<p>I’m attending the journalism camp this summer in D.C. What should I expect? Is anyone else here planning on attending this camp?</p>
<p>attended last year, but diff program. A lot of fun. lol</p>
<p>thanks for your help! Does anyone else have something to add?</p>
<p>I went to the journalism camp last year : BEST week of my life. The people you’ll meet are simply amazing - everyone is smart and all we did was talk about politics and journalism. Truly a great program. I highly recommend you bring super comfortable shoes since basically every girls’ feet fell off from all of the blisters. Also - bring food for your room. You won’t go to sleep until probably after 12 and you’ll be hungry.</p>
<p>Last summer I went to the Intelligence & National Security PC session, which was at the same time/place as & did a bunch of activities with the journalism kids. Very, very, wonderful week. I met a ton of like-minded kids there - funny how that happens.</p>
<p>I’ll echo what octobergirl92 said about staying up late. At least in my session, they had us up “working” on a project a bunch of nights until 10:30 or so at least. I was fine bringing a bunch of candy bars in my bag.</p>
<p>Every day they’ll give you a PC “Daily” with a nice schedule of everything you’ll be doing that day. That was quite helpful for me given that I like structure and knowing what I’ll be doing.</p>
<p>Last but certainly not to be overlooked is the dress code. We had to wear suits virtually all the time, which was quite difficult a lot due to the temperature outside. It wasn’t fun, but it was still very worth it. So for a packing recommendation: don’t bother packing much casual clothing at all (or even the in-between dress code they mention in the handbook) since you’ll barely need that.</p>
<p>Again, I wasn’t in the journalism session again, but feel free to PM me with any questions or if you’d like a copy of one of the PC Dailies with a sample schedule. Have fun (I know I did)!</p>