Samuel Holleman 2014

Selfanalytical essay My career in journalism started with nothing other than pure jealousy. Back in the seventh grade, my friend Alex was given the opportunity to be on our middle school’s online newspaper staff for its first year. He accepted the offer. When he told me about this, as I mentioned before, I got jealous.

I didn’t even know I wanted to do something like that until Alex started doing it. So when eight grade rolled around, I applied for staff and got accepted. It was during this year I discovered my love for writing editorials.

I could write an editorial. It was something I understood and felt important doing. So I wrote a lot of them to experiment with different areas of the news to write about, only to find that I enjoyed writing about all of them.

I signed up for J1 at the beginning of freshman year, got on Boone high school’s newspaper staff, and became Copy Editor senior year.

Over the course of this year I learned why we have deadlines. I was aware of why they existed, but this year I experienced deadlines from the view of an editor rather than a staffer, where if someone’s work doesn’t get done, I became one of the people who had to do it for them.

I have also refined my ability to work with others throughout the production process. I learned how to do everything I can to assist my fellow staffer at every turn.

Along with those I learned how to overcome hardships during the deadline process. I learned that if I make a mistake, although it feels easier to just not show up, the best thing to do is own it and fix it as soon as possible.