In an age of complaining, adulting, and the oh-so typical college problems, it's probably a rare occurrence to hear that someone actually loves the college he or she attends. It's very easy to talk about everything that's wrong with the college you attend, but you don't hear people talking about the great aspects of their alma mater nearly as often.

Let me say that I wasn't always a journalism major here; I came to our college -- famous for its STEM programs -- as a Health Science major intent on going to medical school. After an entire year of chemistry, labs, biology and other classes I found terrifyingly dreadful, I realized that the science route wasn't for me. Long story short, I have always used writing as a hobby, but found that I could turn it into a career with a major in Journalism, so I changed my major completely.

I didn't realize how fortunate I was to be able to make such a switch that could still fulfill my needs. Despite SBU's rigorous science programs, their School of Journalism is actually one of the few accredited programs for journalism in the country. In many cases, I would likely have had to transfer to a liberal arts college to properly pursue a writing career (and that probably would've been a tedious process).

And this isn't something that should be taken for granted, either. Many colleges don't even have a distinct program for students who want to pursue a career that's very different from what they had originally intended to pursue, yet here I am studying journalism at a school for people who want to become surgeons, doctors, dentists, and the like. For someone who has changed her mind about what career she wants to have at least six times (come on, most of us have definitely been there) this kind of flexibility is a huge asset.

And with that, our school has so much to offer journalism majors that people often don't realize: we have our own study abroad program, "Journalism Without Walls," where we can travel to another country and report on local happenings; we have a special class for the summer and winter sessions, "reporting in NYC," where we delve into city culture and happenings from the comfort of our Manhattan campus; we have professional trips to prestigious news outlets one Friday every month (I got to go to BuzzFeed's NYC headquarters); not to mention, we have so many weekly happenings, including workshops geared toward helping us fine-tune the skills we've accumulated.

I came here for one thing, but found something even better, and I'm pretty darn lucky to be in a place that can provide me with more than sufficient knowledge of the field I want to pursue. We don't have five-star dining, and outlets don't necessarily magically appear when we want them to, but this is still one of the best luxuries here.