| Interview with Chicago Tribune 8:30-4:30pm Monday 4/28.
The most grueling, exhausting, stressing experience of my life to date. The tension, anxiety and anticipation building all day long as your mouth keeps drying out and brain freezes at "What school do you go to?" Okay, fine, not really, but almost.
Being interviewed by 16 editors and reporters, competing with brilliant minds, choking on the provided breakfast and lunch was EXHAUSTING. DRAINING. STRETCHING.
I'm pretty sure I didn't get the job. I did pretty well (except for freezing on the first two rounds because I was the most nervous I've ever been all my life) but to be honest with myself, I don't know what I was doing there. These people were from Yale, Columbia, worked internationally, work full-time, got their master's, etc. I was probably the youngest and the least experienced and the most confounded.
I'm just thankful for this experience. I learned so much about myself, about the job interview process, about journalism, about what I want to do.
AND THE BEST FOR LAST.
(well, you know what happened  )
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