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Please allow me to introduce myself…
Hi folks, My name is Maggie de Barra and I am very excited to begin blogging here at Maclean’s OnCampus. I’m starting my fourth and final year of the Bachelor of Journalism program at Carleton University this fall. For the past four weeks I have been studying at the International Summer School at the University [...]
Hi folks,
My name is Maggie de Barra and I am very excited to begin blogging here at Maclean’s OnCampus. I’m starting my fourth and final year of the Bachelor of Journalism program at Carleton University this fall. For the past four weeks I have been studying at the International Summer School at the University of Cambridge.
I am going into study overdrive for the next month as I finish preparing for my LSAT with high hopes of law school in the future.
I’m going to be blogging about current student issues, from orientation to convocation and everything in between. I know what it is like to be a journalism student in Ottawa, but I’m interested in what goes on in the everyday lives of Canadian students from coast to coast. If you are reading Maclean’s OnCampus you’re probably also interested in what students care about and what’s happening in the world that has a direct impact on their lives, both inside and outside the classroom.
I’ll sign off now because I have a lot to unpack, but feel free to leave a comment (I promise to read every single one), send me an email (maggiedebarra@gmail.com) or follow me on twitter! (@maggiedebarra)
Hope to hear from you soon!
First, a bit about me
I wear a lot of hats. Both literally and figuratively. Literally, to rub it in to my sister, who has an abnormally large head and cannot wear hats. In return, she ridicules my cankles. Don’t cry for me. It could be worse. But I digress. Figuratively, because at the moment, I’m a summer news reporter [...]
I wear a lot of hats. Both literally and figuratively.
Literally, to rub it in to my sister, who has an abnormally large head and cannot wear hats. In return, she ridicules my cankles. Don’t cry for me. It could be worse.
But I digress.
Figuratively, because at the moment, I’m a summer news reporter here and also master of journalism at Ryerson. During school months, I’m a TA and occasional government worker, too.
In the past, I’ve also worked here, here, and graduated with a political science degree from UBC.
I may be a newshound, but I’m no ambulance-chaser. Some journalists like the hard news stuff: the corruption, the police shoot-outs and the three-car highway crashes.
Not I.
I like the strange stories—the town convinced that’s there’s a leprechaun in the tree, the mysterious cow that washed up on Victoria’s waterfront, or the woman who builds cat condos in Toronto.
That’s what I plan on writing about here: strange, quirky stories in a campus setting. I’m thinking this should work, because most students are young.
And, well, young people sometimes do strange things.
