@upjourndigital
The Twitter account of my undergraduate department — the supercool UP Department of Journalism — never fails to amuse me.
“Faculty members start streaming in.” Look at how industrious our teachers are!
“Dept office opens today at 8:55am.” Punctual!
“Dep’t office closed today at 6:00pm.” And they don’t shrug off work — up to the last minute!
The account is supposed (among other things, I suppose) to generate nostalgia among us, supercool Department of Journalism alumni.
Oh, thanks for that. (But I guess I’m lucky coz I still go to CMC for my Comm Res MA classes, and “Journdept” — as we fondly call it — is just 27 steps away, so I go there almost every time. Scanning Journdept’s ceiling-to-floor bulletin board is such joy: like a Picasso done after five bottles of beer, with all its trademark notices about student protests (“WALKOUT!’), checked papers that need retrieval from teachers’ pigeonholes, award-winning students and faculty, stuff for sale, org application periods, etc.)
Whatever @upjourndigital may accomplish — such as having a random alumnus raving about it on his blog — I hope it’s for the best. The Twitter account, written in such a way, has its unique charm; at least, I’ve never seen anything like it. I can only imagine somebody at the counter (maybe our beloved Ate Raqs?), observing people coming in and out of the office and comparing those streams of faculty against the department’s schedule — and then tweeting about the event, prosaic as it may be. And then that somebody breathes in satisfaction at the great good done.
“Prof. Tessa Jazmines finished teaching the Public Information & Public Relations class for the day.” – I miss this class!
