Attendance at the latest Student Success Fee forum increased to 28 students on Wednesday — a marked increase from the lone attendee at the previous forum. Although a portion of the audience was made up of students required to attend…
iJournalist, hear me text
Looking around the newsroom today I noticed something: every Mustang Daily nightly staff member has an iPhone, except me. How this happened, I have no clue. One day I’m sitting around and everyone has all their different non-smart phone cells…
Administration intimidation
I have a healthy fear of authority. This can definitely get in the way when you’re in journalism, so most of the time I just squash it down, and stash it somewhere quick before someone with any authority notices. But…
It's no wonder I live on coffee
Just a note: This was written before Thanksgiving break because I’m a bit of a slacker some weeks, so enjoy the pre-holiday stress 🙂 I failed to write a blog last week (and the week before) for the very same…
Word on the Street: Bucket List Edition
What’s on your bucket list? Cal Poly students tell what classes every student should take, what sporting events they shouldn’t miss and more.
Mustang Daily goes to Florida
Last week, the managing editor and I, accompanied by our advertising coordinator Stephanie Murawski, traveled to Orlando for the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention. Here we learned about some awesome design, inventive reporting and a couple of new ways to…
Do Mustang Daily editors dream of newsprint sheep?
I remember my first Mustang Daily dream: I was sitting at my desk, specifically reserved for the news editor, focusing on the computer intently. On the screen were that day’s pages, which I was laying out. And that was it.…
Who you gonna call?
Alpha phi. Yes, we’re all talking about it (or at least those of you who managed to get ahold of a newspaper today before they all disappeared). The school starts an official investigation into a freshman female going to the…
Comments welcome
OK, so it’s amazingly ironic that in my last blog post about mistakes, I had the unfortunate luck to have written “countries” instead of “country’s.” And thank you to the commenter who mentioned it. I actually do appreciate it when…
miSt@kes happpen … but we fix them
So I’m not the best blogger in the world. Actually, I’ve never really blogged before this exact moment, so sitting down to write this is a little daunting. First off, I’d like to say, “Hi” to everybody (and anybody) reading…
Rules are made to be … followed
I’m not a rule breaker at all. There’s no question about it. Jaywalking across a street stresses me out so much that I generally need an entire bottle of Valium afterward — I’m that neurotic about rules. But for all…