http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/ Amanda's rendezvous with reality. en-us 2008-07-15T09:28:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/027540.html I didn't think a job could have more perks than the one I had at the library. Quiet. Free reading material. Time to do homework. But I think I found one that can top even those. And I'm happy --... Amanda Cochran 2008-07-15T09:28:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/027515.html I've always wondered if Darwin and God could get along. This interview article with a pretty articulate author has settled my mind in some ways and agitated it in others about the possibility. The story was written by a NYU... Amanda Cochran 2008-07-01T17:01:15-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025738.html I know the tourists in New York by their starry-eyed, glassy gazes and slowness through the subway turnstiles. But how did they know I was a tourist in Mississippi? I have a few ideas. When I opened my mouth: At... Amanda Cochran 2008-06-20T18:10:04-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025717.html It looks like I got my first credit... And I made the video, too. Woo hoo. More reflection to come...... Amanda Cochran 2008-06-11T22:49:30-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025709.html It's a pretty big deal when The New York Times sends out a News Alert. I'm usually shocked by their stories (especially when it concerns cranes), but I wasn't today. I watched a sad history happen. Tennis champion Roger Federer... Amanda Cochran 2008-06-08T13:15:24-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025702.html I'm doing a lot of editing at Salon. This is one of the Salon Conversations pieces on the mainstreaming of bottled water I sliced and diced together. Fun. Fun. I like that Salon really presents pieces in their original interview... Amanda Cochran 2008-06-07T11:43:23-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025692.html Bags from Victoria's Secret, Macy's and American Eagle are strewn through my living space. One bed is stripped. Only remnants like the reduced-fat mayo in the fridge and some designer tea in the cupboard remain of her. I'd had only... Amanda Cochran 2008-06-05T14:54:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025673.html Coney Island was a blinking destination on the side of a dingy subway car. The last stop on the F Line. Many New Yorkers, I've found, have a dream mentality about the end of subway lines; they live in a... Amanda Cochran 2008-05-28T15:04:45-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025665.html Student Outcomes seems like a minor misnomer to me, considering that we've only been out of school for a couple of years, but the new series by Dr. Arnzen is a brilliant example of local community blogging. It's great to... Amanda Cochran 2008-05-23T13:14:44-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025644.html Everyone thought I was up for an interview to do hair in New York. But no, no, no. I don't think at this Salon, they do much shampooing. I returned early from Pennsylvania to interview for an internship at the... Amanda Cochran 2008-05-16T17:58:50-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025639.html His face was grim, but in a chipper way that only Apple employees can pull off. My White Wonder -- my Macbook -- was hooked up to a Lacie hard-drive lifeline -- and didn't quite make it. I could almost... Amanda Cochran 2008-05-14T16:31:20-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025634.html There's big news from every angle. Some of it good, some of it bad. But I'll take it slow. I finished my first and only full year at New York University. I'm up for some internship work. I'm living in... Amanda Cochran 2008-05-12T22:24:33-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025535.html Marshall McLuhan's media theories are buzzing around my head these days. One of my last assignments of my first year at NYU is to rethink the online journalism medium and present it to my Media: Past, Present and Future class.... Amanda Cochran 2008-04-27T14:02:55-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025286.html A canyon yawned ahead. Radioblogclub.com was down. They promised to come back soon, but two months, three days and I suppose 15 hours and 45 minutes and 6 seconds later, they were still showing the same lame message about making... Amanda Cochran 2008-04-11T12:18:46-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AmandaCochran/025046.html Joan Didion's name is one that I'd heard in conversation time and time again. She became one of those authors that I'd always intended to read and would be considered "well-read" if I did. So, as I was flipping through... Amanda Cochran 2008-04-05T11:29:23-05:00