by Diego de los Reyes | Aug 20, 2014 | Diversity, Essays
Me, in a sea of white. I want to be special. Everyone does, right? Everyone wants to be a Campbell-ian hero, with a set journey. I also don’t want to be special. Maybe a hold-over from my middle school/high school years, where you try to be like everybody else. To be normal. I’m undecided, you see. Which means this post might not arrive to a singular conclusion. You’ve been warned. This post has been tumbling around my head for a while, ever since I returned from my semester abroad in Nebraska. During my stay there, I participated in the college newspaper as a reporter. It was an amazing experience, as it was nice to do journalism in a school environment that supports it. When the semester was done, a colleague told me how happy he/she was that the paper was more diverse that year, with two diverse news writers. Now, I know what he meant. I’d agree that diversity is something media should strive for. I thanked him for that, and his/her help advice during the semester. It wasn’t until later that his comment started gnawing at me. Was I diverse because of my name? My color of skin, my nationality? Are those factors enough to consider me “diverse”? Whatever else, I still was a middle-class student fortunate enough to spend a semester abroad. I’m college-educated, just as all my other colleagues where. So am I diverse? Am I not? Is it up to me or to other people to decide? So that’s unanswered question #1. My train of thought then led me to the concept of minority. Was I seen as...
by Diego de los Reyes | Aug 17, 2014 | Meta
Fall is when everything starts. School’s back, the TV season begins, and I don’t understand the Rule of Three. Of course, not everything starts on the fall. This post has barely begun and I am already second guessing my choice of lede. So let’s start again, in more ways than one. I’m about to start my last year of college, where I’ve been studying Computer Science for the last four years. I’ve recently returned from a very tough but very fun semester at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. I’ve formally ended my internship as a web developer last week. Ad, as I’m sure will shock no one that has ever been 22 years old, I have no idea what to do with my life. So, to borrow both a TV term and a computing term, I’m attempting a soft reboot. Everything that’s happened in my life so far is still canon, but I’ll try to take a different direction from now on. I’ll elaborate on the why’s and how’s of this later, but here’s the crux of the issue, summed up in two statements: I don’t want to program anymore. I want to write for television. Both of those have their reasons and issues. But I decided to, under that banner, launch this site and see what happens. And the first step, as far as I see it, is to write, write write. I’ve done it before, in different places and times, and I’ll continue to do so. But for the first time, I’m challenging myself to write something each day for a year. Sometimes it’ll be a blog post....
