Features Editors Blog – 4/8/11

Danielle Sorcher
Features Editor

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, to say the least. Prom, homework, a test almost every day, prom, AP test/SAT preparation, new Journalism staff for next year, summer program applications, and have we mentioned prom? With all of this going on, we’ve plunged full speed ahead into the Journalism new cycle. We have an extraordinary amount of stories for this cycle, both for online and print–overmedication, dealing with college rejection, cheating, watching movies online… and the Journalism class has been scrambling around trying to get everything set for initial due dates on Friday. Friday is a big day: stories are due, the quarter ends, and j-prom is that night. But the pressure of prom will be over, for many, by this Friday. The last minute tailoring of dresses, getting shoes, hair/makeup appointments; all of it will be done. And with prom over and stories in, Features can really let loose this cycle with probably the most amount of stories we’ve had all year at one time. We’re going more multimedia, as a class, too–three videos are being worked on currently.

Though it’s been a little crazy, we thrive on that. We want to make order through the chaos by extracting all possible stories at this tumultuous NCHS time. So check out the next issue of the Courant and NCHSCourant.com to see what the section has done!