My name is Jack Mitchell, and I don’t know what I want to do with my life. Actu­al­ly, let me rephrase. I love jour­nal­ism. I love news. I major in the for­mer and try to con­sume large quan­ti­ties of the latter.…

Wel­come to the world of aspir­ing stu­dent jour­nal­ist Dal­ton Zbier­s­ki. I am a first semes­ter junior begin­ning my third year at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. As a jour­nal­ism major, I’ve been a mem­ber of the Dai­ly Cam­pus, UConn most promi­nent stu­dent news­pa­per, for the past…

Have you ever met a per­son that watch­es three dif­fer­ent sport­ing events on three dif­fer­ent medi­ums while they surf the web for updates on those very same events? If you haven’t, do not wor­ry; it is not the most “nor­mal” hobby…

Com­ing into UConn, I was ini­tial­ly a pre-med stu­dent. How­ev­er, once I real­ized under­stand­ing the con­cept of an atom­ic num­ber was an uphill bat­tle, I quick­ly came to the con­clu­sion I should­n’t spend $20,000 a year on study­ing some­thing I…

Grow­ing up it seemed a tedious task to sit in front of the TV and watch a bunch good look­ing peo­ple talk about how screwed up the world is becom­ing and who to blame for this and that. How­ev­er, as I grew…

When I was in junior high school, I start­ed watch­ing the Nation­al Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion on TV and oth­er sports games. The pas­sion and hard work of the ath­letes attract­ed me, inspir­ing me to be a sports jour­nal­ist. Also, bas­ket­ball is the rea­son why I…

As more and more peo­ple con­tin­ue to flock to the metaphor­i­cal trough that is jour­nal­ism, the field is clear­ly becom­ing increas­ing­ly strat­i­fied  — the top 20 per­cent is bet­ter than it has ever been, and the bot­tom 20 per­cent is as…

When I tell peo­ple I’m a jour­nal­ism major, they auto­mat­i­cal­ly think I mean I want to be a reporter — con­vey the cold hard facts, the who, what, when, why of a crime scene, of break­ing news. But that’s not…

I’m Eri­ca Bran­ca­to and I am a jour­nal­ism and com­mu­ni­ca­tion dou­ble major. When I first came to UConn I head­ed straight toward The Dai­ly Cam­pus to get involved. I want­ed to com­bine my pas­sion for sports and writ­ing and get…