A fond farewell

I've given one other farewell speech in my life.

As my middle school's student council president, I gave my 8th grade graduation speech. After a string of solid A's in creative writing, I was a highly anticipated speaker. My speech was peppered with standard graduation clichés like, "spread our wings" and "the horizon of our future."

Yikes.

Nonetheless, people expected big things out of me, after all my student-counciling and speech giving. Now, eight years later, I can show them . . .

. . . this blog.

So how'd I end up here? I chose journalism after insisting I work at something significant. Journalism is information which, to me, is empowerment. Journalism is my way to influence the world.

So I enrolled.

Five semesters and three advanced media courses leter, I finally found the medium that shocked my voice to life.

Online is distinctive from other media communication because it informs its audience in a voice you would use with peers. Online has personality. A popular personality too. Online is everyone's friend.

More importantly, no other medium transfers so much control to the viewer. There's no timeline on the web. Readers can come and go as they please, never having to worry that the information they want will be gone before they can access it again. Online makes endless news information possible.

Finally, a media outlet tailor-made for my pupose as a journalist.

I know this is "farewell" but only to tv.ku.edu. I have no doubt I'll cross paths in my future career with many of the insightful and clever minds I've worked with, and been inspired by, in this class.

So cheers to you tv.ku.edu, you've emboldened my path and inspired my sight. You can expect big things out of me if you'd like. Maybe in eight years I'll be able to show you . . .

. . . another blog.