Taylor Larson

    This week, I face the challenge of meeting my first magazine deadline. I begged for stories through e-mail after seeing the budget for the Honors’ Magazine a few weeks ago and landed one that I thought was pretty interesting: an info on LEGO engineers.

    Of course, writing on LEGOs is interesting. Granted, my sister and I were more interested in Barbies and baby dolls than building cars and skyscrapers, but LEGOs were still a staple in the lives of every child in the 90’s.

    Today, there are all kinds of different LEGOs; the corporation has thought of everything from making models of The Black Pearl to making models of the Tokyo International Circuit. There’s a LEGO set out there for literally everyone (including every 30-year old man who still wants to fulfill his dreams of building and flying The Death Star).

    However, it isn’t the storyline I’m afraid won’t be interesting enough. I was asked to conduct an interview of an actual engineer within LEGO, and I’ve already run out of ideas as to who to contact. I’ve tried Mall of America’s LEGOland; they gave me the number to their corporate office in Connecticut, who were more help if I wanted to buy things from them.

    So I’m crossing my fingers: meet this deadline, and I can go home for Thanksgiving without worrying about anything!