My Semester at The Onion

So this past semester I interned with The Onion, writing for the Chicago A.V. Club. I got to write some neat stuff, so here is my semester in review.

Here’s the first piece I wrote. Only one of my sentences was spared by supervisor’s editing. Guess which one and you’ll win a hug from me!

Only my second month into my internship, The A.V. Club knew where to find a writer with some street cred for this one.

2010 was apparently a big year for creative burlesque shows in Chicago. I wrote pieces on Burlesque shows inspired by Pink Floyd and Super Mario Brothers.

I got to write about some really cool things that I never would have heard about. A charity Rock Band tournament and a restaurant masquerading for Halloween.

My supervisor told me to “have fun with this one.” I knew that meant, “you better make this one funny.” Guess what? She liked it! Hooray! Easily my favorite piece.

And on my very last day, I had the pleasure of writing about a tribute screening of one of the silliest men of all time.

Their was some pretty boring stuff in there too, but all in all I had a good experience.