Beginning+Our+Journey...

"News is a conversation, the story we tell about ourselves..." (Class Lecture). As beginning journalism students we must bring to our awareness that each of our personalities has been shaped by the world around us. We each have our passions and interests that we are nurturing through education. During the first class, our professors began to teach us exactly what it means to have "your mind constantly being mediated" (Mensing).

Our first video really got a lot of our classmate's blood pumping in response to the information they had just received. It became apparent that we each have our own thoughts and opinions of the dynamics of the world. I heard some of you passionately express your opinions while others sat back and learned. The video pointed out to us that "in order to stay informed, you must stay entertained" (Class Video). In order to do so, we must nurture some key characteristics as journalists: Reason, Argue, Deliberate, and Communicate.

My hope for this class is to do exactly that... learn how to become that person who reasons, argues, deliberates, and communicates with every single person necessary (maybe needing to meet them at their level or not) in order for us to get our information to them.

My psychology teacher shared her opinion with me the other day when I told her I wanted to be a famous writer: "each person has their own story that they're dying to tell, you just have to help them guide their point..." As a class, I'm sure we can accomplish this together =)