Disney on Ice

  So we never got to eat Mickey Mouse Pancakes. But that’s not to say our trip to Orlando wasn’t a success. In fact, I’m quite pleased with everything our group ate (especially Colin’s Birthday Flan). And even more important than the food, we learned a great amount that we’ve already started applying at our [...]

We have an excess of manliness in the Comm center right now.

For some reason, I felt really compelled to put a quote from Danny Boyle’s excellent film Sunshine as my title. There you go. So with a full week now to think about my experience in Orlando, I’ve got a few observations. I really enjoyed hanging out with the other Pendulum staff members that went to Orlando with [...]

Passing on the torch

Normally when I come back from conventions I feel like it is time for a marathon. I have to practice what I learned and figure out the best way to implement it. For the three seniors (anna, sam and me) coming back from Orlando has been more of a fast paced sprint as part of [...]

And it’s over

Going into the convention, I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to take away from it. Every convention is different, and every session has a chance to be completely fantastic or completely redundant. It all came down to choosing wisely. Now that I’m home, though, I can see exactly what I took from it, [...]

ACP 2011: In the hindsight of a first year attendee

Among the lessons I’ve learned and experiences in journalism I’ve had since being on staff at The Pendulum is the ACP/CMA 2011 conference. Having never been to a college media conference before last week, I went into with little more than the knowledge and experiences I’ve gained from being a student at Elon and a [...]

One week later…

It feels like a year has passed between last Sunday and now. I could blame the massive workload, the paper that needed to be produced the next day, or the large quantities of anti-sinus infection, anti-bronchitis medications that have been consumed for the last few days. I think it’s probably a little of both. I [...]

Reflections on a Great Trip

This time last week, I was somewhere in the air on my way back to Elon after a great trip to Orlando. It’s crazy to think that it has already been a week since we concluded our time at the ACP/CMA 2011 conference and returned to the busy schedule of being a college-student. Though this [...]

In Reflection: ACP/CMA Convention 2011

So, it’s been a whole week since I got off the plane from Orlando from the ACP/CMA Convention. Crazy how time flies. Anyway, attending the convention was an amazing experience. Having never attended a conference before, I really wasn’t too sure what to expect, but I’m really glad I had this opportunity to attend the [...]

What to Do When Things Get Traumatic

I was going to go to a session called “WARNING: You Don’t Want to Be a Sportswriter,” but the guy never showed up. Sad day. So I went around looking for a session and found one called “What to Do When Things Go Wrong.” It was about covering traumatic events like deaths of students and [...]

We’re Talking! To People! And Giving Them Our Twitter Handles!

The second session I attended today was about student media uses of social media such as Twitter and Facebook. There were three panelists. One was the Online Editor for The Daily Tar Heel and the other two were The Pendulum’s very own Sam Calvert (online managing editor) and Jeffery Stern (online editor-in-chief). There were some [...]