Gabriel Dance

Mr. Dance was inspring, because he seems like an everyday, normal day. The fact that he is very young, is also very appealing. He insprires post grads, and demonstrates that one does not have to be over 35 to get to the senior level. He later states in his speech that recieving a Bachelors in Computer Science really helped to in graduate school. What I liked the best about Dance was that he did not know what he wanted to do when he was an undergrad. He graduated, had his first job, and then realized that it is not what he wanted to do. Later applying to grad school, and choosing University of North Carolina-Chappel Hill, seems like the best decesion he could have made for himself. He urged those confused students that graduate school is a great experince, especially those instituions that offer scholrships for your education. What appeals to me the most about grad school is that he claims it is a great time to experiment with journalism. Its a time to grow and develop your creative skills. One does not have to wory about cost or other real world scenerios.

Dance mostly adviced to students to “push it to the next level”.  There will always be people that are amazing at their work, one can not expect to be the best at every aspect, but the best thing you can do is work hard, push it to the next level, and catch people attention.  Once you are looking for jobs really now the employer, what the focus on, and reaserach their work. Pitch your stories to preospective employeers and sell your self. Create your pitch and sell yourself, while having a good sense of the employeers work.

What Dance said helped him out the best was that he worked quick. He could act quickly and accruatly develop his work. One of his examples was working with reporters in war zones, like those in hte Lebonease/Israel war.

Gabriel Dance was inspring and it makes me rethink grad school.

Questions

1. Mr. Dance, you stated that in Spain, El Mundo, had some of the best graphics in the World, what different aspects and creative ideas does El Mundo have in Spain, as oppose to the New York Times?

2. Working with reporters overseas, especially those in war zones, do you ever find it difficult to meet deadlines? Especially if something drastic happens?