Though the common stigma is that journalism is a dead major, leading to a lifetime full of chasing gigs and the news, it has more to offer than meets the eye. Many people underestimate how much work goes into being a journalism student, and I'm here to show you just how aggravating it can be to hear, "Journalism can't be that hard."
1. As a journalism student, you're constantly writing--whether its an article a day or an article a week, your mind is constantly going with things to do.
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2. You always have to keep up appearances with your professors for connections and networking.
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3. You can never show up late to a class because you know a journalist can never be late to their own event that they're covering.
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4. There's a lot of on-the-field work, meaning that you'll be spending a lot of time outside of class shooting and editing.
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5. More often than not, Journalism students will have jobs that cater to their own major, like working at a school newspaper, an online media, source etc.
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6. But, everybody in your department will be competing for those positions.
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7. Journalism students always are friends with either the linguistics, english, or communications students, since we all have similar classes together.
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8. You always get used to having classes in all the same buildings.
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9. You can never get tired of taking your favorite professor to Starbucks in an effort to get some advice on a future internship possibility.
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10. Journalism students never get tired of questioning even the most reasonable of statements--it's in our nature.
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11. It's inevitable that your eyesight will quickly go to hell from all the computer screens you've been staring at.
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