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A self-portrait of Kat McDermott
A self-portrait by Kat McDermott.
How journalism changed my life

A column on how journalism can help people grow and find themselves.

By KAT McDERMOTT
fhspress.com Editor
Posted May 24, 2017

Journalism changed my life. It helped me find new things that I love, taught me new skills, and find more career options for myself.

It started when I took the class by chance junior year. It seemed like an insignificant filler class at first, but it rapidly started consuming more and more of my free time. I started writing for fhspress.com, just two stories a week. Then, I started writing more and more. I started helping other students with their stories and eventually I became fhspress.com’s editor. Then, I took it even further by becoming the school’s editor for an extracurricular student paper, the SacBreeze. I know that in word, without any colorful uses of diction that creates an emotionally expressive voice for myself (because if I did I would sound uncomfortably corny), this sounds like a drag. I know that at first I was just being a “yes-man” and doing whatever was asked of me the best I could, but soon started I genuinely enjoying all the work I was doing.

 

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