{"id":231,"date":"2018-03-16T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-03-16T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T21:29:13","slug":"a-week-of-juggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/2018\/03\/16\/a-week-of-juggling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Juggling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Viola Malone CSUN graduate student (2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everything literally happened so fast! A professor sent me the link and suggested that I apply. I had never come across this training and was very interested, however I was scared. I\u2019d spent a weekend learning about the process, looking at past projects and filled out the application three times before submitting it. <\/span> I knew it was a great opportunity, but I had my final semester of schoolwork hanging over my head. The fourth time I filled out the entire application I just went for it. I told myself the worst they can do is tell me I hadn\u2019t been accepted, which would be okay, because I needed to focus on my thesis anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doug and the Next Gen family had other plans for me as I received a \u201cyou\u2019re in\u201d text! Not even an e-mail, I must have shown them something.<\/span> Going into this intensive training I was nervous, anxious, excited \u2026 just a ball of feelings. <\/span> The first day was the most nerve-wrecking for me, because I didn\u2019t feel I was super prepared. I\u2019d already prepared myself for a \u201cno,\u201d that I hadn\u2019t completely thought about a \u201cyes\u201d and what that would mean.<\/span> I didn\u2019t feel overly prepared and if I\u2019m not overly prepared, I\u2019m not prepared at all. <\/span> No matter how hard I tried to change it, my mind was fixated on completing school and graduating. I had to come up with a full-blown audio story, complete with text and social posts from start to finish within one week, what did I get myself into?! <\/span> After our first meeting, I felt more at ease with the entire process. Not only did I have two potential subjects, my mentor, Mariana Dale, provided me with great balance. Granted, with all work situations, our work styles differ, but we made it work. <\/span> We made a to-do list. We kept in constant communication. We heard each other out and worked together toward my story goal. Throughout the process of retrieving my audio interview I felt very supported by Mariana. During the times I held back she knew just what to say to get me moving forward.<\/span> If things seemed to be too much to juggle, she was there with encouraging words and even a hand (literally). I really enjoyed the on the spot feedback and corrections. She did it just so without overstepping boundaries or pushing her way into my story.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Viola Malone capturing photos of Shoneji Robison, co-owner of Southern Girl Desserts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The diverse group of individuals they chose supported and encouraged each other throughout the entire process. The project manager was amazing with daily check-ins and a written list of tasks. I knew working on this audio story would be a bit difficult for me as I have more experience writing narrative stories. After logging my audio, I was behind my group in preparing my story. <\/span> My biggest takeaway from this project would definitely be the social media component. Honestly, the social media posts were the one thing I initially dreaded, but our social media leaders did an amazing job explaining what should be posted and how to go about making posts.<\/span> I\u2019m so very grateful for submitting that application and for Next Generation Radio providing students like myself with such an amazing opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Everything literally happened so fast! A professor sent me the link and suggested that I apply. I had never come across this training and was very interested, however I was scared. I\u2019d spent a weekend learning about the process, looking at past projects and filled out the application three times before submitting it. I knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2018.nextgenradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}