There are small things that would make my life so much easier, such as being able to bring coffee into the FC building, learning how to fully function on only five or six hours of sleep and not having to do homework. Unfortunately, I have about a month left of school and none of these things are going to magically happen.
I'll be graduating in a month and spending the rest of the summer on the island before moving back to Vegas. I'm hoping to get an internship with the Make A Wish foundation over summer, because I haven't done an internship yet during college.
I think a lot of people really stress getting internships while in college before entering the 'real world,' because it's a way to get your foot in the door. It's a good way to secure a job after graduating or at least get the experience that other employers will look for. But throughout my four years at HPU, I've realized I don't really like journalism all that much anymore.
Designing pages, which I once loved, is now more of a chore than anything else and writing articles isn't fun for me anymore. I've grown to really love the hospitality industry, having worked in restaurants since my junior year of high school. I know that switching majors during college is very common, but I never switched majors because I didn't want the work that I've already done to go to waste. So I'll be graduating with a degree in journalism on May 17, and although I don't really know what I want to do with it, I'm glad I completed college and pretty soon my life won't revolve around homework. Except for the homework we have for Rachel's class, that's really fun.
Kerstin, I completely agree with you! I am too graduation this spring and moving back home. I thought I was the only one who hasn't had an internship yet, so I happy to hear there are more of us. I'm a journalism major as well, and I kind of feel the same way as you do. I don't really know what I want to do with that either.. I don't think I'm really a journalist at heart which I guess sounds kind of ironic after 4 years of journalism in college...
ReplyDeleteHey Kerstin! Thank you, for sharing your thoughts about journalism. Its ironic you speak as if I was speaking about your thoughts four years later as a journalism student. I was supposed to graduate Spring 2008. My desire and passion to be a journalist was on fire. Five years later, I'll be closing this chapter in the Fall of 2012. Five years later, like you - my LOVE for journalism is still there, but my PASSION for life and people overrides journalism. You're a great writer. Anything you do in life after college, I know you'll succeed in. And succeed with love and passion for and not having it be a chore! ;-) Congrats on finally graduating! God bless you in your future endeavors!
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