{"id":3635,"date":"2018-01-22T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2018-02-26T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T02:20:20","slug":"arianna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/01\/22\/arianna\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianna: Intersecting your Major with your Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout my time in college, I\u2019ve found that it can be difficult to figure out your exact career path, especially as a COM student, because there are so many different directions you could go in. Thankfully, coming into second semester of my junior year, I finally have it (almost) figured out.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two best pieces of career advice I\u2019ve ever gotten are:<\/p>\n

1) \u201cDo what you love, but prioritize what you love AND are good at, because if you pursue something you love but aren\u2019t great at, you might grow to resent it. On the other hand, if you do something you\u2019re good at, you\u2019ll end up loving it no matter what.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2) \u201cWhatever you do, try to find a way to intersect your major and your greatest passion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Film and TV major, I\u2019ve found it hard to narrow down my career goals. I love screenwriting, but I also enjoy production, even if it\u2019s not something that comes as naturally to me as writing. After more than 2 years of trying to balance both, I have fully embraced my ability to write well and my passion for doing so. Here’s an actual candid pic of me working on a screenwriting assignment:<\/p>\n

\"Processed<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, through BU\u2019s Community Service Center and my work study job at the BU Children\u2019s Center, I\u2019ve fallen in love with social justice and working with children. By participating in FYSOP (First Year Student Outreach Project) as a first year and as a staff leader, I’ve learned a lot about social justice, and try to incorporate what I\u2019ve learned into my writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, through working at the Children\u2019s Center, I have learned more about childhood development and my love for working with children has grown so much! I was lucky enough to spend a summer working at a day camp for children and creating a video for the company to showcase the program, which made me realize there is always room to connect working with children to working in the film industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

It clicked that one of the best ways to cross-over all of these interests was to write for children\u2019s television. Writing programming that is educational, inclusive of diverse backgrounds, and mindful of childhood development is something I have the knowledge, skills, and passion for, and with this career goal in mind, I can finish my last 3 semesters of college confident that I am pursuing something I will love.<\/p>\n

As you continue your journey as a COM student (or in whatever major you choose), keep your passions in mind, and keep searching for ways to connect them to what you\u2019re studying! Once you figure out a way to combine what you\u2019re passionate about with your career goals, you\u2019ll feel so much more confident and driven to achieve those goals, and have more fun doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Arianna<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout my time in college, I\u2019ve found that it can be difficult to figure out your exact career path, especially as a COM student, because there are so many different directions you could go in. Thankfully, coming into second semester of my junior year, I finally have it (almost) figured out. The two best pieces … Continue reading Arianna: Intersecting your Major with your Passions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44467],"tags":[44495,44445,1794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}