Goodbye Student Teaching, Hello Graduation!
My students were so amazing. I finished student teaching on May 10th, and as much of an adjustment as it was to get into the swing of ..
Publishing Parties
My formal unit is almost complete. My students have reflected on their writing, rewritten one selected work, reviewed it with a friend..
Lisagor Awards
I went to my first journalism awards ceremony last week. My friend Reema Amin who is also in the Journalism MA program, was nominated ..
Spring Semester is Over!
When you read this, I will be done with Spring semester.
WOOOOOOO!!!! I’d look more excited in that picture if I wasn’t sick right ..
New Job & Stuff
Look at me in that suit!
A few weeks ago I interviewed for the position Associate Director of Creative Writing for the English Depa..
What Classes Will I Take?
That’s my cat, Sassy. And that’s Montaigne, who you will read and get very familiar with, during your first semester at Columbia, in t..
Party at David’s and IMDB credit
As the semester is drawing to a close, David McHugh (program director of the Music Composition for the Screen MFA) invited all of the ..
In Memorium: Chris Drew
Chris Drew; photo credit Nancy Bechtol
On Sunday, April 28, I attended “A Life Celebration Memorial for Christopher Drew.” He passed ..
C2E2!!
What a crazy busy weekend that was! On Friday, I met up with the Columbia Whovians and we headed into day one at C2E2, the Chicago Com..
First Year in Review
Tomorrow I will have my final presentation of the year, and with that presentation I will have pretty much completed my first year in th..