Sunday, November 30, 2008

Dealing with interviews

Interviews can be as easy as posting a letter. But it can also be frustrating and puzzling. You never know which it would be.

One of my articles on the last issue of the Voice didn't work out as I planned. So I had to fill out with a different article that I had to write the day of the layout on thursday. The article was an obituary of a former Cabrillo instructors. Although I couldn't get in touch with the intructors via phones, I managed to track one on campus, and finally got a quick interview that saved the article.
The interview itself was pleasant and efficient. I got all the information I needed and the article turned out to be ok.

For this next issue of Dec. 8, I am afraid the content of my article is not going to be great. I interviewed an instructor at a Watsonville adult education school about his course on computer assembly and repair. Although the subject is great, when I actually interviewed the teacher, the information I retrieved wasn't really relevant.
We had limited time, so I had questions prepared in advance. But unfortunately, because I was unable to organize the time of the answers, we lost of time, and I could not ask the questions that really matters. So now my article is basically just the history of the class. Which I think is going to put everyone to sleep.