Week 1 Check-In

Alright, so this is my first official weekly check in…and there are so many more to come. –dun dun…DUUUNNN- Because this was the first week of classes, obviously I went to class. This semester I am in Sound Recording, British Cinema, Leadership, Visions of course, and I am also in an internship with etc. media. Though I wasn’t able to start at etc. this week, I officially begin on Tuesday and am excited to get more experience in production. I too am the Vice President for Wilmington Paranormal Research, so I am happily keeping up with that amid all of the other craziness. After class on Tuesday I read the job manual along with the descriptions, and though I learned yesterday that I read last semester’s because I couldn’t find the others, Kevin showed me where to find the correct ones. Since this was the first time I read what I was supposed to be doing, the descriptions seemed very overwhelming at first sight. However, I do hope that once we get more into the flow of things, though we will still be constantly busy, it will be manageable. Thus far I am liking all of my classes, and it’s looking to be a busy but great semester! I even graded the abstracts on Thursday, and though some of them were longer than others because they actually adhered to the word count, it only took me about an hour and a half total. I had to leave about midway through to get to a meeting with Kevin and Daryl, but overall it wasn’t too bad. Programming as a whole seems to be dare I say…fun. Of course there will be several overwhelming days, but I think it’s cool just how much Visions accomplishes. Daryl and I were assigned ten films each from the submissions to input information for. My section was very diverse in the schools from which the students were from, with one person from Poland. Yesterday, in all honesty, I didn’t do much for Visions except look over the blogs of some of our staff members to make sure mine was somewhat on the right track. Today though I shared the Cinemixer event with 25 friends on Facebook and am going to read the article “Festivals of Their Own.” I am still having technical issues with Trello as well, so I’m planning on tinkering with it some more today to see if I can get it to cooperate with me. Now, back to work I go!