The UVA Media Studies Class of 2008
Congratulations to Danielle Marisa Blundell, Michael Hagos, Wesley Reed Harris, Ashley Joost, Jenna Martin, Joe Mier, and Mica Swyers, 7 of the 18 students selected for the highly competitive Media Studies major at the University of Virginia that I had the good fortune to teach in an introductory major class last fall.
Happily, I’ve taught many thoughtful, engaged members of the Virginia community in the past few years. Former students are studying abroad, accepting internships and invitations to join other departments, and publishing online and elsewhere. I’m also grateful to the surrounding wordsmiths and webgeeks that have taught and continue to teach me.
Today, for obvious calendrical reasons, is kthread Delurker Day. Please, especially if you haven’t before, comment on this post and share your news.
*Note: due to shy potential Delurkers, Delurking Day has been expanded to Delurking Week.
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006, 8:41 am * Filed in Pedagogy, Uncategorized. * . Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
April 11th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Kristen,
No wonder your students are doing well. I am always impressed by your design aesthetics, simplicity and accuracy. Really like the new blog and additions to the site. Please contact me as I am looking into a new website.
April 11th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Hi Kristen,
The end of this semester is beginning to look like the start of some stellar things that I still can’t really believe might come true. I’m heading to NYC soon for an interview in the web department of NYLON magazine (nylonmag.com and guys.nylonmag.com). I also plan to apply for the webmaster position at the Women’s Center (womenscenter.virginia.edu) and will be finishing up my web internship at iris magazine here at UVA. As you probably have heard, iris is going on some sort of vague “hiatus” for a semester or two, but I’m trying my best to make contact with the WC and figure out what the bloddy is going down. Everything else is rocking out and I’m trying not to count my chickens. Right now the biggest problem on my plate is-will I get a ticket to see Neko tonight? Hope all is well with you. And for everyone else: don’t forget to come to iris magazine’s FAITH issue release party this THURSDAY from 7-10 pm at the TEA BAZAAR. See you then.
oh yea, please dont judge me on the zaniness or lack thereof in my website, i am planning a big rehaul so look out for that. peace-
April 11th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Hey Kristen,
website looks great and very awesome about your students. Not too much to report-things are going great just crazy rehearsing for the next 3 weeks…as I am sure you are crazy as well with the end of the semester getting nearer. We found an apartment that is great and we are signing the leasing contract on thursday-so that’s one thing to check off the list. Besides that, nothin else is new. Hope all is well with you. love you
April 11th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
K-dog – you are awesome. You had to have been raised by a truly incredible set of parents to accomplish all that you have done (and to have such brain power!!!)
Keep truckin!! Love D-Dog
April 11th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Congrats to the 7 who made the major! Anyways, talk about timing: I just finished coding and validating a website to use up my lonely UVA server space when I decided to check my e-mail… I’m very much just looking forward to the end of the semester and awaiting a response from Newcomb on my application for a job there next semester as either a graphic designer or a projectionist, but this Summer Web Intensive has me intrigued as well. I’ll have to figure out if I can be in Charlottesville for all 4 weeks of the class. I’ve also joined the Gamers Club’s officers as a co-webmaster, which is pretty exciting as we already have a really nice site (http://uvagamers.com/) and I’ve been meaning to teach myself PHP over the summer anyways. The new version of the website looks great and browsing through all those Flickr photos makes me really wish that I had taken your ENWR class…
April 11th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Hey Kristen,
Thanks for the e-mail. Sad to say, my life is, like, 138902189307489327432(times pi) less exciting and media-related that everyone else’s who has posted. (Also, my grammar is about five times worse.) This summer, I’m going to work at the Virginia State Bar, pretty much just doing odd jobs and planning for their annual conference. And maybe, I’ll make a new montage or something. I also am applying for the job at Newcomb as graphic design assistant, but it looks like there is some my-ass kicking to be done. Enough with the self-deprecating commments, though. Guide service is slowly taking over my life in an unavoidable and somewhat frightening sort of way, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I’m initiated at the end of April.
Anyway, back to homework.
micamicamicamicamica
April 11th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Amanda, do join the web intensive. Your mad CSS skills and art will be appreciated. Mica, as long as you don’t start popping your collar, I think things are okay.
April 12th, 2006 at 9:06 am
Hey Kristen–
I’m glad to see that you expanded de-lurking day into a week, since I forgot to comment yesterday. I might soon need your web skills to upgrade my blog–which has become a bit visually unwieldy.