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Alumni Spotlight: Recent grad describes his first month on the job at ESPN

August 31, 2011

I walk up a set of rickety metal steps on the side of an 18-wheeler and cautiously open a steel door. I am faced with a scene that would make Ray Bradbury shudder: a tiny room jammed with flat-screen monitors playing to a dozen people behind computers wearing futuristic glasses, shouting things like “Go for gold” and “the Flag is down.” But this is not a scene from a foreboding science fiction novel. It’s my life.