A very, very long overdue New Year’s update

*Blows dust off of this WordPress account* Oh boy, it has been a while hasn't it? Guess the best way to start this overdue update is by wishing all of you a happy new year and a happy new decade! There's something overwhelming about the idea that we have a new blank slate to work …

Meeting expectations

If my life were a series of Sesame Street episodes, the word of the day would be: Meetings. Pretty much as soon as I woke up, I joined Mom at a local Starbucks to have breakfast with Tatjana — the wife of Magic Moreno, who I spoke to for Gladeo not long ago. Worth reading if …

Industrial aesthetic in Culver City

If you've been around my blog long enough, you know I have a thing for interesting architecture and industrial design when I see it. The prior was on full display when I went to Pasadena City College for one of my sister's auditions, while the latter was best seen with this weird and pointless piece about hedges …

The last Comm Awards

It has been a long 12-hour day, so let's keep this brief. Tonight was the Department of Communications Awards Ceremony for the year of our lord 2019. Last year I attended the ceremony with Mom and had a great time. Won a few scholarships while I was at it. Only my Mom was able to …

On Fandango and Vive

I've been vaguely hyping this up for a while, so I'm excited to finally talk about it. A few weeks ago I had a lovely conversation Paul Yanover, the President of Fandango. I put together a Spotlight all about his career path from being a software-writing USC graduate to heading one of the largest names in …

Tales from a digital voice

With the end of the semester coming up, we had our last big Society of Professional Journalists event today. It was another guest speaker: Sonya Quick from the nonprofit Voice of OC. Plus donuts. But the donuts unfortunately did not get into this Tweet I did: https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1118629622063611904 This talk was slightly less hands-on than our last guest's …

To the bone

After commitments kept me busy Friday and Saturday, today became my dedicated homework repository. I mostly just kept on my Internship hours hunt. Locking myself away in the house wound up being a really positive thing—as it usually is, in my experience. I got the opportunity to chip away at a lot of my work, …

Giving back

Happy Homestuck day! The phenomenon may have ended a few years ago, but my friend Juan's adjustments to our group Discord server shows that it's still a holiday we celebrate. Amazing how much of an impact that webcomic has had even... Ten years later? God I'm old. Okay, let's move on before I lose my …

Opening a forum

Not long ago, the University Honors Program gave me an opportunity to add "event planner" onto my résumé. Now it let me add "forum moderator" to the list as well. For the last few days, the program has been holding Open Forums to introduce students to the three finalists vying to be next year's Associate …

Cretaceous developments

Yeah that's right, these developments are so monumental that they're one step more advanced than the obvious 'Jurassic' developments joke I could have made to attract attention from Spielberg fans. Unfortunately the dinosaur conceit is also just clickbait. Sorry y'all, but the promise of this neat-o dinosaur ice cream waffle was too much of an …