Monday, January 28, 2008

First Thing First

School starts this week. Hip-hip hooray?


As a senior, it’s fairly exciting, kind of nerve racking, but also exhilarating. After 17 years of school, who wouldn’t be thrilled? But that’s a 17-year routine that’s about to be broken and reshaped and there is a mystery behind it; you don’t yet know what that routine is going to be changed to. No wonder college grads freak out.

Before I get overly analytical, let me introduced myself. I’m Brianna Carter, senior journalism and theater major at Towson University. I start a super-sweet internship at WJZ Channel 13 News next week, which is the purpose of this blog, to keep track of my experience. I figured a blog would be more interesting than sending emails and journal excerpts to my professor. (Besides, this is a better resume builder!) Most importantly, I graduate in May: so close yet so far away.

So, there’s a bit about me. I also try to maintain a theater blog. You can find it at briannanicoleoriginal.blogspot.com. But the purpose of this is to focus on WJZ. The station is owned and operated by CBS. I’ll be working with all the reporters and producers to really get a feel for the newsroom. Oh! It’s just so cool!

Let me mention how excited I was to discover they have a general assignment reporter position available! Probably won’t be there when I graduate, but I can hope, right?

I would love to know what will happen over the next five months. Since I'm not a psychic, I’m just going to have to work hard. You just never know what the future will hold.

I never thought I would be nervous about graduating, but I think I’m getting there. This surprises me. You see, I’ve always been a “roll with the punches” kind-of girl. I do what I can to make things happen but never fidget when things don’t go my way. I just want to end up in my field, not on another spectrum. Why would I spend four years cramming my head with journalistic philosophy to work retail? No bueno.

I guess I can only wait and see…