An update on HEATED

It's the last day before the paywall goes up. Here's what HEATED has accomplished in three short months.

My high school didn’t teach me what journalism was. Or maybe they did, and I just wasn’t listening.

Either way, I didn’t know what I was getting into when I signed up for my university’s “Journalism 1” course in the fall of 2008. I assumed—and this is true—it was a creative writing class about keeping a personal journal.

On the first day of class, a curmu…