Looking Ahead

This semester I've finally realized my passion.  Long before this year I knew I loved to write but I didn't know how I would incorporate this interest into my future.  My freshman and sophomore years of college I tried out a lot of different subject areas, all of which sounded interesting to me, and it was really hard to pick the one I wanted to stick with.  Early on I decided on Spanish as at least one major because I was already so far through the major and I loved the language, but I wanted to pick a second major, and last year that was English Teaching.  However, after I took EDUC 500, I decided to drop the major, realizing that I did not want to teach right out of college.  Then I decided to give journalism a try my junior year.  I had never written for a newspaper before and only had taken an introductory journalism course in high school in which the teacher wasn't the best.  However, I have always loved reading the news and being up to date, and the prospect of journalism intrigued me.  Suffice to say, I have made the right choice, and it's nice that after this semester I finally feel confident in what I want to do.  I have interests in a lot of subject areas, but after a week of starting this news writing course, I got that feeling you only get when you truly know this is the field for you.  It's exciting, and now I just want to put all my energy into becoming the best news writer I can be, and I love finally having some certainty and a goal to work towards.  Also, after taking Tom Haines class, I'm even more excited about going into this field because, contrary to what many are saying about it, it is actually flourishing in the internet age, and I can't wait to be a part of such an experimental time.  I don't know whether I'm going to go into magazine writing or newspaper writing or freelance or public relations, but I just want to continue to write about a whole host of issues and topics and continue to tell stories about what intrigues me in order to share my curiosity of the world with others.