ambition
Starting next Monday, I am training as Associate Sports Editor for the Maroon, and will be taking over this spring. So long, monotonous weekdays of procrastination, naps, basketball, and free time. Hello, 30 hours a week covering Division III sports. Right now I feel overwhelmed considering that at this point two weeks ago I was bitching about having to write an article on wrestling. It'll be definitely the most responsibility I've ever had, and along with the obligatory mid-quarter workload explosion, the most work I've ever had.
So why is this the best thing that could've happened to me? For the past, say, 18 years, I've felt that I should be a journalist. Part of it is hereditary, part of it is me just flat out being fascinated by the world, and part of it is because I think its the right thing to do--a public service of sorts. So now I have the chance to see if that is right. Spending 12 hours in the offices putting together a paper...If I can't do it twice a week, will I be able to spend a career doing it? If I were to come to this realization two or three years down the line, I'd already have fulfilled my major requirements and done oodles of hours of work towards getting into journalism, only to realize it's not for me. Now I'll find out the truth.
My sense is I'm gonna like it, love it even. I was always pissed I couln't do journalism in high school, and now I'm being thrown right into the fire. With luck, it'll increase my efficiency for classwork and polish up my journalistic skills. But if I don't, then so it goes. I'll just have to find something new to aspire to.
So why is this the best thing that could've happened to me? For the past, say, 18 years, I've felt that I should be a journalist. Part of it is hereditary, part of it is me just flat out being fascinated by the world, and part of it is because I think its the right thing to do--a public service of sorts. So now I have the chance to see if that is right. Spending 12 hours in the offices putting together a paper...If I can't do it twice a week, will I be able to spend a career doing it? If I were to come to this realization two or three years down the line, I'd already have fulfilled my major requirements and done oodles of hours of work towards getting into journalism, only to realize it's not for me. Now I'll find out the truth.
My sense is I'm gonna like it, love it even. I was always pissed I couln't do journalism in high school, and now I'm being thrown right into the fire. With luck, it'll increase my efficiency for classwork and polish up my journalistic skills. But if I don't, then so it goes. I'll just have to find something new to aspire to.