*Note: I am definitely going to brag about my life, but there is some updates too, so stick with me. During this term I am taking a Media Professions course, in which people of different journalistic careers come in and discuss their success stories with us. After each class I leave thinking, “There is no way I am going to be as successful as these people.” Coming into journalism I knew it would be difficult to take the industry by storm. So many people are looking to make a

I love my J100 class. I love my J100 class. When glancing over my class schedule for this term, when I had expected that my Media Professions class would bore me, I have found that it is truly my favorite class. It is my Monday and Wednesday 2 o’clock drug. The man who teaches my class, William Ryan, should honestly consider a career in motivational speaking. I would pay money to listen to him…wait, I already do… In class Wednesday he gave us a basic overview of everything we

I was sat in my J201 lecture today and my professor said something that made me think and immediately rush home after lecture to write down my thoughts on the topic because I had to share this with someone.He said, “What makes a journalist? How is a writer for the New York Times different from your everyday blogger? What makes some content more important than others?” And it totally puzzled me. Here I am, an eighteen-year-old blogger with hopes of becoming a journalist and wr