WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE.
I’m leaving on a jet plane, back to the District on Thursday. I couldn’t be more excited to get back to school, start really cracking over at The Hatchet, and work my senior year to its fullest, but I do wonder what happened to the last seven weeks I spent in Minnesota.
It would have been hard to ask for a much better short-term summer break – a trip to Arizona, plenty of relaxation, cutting a few strokes off my golf handicap – but I’d be lying if I said I felt like I accomplished everything I wanted to this summer. I had hoped that my time in the midwest would be a digital retreat of sorts – where I would get up to speed and learn everything I could ever need to know about journalism and the web and social media and the like.
That didn’t happen.
In fact, when I make a list of the things I still need to catch up with, it’s a list much longer than I’d like:
- Figure out how to really use LinkedIn
- Figure what Publish2 really is and how I can use it personally and for The Hatchet
- Learn how to code in Javascript
- Write posts here much more frequently
- Complete roughly six thousand more minor tasks for The Hatchet
- Record some music
- Practice my video and still photography skills
- Write a particularly important post I’ve been saving up that is essentially the mission statement of this blog.
- Many more tasks that has wasted away into oblivion
Maybe it hasn’t been so bad. Actually, it hasn’t – it’s been great. But when you follow [read: try to learn from] so many smart people who seem light years ahead, it’s hard not to feel a little lazy.
Here’s to picking up the slack.
