The Big Orange meets the Big Apple

For the first week in October, the School of Journalism and Electronic Media took their annual trip to New York City. The trip allows journalism students, who are over 21, to go on the trip and get a taste of life in the big city.

I was lucky enough to go this year and see what all New York has to offer. For five days we got to visit many of different media conglomerates including CNN, ABC, Fox News, Playboy, The CW, HBO, NY Sports and many other places. We also got to choose from one of two Broadway plays to see; either Avenue Q or A Chorus Line. I chose to see Avenue Q, which I definitely recommend. The way they turn puppets in to perverted characters is definitely worth seeing.

With each place we went to, we got an insight to how they kept up with the news and what all goes in to making a story; whether the deadline is one day, one week or one month. One of my favorite places we visited was the New York Post. It made me realize how much fun you can have while working hard at the same time. It was my first visit to a real newsroom and it was at first overwhelming with all the madness that goes on. But it was everything I pictured it would be: The hustle and bustle of the news room, small cubicles with past articles in them and papers stacked to the ceiling.

The trip to NY made me want to be a journalist even more. The fast-paced life of the city was such a dramatic change from here but it was so exciting to be in the midst of it every day. The best thing about the NY trip was that it got me interested in areas that I would of never imagined. If you go in knowing that you wanted to do print, you might come out wanting to do production. That's what this trip really had to offer: the best insights possible to all the fields of journalism.

I would recommend this trip for any journalism student, especially those who want to move to a bigger city and work because that city could either make or break you. I always knew that I wanted to move to NY after I graduated but after I went and visited and got a taste of what it's really like, I knew that NY was the perfect fit for me.