Um, Hello

Um, so apparently I fail at properly using this website/attending this course/reading emails. This, my introductory blog post, should have been completed and posted some time ago, however, better late than never so here I go. I am Jacob.I am a 20 year old junior in the Gallatin school studying entertainment journalism and creative writing. I drink excessive amounts of Diet Coke. I expect this to one day result in some rare disease and/or disorder. I fix my hair approximately 10,000 times a day. I like things that sparkle and shineI sometimes forget which events have happened in my real life and which have happened on TV. I am living the next few months of my life in London. Whenever people ask me the inevitable question of “what’s your major?” I always have the choice of awkwardly fumbling through my little shpiel about Gallatin, and individualized study and blah blah blah or sort of fibbing and saying that I’m majoring in either writing or journalism. Wanting to be accurate/honest, I tend to go for the first option which is kind of a conversation killer a lot of the time. The explanation is confusing and weird and I only pray that somehow I can clearly convey what I have been doing with the past four years of my life once I am faced with the unenviable task of impressing potential employers. NYC partygoers tend to perk up, though, when I tell that, right now, I am focusing on tabloid/celebrity journalism. In New York, I interned at OK! Magazine, which was one of the most truly amazing experiences of my life. I had heard so many horror stories about interns tasked with slave labor and hellish Miranda Priestley-style bosses, that I was nervous about my fate at OK!, but I ended up not only vibing with my co-workers but getting to do genuincly fun and interesting work, even (gasp) getting to write, and rub elbows with big name celebs at movie premieres and red carpets. Basically my dream come true. I only focus so much on this internship because it is a huge focus of where I am right now in my mid-academic life. I hope to continue to grow in this field when I intern for the Daily Express in London. So that is where I am at right now in a nutshell. Dreaming of red carpets, and one day maybe actually making some money doing something I like.  Stay tuned for post #2.

xoxo

JGH