Last Blog....

I can’t believe that this is my last blog for borderbeat.net. In just about two weeks, I will be a college graduate. I can’t believe it. They say during college you’ll have the time of your life and trust me, I have had the time of my life. I’ve been able to intern at the Arizona State Legislature (how many times have I mentioned that during while writing this blog?), working in the Office of Admissions, volunteering and being a part of the borderbeat.net staff under the direction of Jay Rochlin.

Last spring, when I signed up for this class, I was under the impression that we would be writing about green issues but shortly before the semester started; I was were informed that we would be producing borderbeat.net. The topic of the border is such a huge topic: from covering politics, art, music, food and I’m pretty positive that we did a great job in covering it. I look forward to seeing what future generations of what borderbeat staffs will do. Having my first story published, was amazing. It was a feeling that I can’t explain – trust me I emailed my entire family and all of my friends. It was also amazing to receive my “press pass”. This was a lot better than the cheesy pass that I received in high school for yearbook.

I never imaged that I would have spent 5+ hours in the photolab trying to cut audio for the Chimichanga story that I worked on with Chris Reed. Or traveling down to Nogales to cover St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic, interviewing David Tineo, Josefina Lizarraga and many others. I never thought that I would have the chance to work with a group of very talented, dedicated group of journalists

Special thanks to Jara Greenfield, my copy editor, thank you for all of your hard work in making all sure that my articles the very best that they could be.

My advice for future generations of bb is to take Jay’s advice of learning SoundSlides. Trust me it’s easy to learn the software before you are stressing out while trying to meet deadline during the first special project. Take a shot at learning final cut and when you are recording video make sure that the mic actually works and learn how to turn on the video camera before hand. Chris Reed and I learned that the hard way.

Have fun, enjoy borderbeat and remember to Bear Down!