Category Archives: Things I’ve Learned in College
Everything I Learned at NYWICI’s 2016 Student Communications Career Conference
This past Saturday, November 5th I attended New York Women in Communications’ 2016 Student Communications Career Conference as Vice President of Ithaca College Women in Communications with the fabulous, motivated, and accomplished e-board and general body members of WIC. This was my fifth time … Continue reading
How I Live Now — The Lost Chapters
Right now I’m in a Honors Capstone class where we talk about our college experiences and what it’s like being in the honors program at Ithaca College and about society and the education system as a whole. Overall, it involves a … Continue reading
Multimodal Writing: A Technology Literacy Narrative
What is multimodal writing? Multimodal writing is writing that involves many different modes, whether that means text, visuals, video, audio, etc. Selfe says that “multimodal” itself means “exceeding the alphabetic and may include images, animations, color, words, music, and sound” … Continue reading
25 Things I Learned as an Intern at William Clark Associates Literary Agency
The Great Unwashed. Click through slideshow. For those who are just joining us, I’ve wanted to be a children’s book editor since I was 7 years old. (At this point I almost feel like it’s my mantra, my go-to, the … Continue reading
15 Things I Learned as a Teaching/Editorial Intern in the Trumansburg School District
When I was in middle/high school, I ran my own newsletter called Newsapalooza (click for link). It was for middle school students and I had a staff made up of some of my friends and my sister (who is 3 years … Continue reading
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(This is a first draft of something that I’m going to workshop in one of my classes.) Last year my friends and I decided to have a movie night and watch Castaway because it was on Netflix. I’d never seen it … Continue reading
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Everything I Learned at NYWICI’s Student Communications Career Conference 2015
This past Saturday I attended New York Women in Communications’ 2015 Student Communications Career Conference (say that three times fast!). My Aunt Julie introduced NYWICI to me, and I’ve been a member since I was a junior in high school and … Continue reading
My Bright Place
The summer of 2014 was an extremely… important and defining summer for me. It was the summer I interned at Random House in their children’s division, for one thing. It was the summer I fully realized that book publishing and being … Continue reading
25 Things I Learned as a Teaching/Editorial Intern at Writopia— As a Writer, a Teacher and in General
This summer I had the privilege of working at Writopia, a non-profit that runs writing workshops for kids ages 6 to 18, in Katonah/Hartsdale, New York, and I wrote a list summarizing what I learned there. I was a teaching and editorial intern– … Continue reading
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Amanda Under Construction 