THE HUFFINGTON POST

Sorry for posting this late, but the blog I decided to follow is The Huffington Post. I chose this blog because it's fairly popular, and it's the right blend of politics and entertainment. I usually read blogs that are either all about politics or all about media gossip, so I thought I would start reading one that had both. Arianna Huffington is one of the co-founders of the post, the editor-in-chief, and it is named after her. The blog is basically full of commentaries on what is going on in the world of politics and pop culture. There are a lot of celebrities that post on this site, like Rosie O'Donnell and Alec Baldwin along with popular writers for big papers like The New Yorker. There are videos and links and it is constantly updated. There are bios of all the writers with each article. I think that this blog is a good example of what it looks like to blend celebrities and the media and politics. In the past they were kept for the most part separate, but the Post brings them all together to voice their opinions in their blog posts, especially with what's going on with the election.

MY VERY FIRST BLOG POST!

HI EVERYONE!!

My name's Christine, I'm 20 (almost 21 soon!!) and a junior at UMBC. I'm a MCS major and Poli Sci minor. I commute to campus after a not so pleasant first year living here. I was going to transfer out to College Park since I live closer to there anyways, but it would have taken me longer to graduate so I stayed. Plus I fell in love with this subject last spring and when I found out it was a full major it cemented my decision to stay. After I graduate I plan on getting a job with some type of media company, either in Boston or DC. I would love to work for a consulting company or media productions or a magazine, but it all depends if I want to shoot for a master's or law school.

Right now I work full-time in DC. I'm looking into internships and jobs for the summer or the fall, hopefully with something that blends my concentrations together. I love this major because it allows that flexibility and it just works with so many different fields. I'm a die-hard REDSKINS fan (sorry Ravens), despite their performance the last couple seasons.

I tend to do things randomly and very spontaneously and it comes out when I leave for random trips to different places. I love traveling because I've been in Silver Spring for so long it's nice to get out and see the rest of the world. I feel that in order to be successful there's so much expectation to know everything that's going on in the world and to have some sort of opinion about it. When you're growing up K-12 you learn about different subjects completely separate from each other, like how cultural aspects of a certain time are taught in that context only, aside from the history or politics of the same time period. When I took this class last spring it really blended everything together and you could just see the cause-and-effect trends making so much more sense. So hopefully this class will serve to help in that aspect and to really just make sense about what exactly is going on with these big trends in the world.