My Senior Capstone Ideas...

It's already time for me to start thinking about my life and my career beyond college. This spring semester I'm taking my Broadcast Communications Capstone class, a senior studies class which allows students the opportunity to delve deep into their major, pick a topic in that field that interests them, research on that topic, and then develop a way to showcase what you discovered and to make it your own. In many majors at Westminster College, this would require a long research paper, but one of the reasons I really love broadcasting is that the opportunity for creativity is endless.

Therefore, in my capstone class, I will have to develop a senior project that interests and benefits me down the road. The first step was to craft a mission statement, which I've included under the ABOUT ME section on the right. The main idea from my mission statement is the importance of networking, especially in the broadcast business. Hard work and experience are important to unlocking the doors to opportunities, but it's also about who you know and who knows you. This blog will help me in this endeavor: to display my work, to network in the business, and to get my name out there.

This is why I chose to sub-head my blog with a line from the song "What Could Be Better" by the Christian band 33 Miles which reads, "I'm living in the days ahead..." It seems to me that in the broadcasting world, it's always about being one step ahead of the game, to be thinking in terms of tomorrow. You want to act like your future employer is right there observing you. You never know who is out there watching, who may be a potential networking contact for you down the line. One of the things I would like to do with this blog is to look at what employers are looking for in their future employees as well as to reflect on the work I'm doing right now in the field and how it is preparing me for a career in the future.

I'm still not sure what I want to do once I graduate, so I'm having a hard time deciding what to do for my senior project. Some ideas I've been tossing around include: revitalizing the Covenant radio show, plus bringing a Christian band to campus, creating an online resume website that features all my work in radio and television, or starting an online version of the County Line. Basically, my senior project is still in the works. Oh, and I almost forgot...everyone in my class is applying to the Amazing Race 14, too! Here's a link to my capstone professor's blog for this class: BC Capstone!