I distinctly remember the day I switched my major to Journalism. I remember walking out of the Krentz building and calling my mom was the first thing I did because I couldn't wait to share my excitement with her. This was the first time I felt that I was doing something I actually wanted to do.

The time since that day has been difficult because when I tell people I'm a journalism major they say "oh so you want to be a news reporter?" Now, I mean this with all respect to those in the news field, but HECK NO. That is not where I want to take my career. The truth is, I have so many opportunities being a Journalism major. Ideally, I would love to end up in the Editing and Publishing field, but I'm years away from that.

So what do I do in the mean time? I hate writing news stories, because It's not a thing I feel passion for. I write for my school's newspaper, but dread every article I write because it doesn't seem like me. But I recently wrote an article about the discrimination on my college campus. While writing this article I realized that I loved writing for the people that felt they didn't have a voice. I began writing a series of articles about the LGBTQ community on my religious campus because they shared that they felt they weren't accepted, so the first thing I did was talk to the President and Dean of students to make sure they knew that these students felt isolated.

While writing articles about these groups that felt they have been mistreated while on campus or in the local neighborhood, I realized this was something I wanted to continue doing. I want to shout for the people that felt their whispers weren't heard.