The DoG Street Journal

If you’re not familiar with William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg area nextdoor, you may be wondering why my blog is titled something about a dog, and why only 2 of the 3 letters in the word are capitalized.

Well, as it turns out, the main street of Colonial Williamsburg is Duke of Gloucester Street, and because I’m a William & Mary student, we abbreviate everything. So, Duke of Gloucester street becomes DoG Street. And the DoG Street Journal is one of the College’s campus publications. It’s a monthly news magazine and an updated-daily website, and I’m co-Editor in Chief. Result: it sucks up a lot of my time. I LOVE IT THOUGH.

I’ve been pretty heavily involved with journalism since my high school days, and it’s definitely something I’ve become really passionate about. This is going to make me sound lame, but while I was abroad I actually missed spending hours in the tiny, grossly-furnished DoG Street Journal office in the creepy basement of the Campus Center, putting the magazine layout together and fixing minute editing grammatical and alignment details. That’s when you know you really love something haha.

Being a part of the DoG Street Journal has been an amazing opportunity for me to write as often as want, try my hand at photography, design new page layouts, and cover all sorts of topics on campus — both the totally public and the known-to-only-a-select-few.

I was back down in the office last night for the first time since December, and it was exciting to be back. Staying in the office until nearly 11 p.m. last night putting together our Orientation issue, I couldn’t help but get excited for what this next year will bring via The DSJ.

Want to check out our website? Please do! And if you’ll be on campus this fall, watch for our montly print editions OR contact us through the website if you’re interested in working for us. We’d love to have you join our team. 🙂