You might have been asked a really random question by a Postie. If you answered, thank you.
It occurred to me this week that Ohio University's campus might pose an odd dilemma for a non-journalism student: No matter who you are or where you're off to, the likelihood of a person with a notebook asking you a completely random question is fairly high.
No one is safe.
I'm kidding, of course. Still, every day we send a Post photographer Uptown to ask our daily "Streetview" question and shoot a few accompanying photos, and I can imagine how being on the answering end of that interaction might be strange.
Questions this week included, "Where are you on your way to?" and, "What are your plans for Sibs Weekend?" Nothing too out there, but it still demanded a few OU students to stop and respond, and that was just for a Streetview question. Throughout the course of the day, several students are probably stopped by a Post reporter or two asking what they think binge-watching Netflix might do to their brain, or whether they're anticipating a rowdy fest season, among several articles our reporters have written or are currently working on.
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If you're wandering Baker Center, your chances of talking to a Post reporter practically quadruple — we're located in Baker 325 and are more likely to find our sources just steps from our newsroom, if not reaching them in Front Room or Alden.
For those students that have stopped to talk to us, thank you. Your perspective impacts and shapes our articles and sometimes leads us to pursue an entirely separate story. Your patience with student reporters both from The Post and other publications on campus allows us to receive real-world experience while talking to some folks that aren't like us — people with notebooks asking random questions.
Emma Ockerman is a junior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Do you have a random answer for her random questions, or want to ask her something yourself? Tweet her at @eockerman or email her at eo300813@ohio.edu.
