Krystal Durbin's Journalism Blog

GED Program at LBCC People have said that high school is the greatest four years of your life, to others that may not have been the case. For whatever reasons they may of had over 1.2 million students dropout of high school every year. That is a student every 26 seconds! After dropping out some people are not sure what to do, getting your General Equivalency Diploma is a great step. In 2016-17 around 384 people enrolled to get their GED/ABE, but only 87 of those people graduated according to the ABS Transition Data 2016-17. The GED program has been around for almost as long as LBCC has been standing. The GED is a set of four subject tests, when passed, proves that you have high-school level academic skills.GED was set in place to help those who needed to further their education. Linda Hobson is the Faculty and Lead instructor for ABE (Adult Basic Education) and GED. She started working at LBCC in November of 1998, and later got a contract February 1, 1999.  She has worked for LBC

Linda Hobson Linda Hobson is a very busy woman she works at LBCC in the Luckiamute hall. Linda is the Faculty and Lead Instructor for ABE/GED. She works extremely hard for her students and fellow teachers. She started working at LBCC 18 years ago and is still working today. This term she is teaching two classes, both of which are math classes, basic math and algebra. She tries to keep a friendly atmosphere and is always ready to lend an ear. Hobson has been living in Oregon for 20 years, but she previously lived in  Southern Arizona. She raised her two sons in Northern Arizona, who have given her five grandchildren. Linda has been married for 44 years. Linda is very dedicated to her family and loves to spend as much time with them as she can.  Linda has many hobbies that she takes up in her free time. She loves to hike with her friend Kelli Wallner, who works at LBCC with Linda. She loves to garden and go kayaking, but her most favorite thing to do is spend time with her

My Struggles as A Journalist Well I guess you could say I struggle a lot with almost everything I do but it is always worth it. Like talking with people I don't know, having anxiety can make that extremely difficult and that of which makes it my biggest challenge.To improve my nest new story I will write down all of my questions beforehand so I won't draw a blank during the interview. Whenever I get really nervous I can't think straight and start rambling about things that are off topic or I start to talk about myself which can lead to people thinking i'm weird. Don't get me wrong  live to be weird but not when you are trying to be professional. My experience with interviews  was low when I started, I was nervous and didn't know what I was doing. When I told my first interviewee (I think that's how you spell that) that I had no experience and that it was my first interview he was really nice about it. He started answering questions I didn't even ask,