Like any college student, there are phases where I question what I’m doing with my life, but I remind myself that I have this innate writing talent and as cliché as it sounds, it will get me through those rough patches.
I graduated high school as the editor-in-chief of my school paper, which made me confident about continuing writing in college. But during my first year at Ramapo, I only wrote once for the school newspaper and that article concerned overcoming challenges of group work. I have not written a single piece for the paper this year because the proposed article topics are standard and don’t appeal to me. In Newswriting, I had a chance to choose my topics and while it was sometimes a frustrating process, I learned which types of stories I preferred to cover. After our first article was assigned, I felt the pressure to figure out my topic that