{"id":573887947,"date":"2015-04-29T01:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T06:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887947"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:36:12","slug":"just-another-day-of-skill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/just-another-day-of-skill-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another day of skill building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s front page also celebrates the two conference winners:<\/p>\n

\"Crimson\"<\/center><\/p>\n

In the fall we also saw the women’s volleyball team win a conference championship. There are rings all over the place.<\/p>\n

Two classes today<\/strong>. In one we discussed television broadcast scripts. In another we discussed commercials. I have students writing a commercial of their own creation. Any existing product, any living people, any music they wanted, any theme or catchphrases they wanted. <\/p>\n

So today I heard a bit about the commercials. And they sound really good. You’d want to watch two or three of them attentively, and how often do you say that about commercials?<\/p>\n

We had the penultimate<\/strong> critique meeting tonight. Next week the students will produce their last Crimson of the year. I think after that we’ll just have a big party. Or at least some finger foods and bad jokes.<\/p>\n

Then, next week, there’s the big picnic, the last paper and the beginning of the year’s goodbyes.<\/p>\n

A handful of people will be leaving as seniors, people I’ve known since they were freshmen. <\/p>\n

You have fun watching them grow. You enjoy watching them go. You wish it wasn’t so long between sending them off and hearing about their successes.<\/p>\n

We do like hearing those success stories. <\/p>\n

[Insert half an hour of looking through people’s LinkedIn profiles … ]<\/p>\n

I’m going to have to write about some people’s success stories soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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