Communications | Marginalia

Now that I’m over two-thirds of the way finished with my first semester of graduate school, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve learn..

Hey, y’all. I’m Shelby Hawkins, a Civic Media student at Columbia College Chicago, a reporter at AustinTalks, a stylist at J. Crew and as..

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 ..