{"id":3928,"date":"2018-04-02T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2018-04-02T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:24:18","slug":"kaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/04\/02\/kaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaya: Finding a Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"
Someone recently told me that \u201cniche\u201d is a very niche word \u2014 and that \u201cniche\u201d is a word that I use often. And they were right! I use \u201cniche\u201d a lot. Like, a LOT a lot. As in \u201cusing the word niche is my niche,\u201d a lot. <\/span><\/div>\n

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What exactly does that mean? Google tells me it\u2019s \u201c<\/span>a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.\u201d But to me, a niche isn\u2019t just a place where I\u2019m comfortable or suitable \u2014 a niche is a place where I feel at home, where I\u2019m more comfortable than I would be anywhere else on earth, where I know I\u2019ll always feel welcome and where I know I\u2019ll be happy. <\/span><\/div>\n

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At BU, COM is one of those niches. So is the tiny podcast recording studio on the third floor of the building, as is the COM lawn on a late summer day. <\/span><\/div>\n

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But more than anywhere else on campus, my niche is The Daily Free Press. It\u2019s the well-worn couch with pens stuck in the cushions from bygone pitch meetings. It\u2019s the smell of the office on a Sunday night, a blend of tea and hot chocolate and Late Night Kitchen onion rings. It\u2019s the sense that I\u2019m about to spend my night with the 10 incredible people I\u2019m proud to call my fellow editors and close friends (plus a full-size cardboard cutout of Ron Burgundy).<\/span><\/div>\n

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It didn\u2019t take long for me to find a niche in the FreeP. I joined as a features writer my freshman year, and I knew the moment I walked into the dimly-lit office plastered with newspapers that it was where I was meant to be. But it also took me a while to discover what I really loved doing there \u2014 producing audio journalism for our podcasts.<\/p>\n

The FreeP wasn\u2019t what I had always imagined my college niche would be (I dabbled in humor writing and comedy, thinking that 30 Rock<\/span> was my destiny). But finding your niche isn\u2019t about doing what you think you\u2019re supposed to do in order to achieve something distant. It\u2019s about doing what you love, and what makes you not just comfortable but happy.<\/p>\n

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Part of the FreeP niche includes intricately-planned murder mystery parties. Photo Credit: Caitlin Fisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Finding your niche might happen all at once, when you walk in the door. It might happen <\/span>really <\/span>slowly, at that\u2019s OK too. (It took me a year and a half to realize that audio journalism was the niche within the FreeP that I wanted to pursue.) You might find your niche in the first week of classes, or it might find you two semesters in. <\/span><\/div>\n

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You might find different niches at BU, and that\u2019s great! (My niches also include suburban history and eating Harper bagels at Pavement Coffeehouse on Sunday afternoons). You may find one niche that you really love, and that\u2019s great, too!<\/p>\n

Finding a niche is a bit like falling in love \u2014 when you know, you\u2019ll know. Just remember that sometimes, it might take a while to know.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone recently told me that \u201cniche\u201d is a very niche word \u2014 and that \u201cniche\u201d is a word that I use often. And they were right! I use \u201cniche\u201d a lot. Like, a LOT a lot. As in \u201cusing the word niche is my niche,\u201d a lot.   What exactly does that mean? Google tells … Continue reading Kaya: Finding a Niche<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44485],"tags":[44489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928"}],"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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}