Bonding and Blogging

Yesterday evening was the first time the entire U Chicago cohort had met since the day of the interviews. Our meeting was taking place at Kaleidoscope Coffee, a cute little cafe in Richmond. Unbeknownst to us, the evening we had chosen was apparently "Mic Night", where members of the community have a chance to play music, read a poem, or present something to the cafe audience. Because of this, we could not sit where Don usually has had cohorts sit in the past. Instead, we pulled a couple of tables together and set up near the door.

The cohort hard at work in our little corner

The evening started off with a round of warm drinks, and then we began working on the blog site. We learned a lot about how to use Blogger and its different functions, and we made decisions on how we wanted our blog to look.

We also took a banner picture to use for the top of the blog, and Don took some headshots of me to use for my profile. We also got to witness Don's impressive Photoshop skills.

We managed to finish the layout and theme of our blog by nine, and so we spent a last fifteen minutes going over how to use MediaFire to share photos and use them on our blogs.

Overall, I had a great time learning lots of new skills and hanging out more with the rest of the U Chicago cohort. I'm looking forward to our next meeting, and spending lots of time with them this summer!