{"id":4552,"date":"2019-10-14T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2019-10-14T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:48:20","slug":"josee-a-journalism-major-walks-into-com-and-walks-out-not-in-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2019\/10\/14\/josee-a-journalism-major-walks-into-com-and-walks-out-not-in-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Josee: A Journalism Major Walks into COM and Walks Out \u2026 Not in Journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I entered COM as a freshman, I wanted to live, breathe, and die on the journalism hill. With my sights set on international correspondence, I wanted to become a digital journalist covering the world\u2019s stories. I had a passion rushing through my veins and a plan set in my heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After my experiences with The Daily Free Press, BUTV10, and WBUR, I found so many amazing mentors and upperclassmen who were driven, talented, and inspiring. If you want to study journalism, COM is definitely the place to be. I fell in love with covering stories around Boston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing for the Freep, I felt like a professional from day one, running around with a notebook and a lot to learn. With BUTV10, I started producing the daily news show The Wire in my spring semester, and it all started to become real.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain energy in COM. Sure, many of us run on little sleep and lots of coffee, but there\u2019s a passion within the community. There\u2019s this unsaid energy that is shared within your peers and your mentors. It\u2019s something you can\u2019t describe until you\u2019re there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of freshman year, with international correspondence in mind, I started planning my dual-degree in international relations. With an IR degree, I had the chance to experience the sort of deep background I wanted to bring to the news desk. In all my classes, I looked at the course objectives through the lens of a journalist. Remaining impartial but observant – thinking about how social sciences and communications can interact.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of three years, including a semester in London and a summer in DC, I realized an evolution in my interests. At first it was hard letting go of my love for journalism. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I still love it. But, through my internship experiences and international relations courses, I noticed that there were other avenues I had not discovered yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I continued to grow through my time at BU, as a person, as a student, and into a semi-adult, I realized that I had to come to terms with the fact that my dreams and aspirations evolved as well. Now, I would love to merge my two interests in IR and journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the technical toolkit from COM and the academic background from Pardee, I want to use the power of narrative and storytelling to build bridges across borders. I\u2019m not quite sure where it will lead me, but I definitely am excited. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I entered COM as a freshman, I wanted to live, breathe, and die on the journalism hill. With my sights set on international correspondence, I wanted to become a digital journalist covering the world\u2019s stories. I had a passion rushing through my veins and a plan set in my heart.\u00a0 After my experiences with … Continue reading Josee: A Journalism Major Walks into COM and Walks Out \u2026 Not in Journalism?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44460],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552"}],"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=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}