Internship:
I was able to obtain an internship with Phi Beta Kappa as a writer for their online publication The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic society and you can find out more here). January through May I'll be writing a total of six articles for them and if any of them get published I'll be sure to post the links to them on here. One I hope will make it is the interview I got to conduct with Yale's physics professor A. Douglas Stone for winning the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for his book Einstein and the Quantum which I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
Journalism:
This semester I'm taking Intro to Journalism for my Communication Studies major and along with writing several articles we're also expected to keep a Twitter account that we tweet to at least five times a week. While personally I doubt Twitter is ever going to be an effective tool for serious journalistic efforts I have been enjoying the challenge of trying to write tempting headlines in 140 characters. If you're interested to see what I'm posting my journal Twitter account can be seen here.
Physics Conference:
Last weekend I had the chance to go to Purdue University for the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics which has several locations around the nation to make it attainable for the majority of women. While they did have a host of good speakers I was disappointed that they made a physics major sound so black and white: be a professor, CERN employee, or engineer. So much more can be done with a physics degree (like myself, a scientific writer!) so I hope in future years they can incorporate more of that. I went with a group of five other women from my college and we decorated matching shirts with this design for the back:
So I have never acted in a play, only worked behind the scenes as a lighting technician. While this has always been enough for me, a friend of mine is taking a directing class and wants me to act in the scene he plans to direct for the class. So within a month I will become Nora from A Doll's House and perform with one other person the last five pages of the play. I have no idea how this will turn out since I've never tried memorizing lines before but I feel it will be a great experience to become more comfortable in performing and being outgoing in front of people (on a side note, I'm also taking an opera workshop on Monday nights that will have me perform two scenes from two operas as the final so that will be a thrill as well!)
While this post probably isn't as entertaining as some of my others, now whenever I post a video or article from one of these activities you'll already be up-to-date on what they are references to. But this post has dragged on long enough, and I'll let you go with a link to a wonderful guitar cover of--you guessed it--"Let It Go".
Sungha Jung: "Let It Go"