Backpacker Intern

Hi, I'm Matt and I tried something new last semester.

I should start by introducing myself, generally how this works right? I am one week away from graduating college. Come September, months after the day I walked across that raised stage, dressed in black, with one of those goofy, tasseled hats on, Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Colorado at Boulder is what my diploma will say.
That's right, I am graduating in a recession- yes, I know. Oh and there's all this Swine Flu business to worry about as well. Let's break out the SARS masks and hand sanitizer already before shaking all those hands at interviews.

Typical of the college student, my mind is starting to wander. Back to the issue at hand. As part of my degree, a semester-long internship is required by the school. Most of my peers took traditional print routes; copywriting for a local paper, covering local legislature meetings, profiles, the economy, etc. All very relevant stuff, I just wasn't all that interested in that sort of thing, so I went after Backpacker's 'new media' internship.

That's where this blog comes in. Well, this isn't so much a blog as much as a collection of work over the last semester while I've been interning at Backpacker.com. Clever title eh? Think of this site more like a portfolio or sorts than the standard blog you are used to.

In the previous posts that follow, I will categorize the type of work I did, link to and post some of the content I worked on and generally give you a sense of what my two-day-a-week duties consisted of.

Let's get started.

The above photo is of me, in the Flatirons of Boulder, taken by my good friend Tara Chacon.