They say that the average college student changes their major about three times. When I first heard this statistic in my preliminary college visits during high school, I thought this was ludacris. No way I would ever change from journalism to anything else. As I stand here today, I still haven't changes my major. I realize that this is probably a letdown considering how I started this piece, but what I have done is add a major.
After starting out as strictly a journalism major, I added a media communications major about three quarters of the way into my first semester. And I love it. Yeah, it's more work and I'm really gonna have to haul butt to graduate in four years (hello, Mayterms) but I know it's going to be worth it.
The best part is that I'm learning new skills that are already making me a better journalist as a whole. Things like writing radio spots no longer seem like a foreign concept to me. And with journalists having to be skilled in more and more areas in order to succeed these days, I can hang my hat on the fact that I have a diverse skill set and at any given time, I can crank out about 216 words on basically any topic.
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