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AndreaGenevieve

D.C. & Me

Hello Future SIWJ Students,

Here is a little video I made that briefly describes my semester and how much I grew from the experiences I had here.

There is much to be learned and get exposed to but you must keep an open mind, sharp eye, and a thirst to absorb what you DON'T know. Trust me, you don't know it all so just accept that you are a tiny guppy in a large ocean and learn from it. If you do this, I promise that you will walk away from your time in D.C. thoroughly satisfied.

Thanks for the Memories

To the Summer 2009 Semester in Washington Journalism Program: Thanks for the Memories

-Thomas drops Lauren -- both of them.

-The creation of the Evenflow game
-Walking into the apartment and screaming for Joey's name to no avail

-The Water balloon fight -- hitting Brittney Cooley in the face, it was so mean but it was funny
-All the Nats games, no matter how crappy they were

-Seeing Lt. Dan (Gary Sinese) during a Memorial Day Parade
-Getting rejected from giving the doorman at some hotel a dollar because I wanted to tip him by folding it up in my hand and handshaking and giving it to him but he didn't understand what was going on
-Trips with Biz-mark
-"President Obama! President Obama!"
-Fourth of July on the National Mall
-The pillow talk with Josh
-Josh, Thomas and Jordan and the Secret of Joey
-Random text messages/phone calls/facebook messagees from Lauren Hogan
-Lauren Steier's love of Nebraska no matter how crappy it was
-Asking the security guard at the Washington monument how tall it was and him trying to give a smart answer but failing miserably
-Being at the Rhino bar the same night as the Real World People
-The report between Margaret and Josh about their Georgia roots
-Going to the zoo and getting my picture of the "hungover panda"
-Brittney Cooley giving me the nickname of "panda", also comparing her boyfriend to Seth Rogen

-Chanel's cupcake quiz

-Camping -- Thomas asking us all philosophical questions about life, liberty and Nebraska

-Camping -- Josh thought he was on fire and didn't want the pictures on facebook because his dad is on facebook
-Camping -- Chanel keeping the fire alive by throwing batches of leaves into it

-Sarah's fall/Josh wets himself

-The Revivalists concert

-Nights at the National Mall

-7-11 Trips: in particular singing "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors and getting the employee into it

-Getting lost in Dupont and creating a new term

-Listening to the Gift of Words and Music

-Creating the Giver-Guys Night Out: "Are you embarrassed by this piece of crap???"

-Thomas' shock at the gray squirrel

-Drift Away moments

-Watching the Lakers/Nuggets, Lakers/Magic with at least one fan of the opposite team

-Michael Jackson week, the death sucked, but the week was awesome

-The new obsession with the song "Pokerface"

-Making the infamous haiku video that only an elite few have seen thus far
-"Too many Squantos, not enough Indians."

-Thomas' birthday
-"So you write blogs? Is that what's going on here?"

College Summit's Hilarious Team Building Activity

This past weekend I went with my internship, College Summit, to conduct interviews and film an Alumni Ambassador workshop presentation and ice breakers. In this particular video, all the alumni ambassador candidates are participating in a team building activity, which ended up being pretty funny! For the activity everyone had to have a partner. One person was blind folded and the other person had to act as a guide.The partner that was not blind folded had to verbally guide the blindfolded partner to different items in the room and bring the items back to the teams home base. There was a conflict over cheating... but Ill let you watch and see you for yourself.

This clip is so funny and makes you think twice about cheating!

The most interesting intern in the world

For one of the recent Semester in Washington Journalism assignments students were asked to create a 1-2 minute haiku using a small Flip video camera. Watch and see what students came up with. If you had to make a video about yourself, what would you say? Listen to Josh and his story about what he's really all about.


This is my short one minute project. (Don't worry I'm not that arrogant, it's a play on the Dos Equis commercials!)

Me in a nutshell ,sort of.... (haiku outake)

For one of the recent Semester in Washington Journalism assignments students were asked to create a 1-2 minute haiku using a small Flip video camera. Watch and see what students came up with. If you had to make a video about yourself, what would you say? Listen to Natalie and her story.

About Me in One Minute -Margaret Kreger

For one of the recent Semester in Washington Journalism assignments students were asked to create a 1-2 minute haiku using a small Flip video camera. Watch and see what Margaret had to say. If you had to make a video about yourself, what would you say?