Aside from Broadway, seeing my Gamecocks play football is my favorite thing in the world. This year playing our rival, Clemson, the game started out rocky when they scored a touchdown in the first 30 seconds, but something happened and we turned the game around. I certainly wasn't expecting the game to end in our favor, and after what I had seen so far in the season it was shocking when the Gamecocks took the lead and held it! Ending 34-17, the Gamecocks won the game. My early post about Carolina Football talks about the game, but if you have never been to an SEC football game, you haven't been to a real football fame. Sandstorm is our theme song you could say and when it is played, the entire student section of 12,000 jumps and cheers, creating a one of a kind experience.
Football ending comes up right as classes are finishing up too. The holiday season seemed to fly by and we spent New Years in Vail. My friend Rachel joined us to ski and then graciously let me stay with her in Denver for a few days. I had never spent any time in Denver other than flying into it, but it is a great city. The art museum is one of the best I have been to in the World. There exhibit was Embrace! and 16 artists had been invited to choose any spot in the museum and do whatever they wanted. The result was some brilliant art that filled so many neat spots in their beautiful building. Rachel had to work, but I had no problem filling my time. Other spots I visited included the Margaret Brown house (Unsinkable Molly Brown from the Titanic) and the US Mint where they make coins.
It wasn't long before it was back to classes. This semester I have four classes: Integrated Combination Strategies, New Technology and Mass Comm., and independent study with the marketing director of the Department of Theatre and Dance and a magazine class where we write for the alumni magazine for the school, InterCom. The time I have left over from that is divided between working in the Office of the Provost and as a communications intern at the S.C. Arts Commission. I love working at the arts commission because everyone here loves the arts and so there is always someone to chat with about what is going on with arts in the world. Classes have be interesting this semester and we have had some neat projects that have put our skills to the test.
Also this semester I had to take my COMPs, which are two days of testing that have to be passes in order to graduate from the program. After arguing to be able to take both days in the same semester (you would have thought I wanted to fly to the moon), I was able to take both in March. Day 1 was five questions in five hours based on the five core courses of the program. To be honest, it was really boring. It was no test to what we had actually learned, but rather what could be memorized and typed out in the time allotted. Day two on the other hand was exciting. In the five hours we had to essentially write out an entire campaign including research, communications plan, goals and objectives, evaluations and provide a budget. This was much more fun and made the time fly by.
It was funny because I passed all of the day one except research, which means I have to make two or three additions to pass and got a passing score for day two. Surprisingly, there were a good many people out of the seven who took day two that didn't pass. It's a little shocking because it is a culmination of all we have been taught in all our classes and you only had to get an 80 or better to be allowed to continue to the oral defense. They made a big deal about me not having had my practicum, which I am doing this summer, yet the people who didn't pass were all in theirs. makes you wonder...
Also this semester I had to take my COMPs, which are two days of testing that have to be passes in order to graduate from the program. After arguing to be able to take both days in the same semester (you would have thought I wanted to fly to the moon), I was able to take both in March. Day 1 was five questions in five hours based on the five core courses of the program. To be honest, it was really boring. It was no test to what we had actually learned, but rather what could be memorized and typed out in the time allotted. Day two on the other hand was exciting. In the five hours we had to essentially write out an entire campaign including research, communications plan, goals and objectives, evaluations and provide a budget. This was much more fun and made the time fly by.
It was funny because I passed all of the day one except research, which means I have to make two or three additions to pass and got a passing score for day two. Surprisingly, there were a good many people out of the seven who took day two that didn't pass. It's a little shocking because it is a culmination of all we have been taught in all our classes and you only had to get an 80 or better to be allowed to continue to the oral defense. They made a big deal about me not having had my practicum, which I am doing this summer, yet the people who didn't pass were all in theirs. makes you wonder...
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