Nina Ruff | Marginalia

the cohort. our last shindig together.

Gee whiz.

18 months have come and gone. My cohort and I have chased politicians and parents,..

Wow wow wow. In three weeks I’ll have completed (super duper hopefully) what I set out to do just a year and a half ago.

Thoug..

Pretty sure I haven’t had less than ten tabs open in ages.

I’ve said quite a bit this semester. Pretty much all of it probably fits in..

Journals from my students–taking a break from thesis work really just means doing other work.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

Here I am smack in th..

Some days, I scroll down my Facebook feed and gawk at all of my childhood friends who are now allowed to teach children. MY friends. T..

Bitmoji Me trying to figure out how to make my portfolio POP.

If I was someone who lost their hair when I was stressed, I would’ve gon..

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So you’re starting your first semester of graduate journalism. It’s lit.

An actual photo of me in Chicago missing Texas. Photo credit: Nickelodeon

As if the last two years weren’t chocked full of enough big ..

One of the highlights of my semester came when a classmate and I got to interview a group of ex-offenders and then attend their re-entry ..

Made the drive from Chicago to Austin, TX last week. This here is somewhere in Arkansas? Texas? Who knows!

This summer, I’m taking a r..