Monday, April 28, 2008

Final Post: A Reflection of the Semester

Well, it's been a crazy, stressful, challenging, enlightening, exciting, tiring, and satisfying semester. Just 18 days until graduation and it is a bittersweet feeling. As relieved as I am for "no more papers, no more books... no more teacher's dirty looks," (kidding, Jay) I am sad that it is over. We've been nothing but students since we were four or five years old! Now we're 22 and we're supposed to just skip out into the real world and get "big kid jobs"...or just get a serving job at Benihana like I did!

Whatever I decide my "dream job" is, I do feel secure knowing now what I learned in my senior capstone class. Producing Borderbeat.net with ten other students and Professor Jay Rochlin was a completely new experience for me... having taken only one photography class and having a monkey's skill level for video and web design. But now I have my bearings and have a pretty impressive resume of computer skills to market to my potential employers. I never thought I'd be a competitive candidate in the world of online journalism, but with my Borderbeat experience this semester, I think I am.

I am proud of myself for learning all the brand-new things I was taught this semester and throughout my college career. My Borderbeat classmates are all talented and wonderful people and I look forward to seeing what they will produce in the future... and I hope they will see my future accomplishments as well. Keep an eye out for Lindsay Sparks!

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