within walking distance to the supermarket and all the jazz.

Yesterday, we reserved the truck so we can drive 15 hours across the country, exactly ( Read more... )

Andy and I set a date for the move (June 17). We're going to have to drive overnight because, even if we left at some ungodly hour of the morning like 3 a.m., we still wouldn't arrive until 6 at night which seems like it might be just a tad too late in the day to unpack an entire truck. So, we're leaving on a Tuesday, arriving in Chicago on ( Read more... )

So, for the last month or so, I've been planning a move to the DC/Northern Virginia. I was accepted to American Univeristy for their 12-month journalism program that begins in July and last week, they offered me 32,000 of the 39,000 I needed to attend their college ( Read more... )