Ever since I joined media studies I came across this question very often that why media? Why not engineering commerce or medical. I never spoke up my mind. I use to dough this question every time someone asks me. In the course of reaching towards the end of my degree, I realized that I always wanted to do something different. I never go for something that majority people are doing already that was the sole reason I changed my mind from doing Bachelors in Business to Bachelor in Journalism.
Few days ago, a friend of mine asked me that what it is like to be a media student. I replied and for once, I gave my opinion on this Question. I told her it is as you are different from other, not following the bandwagon. It is as a source of motivation that what you say is important and can have an impact on your readers. It is hectic at times because Journalism is all about meeting your deadlines, if you want to be a successful journalist. It gets annoying for you at times when you have to step out of your comfort zone. When you need to burst the bubble you live in to focus on your story. It is adventurous when you are exposed to different real life situations and dealing them on your own. It makes you feel like a more realistic person in which you zoom in to a more realistic approach to social problems you are dealing with on daily basis. It is like a responsible citizen, a well aware student who is keeping things into consideration that are happening around them. It is like not being immediately influenced by someone. They take their time in making a statement about someone but when they do, they do not go back on their words so that also make them determined as well. Journalist popular personality trait, which I came to know, is their cynicism which is to an extent is true because they are the people who have lived close to human reality which sadly is harsh so journalist do tends to get cynic.
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