So last Thursday in class we, as individuals, selected ideas for our first story after several group discussions. Honestly, I don't think I could have flushed out anything decent without the opportunity to bounce ideas off of everyone else in the room. I mean, I had a fledgling idea of what I wanted to do, but it had no substance. I didn't know where I wanted to go with it. But now I'm full of ideas.
My first story for Advanced News Writing is going to be about school drop-outs. No, not the high-school ones, the college ones. I want to find out more about these kids who come to Witt for no more than a single semester and then suddenly jump ship. Some of these kids even have scholarships provided by the school but even that isn't enough to keep them sometimes. Honestly, this is something that I've always wondered about, so I'm really excited to find out the details.
Then again, I'm also nervous because this is my first story after all. Yeah, I wrote stuff for Beginning Journalism, but I'm going to assume that the grading for this class will be a bit tougher. I usually treat my first class assignments as experiments. After getting a feel of what the teacher expects of me, I can easily work to improve on my next project. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to try my best with this story.
-Fran
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