Monthly Archives: August 2005

My day at court reporting school

Basically, this is a typical day for me. (By the way, I’m studying court reporting in Manhattan. I studied a while at a different school in Valley Stream, but found my way to the big city and that was an interesting decision.) I get up in the morning and head off to school, dragging my [...]

Stenographers used to have it good

Oh! for the olden days of court reporting. When a pen and paper would suffice, or maybe a basic machine. And plus, things were just so much more romantic then. Now court reporters spend most of their time in front of computers. Ah, if only I could have been born 50 years ago. Oh, and [...]

Woes of a court reporting student

Basically I’ve been studying court reporting in New York since October 2004. I’ve reached 90 WPM, which is nice and all, but when I went in to start in my new class, the school said that I had to pay some fees before I continue to the next class. Whatever that is about. So for [...]