Hi, I am Ali Basrai and the blog I am going to write for this class will be named “Ali on Alumni”. Ali on Alumni will be about how students at the University at Albany are living on Alumni Quad, the downtown housing complex. Alumni Quad is approximately 3 miles away from uptown campus, and majority of the students living on Alumni are international students, students who have transferred from another university, and sophomore students. I am a Resident Assistant (RA) living on Alumni, so I will be able to write about the everyday life on Alumni Quad.
I will focus on how international students have adapted to studying their college education at Albany, how transfer students compare Albany to their previous school, how sophomores compare living on Alumni compared to the uptown quads, and overall events that are occurring on Alumni.
The audience for this blog will be all the students and faculty at the University at Albany, students living on Alumni Quad, international students, and people interested in the University at Albany.
Since the next few weeks is the time for housing sign ups, there will be freshman now who find out because of their lottery number they will be living on Alumni Quad next year, so housing sign ups is a trending story that is great for this blog.
There will be upcoming events and programs occurring on Alumni Quad, and those stories will be useful for this blog. Events such as career development week in early March, the can & bottle collection raffle in March, multi-cultural week in late March, and the relay for life week in April are some major programs set to happen.
This semester will be the last semester in Albany for many international students on Alumni, as many are studying here for only a year or even a semester as a part of their countries study abroad program. Many students are enrolled in the international exchange program for one year. Throughout the semester this will be a trending story, and this blog will be good to post how they enjoyed their experience at Albany .
I have ideas to make multimedia projects on showing students living on Alumni through video, pictures, and interviews. Also, I plan to show how Alumni Quad is not as bad as many people perceive it to be, since it is perceived negatively because it is 3 miles away from uptown campus. Below is a link of a video I edited for a project I created with other RA’s on Alumni Quad and it is called “Alumni Quad Promotional Video”. The video is intended to show the history of Alumni Quad, and highlights of the Quad.
“Alumni Quad Promotional Video” – https://vimeo.com/76298212
This project was made as a part of our Residential Life programming requirements so after we created the video, we screened the video to residents as a event. I edited the video, while the other RA’s were in charge of narrating, directing, and camerawork.
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