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is a different breed of animal.

“You anticipate as much as you can,” Heredia said. “I knew it was going to be really busy and that I’d spend a lot of time here, but you can’t really prepare for what it’s actually like. It takes more time than you think.”

Along with his role in the media arts department, Heredia struggles to balance other classes and work and as it is early in the semester he’s still working to perfect this juggling act.

”It’s difficult. I still haven’t completely gotten the rhythm down I don’t think. But it’s getting there,” Heredia said. “I spend anytime I can in the newsroom and on campus. Like right now my last class ended at 11 a.m. and it’s my only class today but I’ll be here until 10 tonight.”

From those first viewings of Pulp Fiction Heredia’s interest was piqued again during high school when he made a connection with a photography teacher.

“My dad always took pictures but when I got into high school I took a film photography class and I got really close with that photography teacher,” Heredia said. “He was an all-around artist but he was teaching photography at the time and he encouraged me to go into film.”

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