final week.

What did I learn in the first journalism classes that I took? Well, I learned that I could be a journalist. I learned to be efficient in writing a story. The fact that mostly shook me up is when Brad told us, the class, that any of our article should take no longer than 2 hours (from searching informations to editing the final copy). I am pretty sure I am still way above the 2 hours, but I know the time I take to write an article have significantly decreased since september. I was particularly happy when I managed to write a good enough obituary of Holt Murray in a few hours during layout day.
I think I made some progress in my writing: in the way I structure my texts and paragraphs in particular. I still have some problem with grammars and sentence structures but if I pay more attention, I know it is going to be easier.
About layout itself, I very much enjoy organizing the pages in a sound and esthetic way. InDesign is an intuitive program that I liked to play with.
I still have a lot to learn and I am looking forward to step into the newsroom next year to share another semester with a, hopefully, as crazy team as this semester.