The City

So here are some pictures as promised from my very recent trip to New York City. I was lucky enough to be amongst the group of editors from our newspaper The Mountaineer and our magazine Substance (in which I am Managing Editor) who were chosen to go. The conference held in Times Square by College Media Advisers is among the largest collection of student journalist and media professionals in the nation, which meets once a year in the spring in New York City. I had the great opportunity to meet with editors from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Associated Press, and other industry professions from schools and established publications.

After work comes much needed play. I’d get up early to go to sessions and by the late afternoon my friend David, who is a hair stylist living in the city, was nice enough to take time out of his day and show me around.  The first day out was insane since it happened to be the hurricane of 2010, but I wasn’t going to let gusty winds and pounding rain keep me from my Soho shopping experience. The details of my purchases will need a whole different post alone, but I found a few essential pieces that I cannot wait to share.

The trip has inspired me and made me realize that there is no other place I could possibly finish my schooling. I’m shifting gears to apply to schools in NYC and I couldn’t be more excited, it just all feels like it’s happening so fast.

A special thank you to my friend David Lopez (in the last picture) who took these fabulous photos to document my trip, and all around showing me an amazing time. Please check out his website, his work is amazing and I have to make an appointment for a cut & color the next time I’m in the city :)

Oh and yes, the 6th picture of me IS in front of Carries stoop. I don’t care if it’s cheesy or too fan boy but everything I know about New York is from Sex and the City. I know the series foreword and backward and it would have been a sin to be in Manhattan and not pay homage to Carries apartment.