One more week as a first year...a bit sad, but it’s time to move onto bigger things (hopefully). I’m getting pretty pumped for summer. I’m doing this LeaderShape program through Ohio State...it’s all free, by application, at the Newark campus, starting like 3 days after I get home from finals week. It’s a 6-day “national institute,� and we’re one of 70 campuses that do it.

It sounds pretty hard-core, with everything scheduled to a tee, going 12 hours a day, but I’m into that kind of thing. We all have to come up with a “vision,� which I guess is just a big unrealistic dream we have that we’d like to see put into action. Then we all work together to help start putting these crazy ideas into action. Some LeaderShape Alumni include Google co-founder Larry Page, NFL quarterback Brian Griese, and ABC Family senior vice president of marketing John Rood...not a bad selling point.

I’m not sure about my vision right now. I’m thinking about something with seeing a change in media, whether that be more family-oriented and cultural media, or media (particularly television) with a more realistic view of the world, or perhaps less stereotypes represented in media. The thing is, none of these things really work together...at all. They are actually pretty contradictory.

Here’s the site: LeaderShape

I'll keep you updated!