Sabrina Black

All right, all right. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon.

This term, my last term at the University of Oregon, has been my term of delayed epiphany. For so long I’ve resisted social media and social networking. I’ve had Facebook for quite some time, but I created an account when it was still for college students only (remember those days?). Now it’s seen as this great tool for marketing yourself and networking – which is great. However, it also ...

Though I have nothing to show for it yet, I have taken the plunge! I am now signed up as a participant in NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. During NaNoWriMo, ambitious writers set out during the month of November to write a 50,000 word novel. I’m already four days late in getting started and I have no idea when I will actually be able to begin writing my novel, nor do I have any concept for my novel. It’s a mystery to me, which I suppose is good because then it ...

It seems as though life is so overwhelming sometimes that to think any further than the end of the day is completely overwhelming. Even thinking as far as‘what’s for dinner’ can be a bit of a nightmare. 

Freelance journalists don’t have that kind of luxury. So instead of thinking about the end of the day, or even tomorrow, I have to think about what is happening four-to-six months from now. What will be a timely, important and captivating is...

At almost midnight, I stood in the lobby of a Holiday Inn with nine other members of the U.O. Bowling Club, and checked my email on my new iPod Touch. I had spent the whole weekend traveling to Reno, bowling in a collegiate tournament (because bowling nerds get to go to all of the fun places) and taking the wrong way home, which added about 2-3 hours to our drive. We didn't get free Internet access in the hotel we stayed at in Reno, so it had been almost three days since I had checked my emai...

I've noticed that I ramble on about this being my last year of undergrad studies and 'oh no, what now?' attitude. Time for a break from that to consider what is still to come.

So, what is still to come? The more I think about it, the more I look forward to having a little extra time to read. I used to love to read. It's how I got sucked into writing. During my middle school years, I spent a whole summer closed up in my room with a glass of lemonade on my nightstand and a bo...

After spending 16+ years in school, studying, working, multitasking - I am forced to decide what I am going to do with myself. This is a daunting task, and it seems every morning my choice has changed. Despite these changes, there is one constant: I want to write.

I am halfway through the last fall of my undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon, finishing my degree in journalism. The past few years have been overwhelming, rewarding and terrifying. But the closer I g...

Today was the first day of my last year as an undergrad.

I'm not quite sure what to think. I'm in a place where the work that I'm beginning to do isn't just for a class, it's for my career. It's a transitional period - a period of flux, and one in which I need to be taken seriously as a professional, but because I'm still a student, that's a difficult feat.

This is the the time when I pull it all together and show, through my writing, that I'm not just a st...

Anticipation, excitement and fear builds within me as I approach my final year of my college education. Several of my friends just graduated with degrees in journalism ranging from news editorial, magazine, public relations and electronic media and I can honestly say I have no idea what any of them are really doing right now.

Which leads me to ask myself: What will I do once I graduate?

A class I took last winter provided a couple of great websites to look ...

For the first time in over a year, I am taking a week-long vacation. No school. No homework. No work. No internship. Nothing.

It's quite liberating, actually.

At the same time, that is how I have ended up with three new blogs and the intention to post once a week to each one of them (maybe morethan once a week, depending on my class workload).

In particular, I want to blog about subjects such as internships, the journalism industry, transi...