Week 1: Back from Christmas break. Not excited to be back. I wish break was longer. Oh well, time to return to adult life and put in work for the semester. I attended my second press conference ever. This one introduced the new football coach for the football team. It was pretty exciting!
Week 2: This week was pretty slow. I helped RaNeeka with Bison Beat for the first time. I am happy that she is giving me more assignments.
Week 3: RaNeeka told me to breakdown the magazine articles by majors. We really don’t cover Fine Arts a lot. I hope that can change. RaNeeka told me that she would brief me on a solo project. I can’t to hear what’s in store.
Week 4: Found the student that would be featured on the front cover of the Howard Giving Newsletter. His name is Tré Dawson. He’s a sophomore majoring in finance from New Orleans. Downside of the week was having to condense donors’ donation announcements. Too much technical and confusing language.
Week 5: The 2015-2016 annual reports were delivered this week. I had to walk and hand deliver to all the deans and colleges located on the main, the provost, and the president. What a workout! I received more obituaries. Time to prepare for the summer issue.
Week 6: Conducted the interview with Tré. It went really well. He was very open about his background and experiences. He made the interview process go smoothly. I started working on the article. I hope to send my first draft to RaNeeka this weekend.
Week 7: Met with RaNeeka. She loved my article and expressed her happiness with my work. I submitted by edits and finished the article. In addition, I had to purpose write-ups on ASB sites for the magazine and on Mark Mason, the 2017 Convocation speaker.
Week 8: RaNeeka was out this week for a trip to see her family. On Monday, I teamed with Justin Knight to cover the SOB luncheon where President Frederick announced that SOB is partnering with a minority-owned cybersecurity company. This week was also Charter Day. Stephanie had me produce a Convocation recap video. It was a little frustrating because we were given different set of directions of where to set up the camera. Everything worked out in the end.
Week 9: RaNeeka returned. However, I was still assisting Stephanie and Ahmed, the film student, with editing the recap video. I was nervous to edit a video that would be used for the University. I am not sure if I’m cut out for this.
Week 10: Just returned from spring break. Can I go back to Miami already? Luckily, this was a slow week. I only had to file obituaries and compose Bison Bookshelf for the Summer ’17 issue.
Week 11: This week RaNeeka sent me the production schedule for the Summer/Fall ‘17 issue.
She assigned a story to me on the importance of student activism on HBCU campuses. She also told me that President Frederick would be keeping a close eye on this story. Pressure is on!!
Week 12: This was one of the hardest weeks. Going through an emotional battle. I hope I can overcome it and push through.
Week 13: Still figuring out an angle for this activism story. In the meantime, I went out and interviewed students to include in the Bison Beat for this month.
Week 14: Turned in my student activism story. One burden lifted off my shoulders. I hope RaNeeka likes it. Finals are approaching, so I am happy I am finally done with the article.
Week 15: This was RaNeeka’s final week. She is going on maternity leave. I enjoyed working with her for the last seven months. Wow, time sure does fly!
Week 16: This week was very stressful with finals and completing all these projects. Even though it was my last official week in the office, I still have to write my article for the senior series for Commencement. I can’t wait for summer to be here.
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