Finally, the life of the party shows up! I have to thank Mr. Lafferty for finally getting me on ‘da Frank' because it's about time!
Well I'm going to be frank when I say that I was a little skeptical about taking this course. I have been going through the J-School with a clear intention of working in broadcast news. Let me tell you, it has been a heck of an experience. Running around all day trying to come up with a news story out of thin air tests your ability to think on your feet. That's why coming to Opinion and Commentary is a little out of the ordinary for me; I'm usually the one broadcasting other opinions rather than coming up with them myself. My ideas of what I want to accomplish in the future are starting to change.
While most of my news buddies are producing the news this semester, here I am, but for a good reason. When I first came to KU I was gung-ho on working in the news media, but now I have taken a path that many would say is the ‘dark road'. I am studying for the LSAT this semester and plan on taking that damn thing in December, cementing my path to the world of J.D. (No Benson, not Jack Daniels). Opinion and commentary doesn't seem so bad now!
A brief bio, it's pretty simple, I'm just a good ol' boy from Cheyenne, Wyoming and a third generation Jayhawk. I always get many comments about Wyoming, which is great because I now know how lucky I was to live in a place that so many people are so unfamiliar with. Here's to say I wasn't too bummed to be leaving that boring, but beautiful place. My life at college has been wonderful. I have studied some amazing subjects, made wonderful friends, and hell, have even worked at a P&G factory one summer. Not many people can say they did that.
For this intro post I figured I'd keep it to just that, an introduction. I'd rather people know those things about me before I start revealing my opinions. I'll end with a quote to which I try to live by, from Dr. Naismith himself: "Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
Comments (1)
I definitely know where you’re coming from, Alex. Although I was born in Tulsa, OK, I grew up in the fairly small (4 thousand or so population wise) town of Russell, KS. After the hell of middle school and the ‘meh’ of high school, I was definitely ready to get as far away as possible… well, at least as far as KU anyway.
I had never really thought about what I was going to do once I graduated from high school, whether I would practice medicine as the best orthopedic surgeon or if I would end up hauling trash for a living. I suppose I got interested in journalism because of my video game hobby. I’ve read PC Gamer now for about eight years and that was what prompted me to write for the school paper.
I got into the J-School my freshman year and have been there ever since, with the clear intention of writing for a magazine dedicated to gaming. I’d never even considered broadcast as a viable medium for me to work in until I interviewed the owner of the Lawrence Game Guy for a reporting project. I really enjoyed talking with people who were doing something I could relate to while I was ‘working.’ Those few good experiences I had with broadcast really weren’t enough to change my course of action, but it’s definitely interesting to go outside of the normal and into something, however related, different than usual.
Posted by Nick Finnegan | August 24, 2007 1:13 PM
Posted on August 24, 2007 13:13