Sam Blackburn is Off to Culinary School

Sam promises once school begins she will blog it sauce by sauce. We'll be linking over there on the left.

Pat Bhoolsuwan is in DC

She writes:

Yes I moved to Obamaville and frankly I'm loving it! What a fun town... The big reason I moved here...my boyfriend's got a great promotion with the coast guard and is now working in the DC office. I am hoping to start working in this market, despite the tough market. But like most places, this market is slowly going one man band which is really sad. When you pay your dues for many years and see this in a top 10 market, it kinda sucks...but working here would be fun...so we'll see where it takes me

Carly Perez is Off to the Peace Corps

Professor Robertson,

The only specifics I've been given about PC is that I'll be an IT tech teacher in either the Caribbean, or Central or South America in a spanish speaking country. Exciting! I will be sure to keep you updated on the experience, keep an eye on my blog (carlyspostscript.blogspot.com)!

Kent German, Tactile Keys and the New York Times

Our illustrious grad gets snarked at.

You know you've arrived when a New York Times writer takes notice of your work, even if it's to make a snarky remark about it. CNET got such an honor Monday when David Pogue, the newspaper's tech and gadget columnist, included us in a tweet about one of his pet peeves.

Here's what Pogue twittered: "CNET writes 'All the keys feel tactile.' HELLO? 'Tactile' means 'You can feel it.' What the hell is a 'tactile feel'!?"

Kent German is a senior editor for cell phone reviews at CNET. When he's not testing the newest handsets on the market, he's blogging about cell phone news for Crave. In his On Call column, he answers reader questions and gives his take on the rapidly changing mobile industry.

Good Wikipedia, Bad Wikipedia

Wikipedia for Journalists & Bloggers

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A Graduate on the Perils of Naked Ambition

Make that "Naked Ambition." You really need the quotes.

Grad Katie Crozier Has the Political Bug

She worked for Biden in Iowa. Now she's working for Paul Thissen, who is running for governor in Minnesota.

She writes:

I'll begin work on his campaign next month, which is very exciting for me since I've never gotten to do campaign work from such an early start in a primary -- many people who are expected to also run for Governor here have not yet even announced, so I'm getting a great head-start with all of it. I don't yet have an official "title," but am one of the few people to be put on payroll at the moment. I'm excited!

Hello, Emerson Pearl Nguyen Dennis

GIRL!!!!!

Announcing the birth of Emerson Pearl Nguyen Dennis

April 5, 2009 at 9:36 in the morning

6 lbs. 15 oz.

18 inches long

Hobbies: eating, crying, eating

Grads are Invited to Critique the Current USF Website and Suggest What the New One Should Look Like

Image by Denis Collette...!!! via Flickr

Oakland-based White Whale is doing us up a new one. Here's a page where you can leave comments on what you 'formers' want in the new site. After all, USF is something you will never get out of your rear view mirror, so it makes sense to improve the view.

News of Meghedi (Melody) Nazarian Over at Darwin's Cat

As I said, optimizing your journalism skills via a new platform makes darn good sense in today's journalism market.