Today I attended the first meeting for my major – Communications. I love my school, but a huge drawback is that we don’t have a formal journalism major. Communications is the next best option.
After a year of struggling to stay afloat in the sea of indecisiveness that is the Undeclared major - for awhile I thought I would be the first person to start the department of Undeclared at my college - it was a huge relief when I finally figured out what I wanted to do in life.
That’s not to say that I don’t have any reservations about the major I’ve chosen. I keep hearing that I’ve chosen an “athlete major.” And while I think my classes will be interesting, I have a nagging feeling in the back of my head that I could be spending my time studying something more challenging. This is going to sound completely pretentious and arrogant but I’ll say it anyway. I feel like I’m too smart to be a comm major. I know its bad to think that but that’s how I feel.
The other side of the coin is that I don’t think I’m too smart for journalism. Quite the contrary actually. I feel like I have no idea what I’m getting myself into. That I’m not developed enough as a writer to make it in this crazy industry. On top of that, I have no connections.
So today I set out to get the first taste of my major. I wore these awesome Roman gladiator-inspired flip flops I got for five bucks at a consignment store. I thought to myself, “I can handle this.”
As I walked into the room and looked around at my cohorts, I realized a few things:
- 95% of them were female
- 80% of these females would be considered extremely to moderately attractive
- 75% of these females seemed like social “life-of-the-party” types
I’ll admit most of these observations are just speculative (except the first one). But I do know one thing for sure. My Roman gladiator confidence had dwindled to Roman Meal. I didn’t fit into this mélange of mascara’d and skinny-jeans clad blondes, brunettes and raven-haired Asians. I could hear the chorus of flirtatious giggles and ultra-feminine chatter. These were girls who had guys at “Hello” and looked good in slinky black cocktail dresses and, most importantly, knew how to network with a hair flip and lots of cutesy gestures.
Not only did I feel insecure about my major, I didn’t know what to think of my future. I know you need tough skin in this business. I’m ready to work hard and I know I have the motivation. But when your competition comes in the form of a size 2 blonde with legs from here to
Cambodia, where does an underrepresented minority girl, with nothing but the drive of her ambition to carry her, go? The biology department?
File that under, “
Oh hell no.”
6 comments:
You don't need to study journalism in school to work in the field. All you need for journalism is work experience, so you work at your school paper and you get internships. If you can answer "who, what, where, when and why" there's journalism 101 for you. I actually did my first year at college at a school with a journalism major, transferred to a school without one (where I was an editor at the school paper), and worked in journalism for more than a decade until I left to make more money. You can do it.
I'm going to second Wendy and add a bit: I was also a comm major at a school with a minor journalism program and also felt a touch smarter. I just worked my ass off and made teachers notice me, even though I didn't know the first thing about the writing, but I paid attention. It's great that you are blogging (and you obviously write very well)---it definitely gives you experience. Don't worry about looks, but the social thing is necessary. I ultimately ended up pursuing a different profession because I find it almost impossible to make small talk.
Anyhow, you can TOTALLY do it! And 95% of those girls are there for "easy" classes or to coast on looks and attempt TV news. Just ignore 'em!
yep, you have no reason to be intimidated by those girls. I'm usually all about visuals (pictures, videos, etc.) but you turned the whole thing around for me, I reeeally like the way you write (even if it's when you're listing your reasons for starting a blog!!). Trust me, you have NOTHING to be intimidated about.
I'm linking you by the way.
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