Inspiration

Attending The National College Media Convention was an amazing learning experience. There were so many workshops to attend and not enough time. My biggest issue was some of the workshops I wanted to attend were happening simultaneously. It’s tough when you have to pick and choose.

          Out of all the workshops I went to, “Launching Your Career (or How I Landed My dream Job)” with Katherine Myrick, who works at The Washington Post, particularly stood out to me. She spoke on how she launched her career in journalism at the National College Media Convention in 2006 in St. Louis, MO, by meeting different people at the convention and networking. Taking her advice, the first thing I did when the workshop was over was introduce myself and took one of her business cards. Listening to her tell her story about how she completed four internships before she graduated college inspired me. With my graduation quickly approaching, I probably won’t be able to complete as many as she did, but I definitely will make sure to do as many as I can after graduation to gain even more experience even after I’m done in the classroom.

                                                                                    -Randy Dolmo ’14, Opinion Editor