January 30 Class -- Feature Stories

a.) What I actually know about the practice of PR is very minimum. I feel as if my past classes I have not learned nearly as much as I have learned in this class, and it has only been four weeks. I hope to learn so much more this semester and apply what I learn to the PR world. Ideally, I would love to be a practitioner in the entertainment world, specifically the theatre world. I would love being an event planner for cast parties of Broadway shows.
b.) What I learned in Monday's class was invaluable to writing the feature stories. I had no idea all of the components that go into a successful feature story. Professor Houser was knowledgeable and interesting with his stories of how he creates his feature stories. I think it is very beneficial to have examples of notes from an interview, and seeing the final feature story from those notes. I think that I will be more successful in creating my feature stories from learning what Professor Houser had to offer to us. 
c.) Our team is absolutely on point so far. We have our specific meeting time set up for every Monday 5-6 before class, however, this week we felt that we needed an extra meeting time to prep for the upcoming endeavors. As a group, everyone was flexible and we decided to meet for an hour on Friday which was very exciting to me because many students just want it to be the weekend as soon as midnight Friday comes. I think this says a lot for our group and our work ethic. We want to be successful, and we will meet whenever, however, and do whatever in order to combine our thoughts and be the best possible team we can be.
d.) I believe that I have grown as a practitioner so much in these past four weeks, as I stated above, more than I have in four years. I am learning so many new things that I was not exposed to in other classes, and honestly, I was terrified about coming into this class feeling so clueless. However, this is all a learning process, and what better way to learn and gain experience but to actually work on a project with real clients and real team objectives.