A Connecticut Yankee In Charlie Oredigger's Court: Summer Fun

   It has been a few months since my last post, summer is here and I am doing the best I can to not spend it attached to a computer. That is not to say I have avoided being productive however; it's just that a fresh look at my priorities seemed to be in order. My list of summer-to-do items, in order of importance:

1. Get to the beach multiple times a week
2. Read something for fun
3. Learn something from the IHS Journalism & A Free Society conference in Philadelphia
3. Get the knee surgery I have been waiting years for
4. Forget about being dumped by my girlfriend
5. Go on computer for blogging, editing, learning new tricks etc (basically what I did the whole school semester)

   I stayed faithful to the list with the exception of the "fun reading". I just haven't found the right time to start reading, the pain after my knee surgery (ACL reconstruction) pushed my motivation levels way down. I am hoping to remedy that situation and plow through a few classics in the last few weeks of summer. There are a number of good books out there that I've been meaning to wrap my head around.

   While working on my Undergraduate Research Project (a film about the Great Depression, NCUR accepted!) I decided that journalism is a field I was interested in. This mild interest started building into a career trajectory after I took Journalism 101 last semester and signed up for a summer conference put together by the Institute for Humane Studies. The seminar was a great experience, it was a week long networking/learning experience, where I met other like minded students from around the country and discussed advanced political topics that you wouldn't normally encounter here at Tech. The IHS features a number of different seminars they run annually. Some focus journalism, while other public policy or just even political theory, the common ground being the analysis using "classically liberal" political theory, known today as libertarianism. Some shots from the event: