Autobiography
Finding my profession, in journalism, has been anything but a short easy trip. I started my freshmen year in college at Lesley college in Cambridge MA. I was a secondary education major, with a focus in English. I had a teacher’s assistant’s position at Quincy high school. Well that changed my mind about teaching and sent me back home to Maine. I enrolled in the University of Maine; and my major was still education at the time. I moved from that to New Media where I lost all sense of what my major really was. I spent the summer flip-flopping back and forth between business and journalism. At the end of the summer it finally came down to the fact that I didn’t know what I wanted, and it was not worth wasting all that money to sit through classes I was not sure of. So I ended up taking a year off, and almost fell into hair dressing school. I realized that I needed to make a difference, not just make people look good. So I am back at The University of Maine. I finally decided to stick to journalism and work my way to graduation day.
I have found that this major, though a little intimidating at first, has everything I have ever wanted to do. I love to write. I love to write about people, about events, about life. I love photography. I love taking pictures of people, places, and abstract. I love to travel. I want to go everywhere and see everything. And I want to make a difference. I know it sounds corny but I truly want to make some sort of difference in this world. I want to tell peoples stories and help them get their stories out there. I am ready to jump into this major and learn more about it. I want to learn how to not just write but write well and get my point across to a mass group of people.
KAT
