Finished?

After an entire summer, I'm glad to conclude that I'm done with my internship. I'm not done blogging 'tho. It would be quite silly that I would stop there. I have so many other reflections and thoughts that I would like to write down about my internship experience.

I think that after an entire summer in Socorro, I can finally say that I spent the best summer in contributing the most I could to the school. On an unbelievable note, I actually have been noticed by students, faculty, and staff. People actually read the main Tech website!

During the weekend before school started, so many people came up to me and said that they enjoyed reading the articles I wrote online. They said that I write well. Hahaha. I wish I could say that I have that much confidence in myself. Actually, I do write well.

The things that I improved on the most was how to take down people's information and transform it into useful news items that people will understand. I'm glad I helped people be informed.

Limitations to Information

One of the limitations in writing press releases and articles is understanding the culture and the kind audience that I'm writing for.

For example, my job entails writing stories that bring good public relations to Tech. That doesn't mean I'm ignorant to the realities and actualities that face us. To be quite honest, we acknowledge them and find solutions to resolve them.

I guess when I was interviewing Ruth Stoddard, director of Residential Life, for an upcoming article about a speaker who will be coming to Socorro next month, she stopped from speaking to find a better way of explaining herself. I told her to not worry about what she was going to say, I would work out in trying to make it sound well. In addition, trying to assure her that as it goes on the Tech website, there are others who look at the article first before it goes on the web.

There is a slight bias towards Tech, but it is only as good intentioned as the next institution or company. Let the news companies take care of the controversial news.

Articles Articles Articles

The more and more I stay here, the more interesting these articles get to be.

I'm currently working on a couple of articles that bring Tech in light of the awesome things that they are doing.

Last week was a total waste of time. I was without a computer for a couple of days because ISD was replacing it with a better and faster machine. Additionally, we were shifting around the office layout to make things better to walk through.

In addition, in the middle of the week, I was unexpectedly summoned to go to a funeral for a family friend. Luckily, I got a bunch done that week. So far, I went to interview Dr. Newmark about the new technical communication journal called Xchange coming to New Mexico Tech. So far, that story is still a work in progress.

In other news, when my computer finally came, I was in charge of doing a couple of video editing projects. It was an interesting project.

I also locked myself out of the office with everything including my cell phone in the office. That really sucked. Otherwise, it was a learning experience--never leave your stuff in the office if you lose track of time.

I worked on an article about Chartwells and Student Affairs. The manager at Chartwells received an award that needed recognition and Brandon Samter, director of international and student exchange, was leaving to work for another college. It was pretty cool writing about something that was interesting.

So much for last week. It made up for itself for the stories I covered.