Post for Week 3

The first week of stories and my first KOMU shift were very interesting. For our first team assignment, we did a story about student parents at Mizzou and the complexity of their lives. They really have no time for a social life and all of their time and effort goes into caring for their children and trying to get through school with respectable grades. We also found that many student parents feel the university does not provide adequate support for them, and the university refused to comment on the matter. I often get really sick of school and feel crammed, but something I learned from this story is how much harder some people have to work to get through school. Since a college education is so essential in today's society, students parents don't have much of a choice but to live two very complex lives with usually very little income in the process. Stories like this make you think how hard some people's lives are.

My first KOMU shift wasn't a blast, but it was alright. It's kind of difficult to get excited about E. Coli. JoBeth Davis, one of her B2 shadows, and I drove out to the Jefferson City Department of National Resources and were shown how lake water is tested for E. Coli. I thought I got some pretty cool photos, especially one that looks inside a blacklight machine, which causes the samples to glow if E. Coli is present. Here is a link to the story I helped work on

E. Coli Story