I personally enjoyed the news literacy workshop the most because as an aspiring journalist it really resonated with me. I not only found the workshop to be very helpful but interesting as well. You would think that you can trust what you hear on the news but in reality you cannot always trust what you hear. This workshop really taught me that it is important to check your sources no matter how reliable they seem to be. This is currently a very important lesson for me being a college student because I know I’m going to face many situations where I need to evaluate a source. As well as being an important lesson for right now this workshop will definitely help me in the future because as a journalist one of the most important aspects of my job is going to be to evaluate sources and make sure that they are reliable. Distributing false or incorrect information in the journalism field is a disastrous career move that one never wants to make so I definitely think that this workshop was helpful.

I feel that this workshop was my favorite because I was able to connect to the most out of all the others. I feel like it fit right into my field of interest being that the speaker works for the journalism department and the workshop was directly related to journalism. I also think it is my favorite because I think it taught a lesson that I believe can be helpful to everyone, not only students, and not only people interested in journalism.

These last few months have been some of the most stressful months of my life. They have also been some of the best months because I feel that I have learned so much about myself and so much about what I want from life. I only wish I didn’t learn these things in such a stressful manor. I’m the type of person who loves change. I don’t mind it at all and I tend to always embrace it. I find change to be very exciting and I like the feeling of starting fresh. I am just not used to everything changing at once and as much as I don’t want to I have to admit it, this whole process has been very overwhelming for me. I guess the reason for this is I have never realized how used to everything in my life I was. I have always lived in the same house, went to the same school with the same people and never realized how drastic of a change college would be. And just to clarify, yes I knew it would be different and challenging,  if there is one thing I’m not its naïve but I just never acknowledged how drastic of a change this would be. This lack of realization is ultimately my fault but I don’t know what else I was expecting. I feel like I’m finally starting to get it all together and hey guess what….the semester is practically over. My impeccable sense of timing has of course stayed the same throughout all of this. But better late than never, at least that’s what I like to think to make myself feel better. At the end of the day, I know I am a good student and have the grades to prove it, I just need to learn how deal with stress better. I am so lucky to have the life I have and to be able to be going to college. I have everything I could ever possibly want right now and need to stop stressing out before my hair falls out or something, I don’t want to be stressed out and bald. Anyway the point is I need to learn how to relax and enjoy life rather than stress out over it. The End.

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I have always wanted to go away to school. Its something ive always talked about and something my parents were forced to accept. Being from Long Island, the city has been a place I could easily go to with friends and a place ive have wanted to live in for as long as I can remember. In the months leading up to move in day I was so excited and couldn’t wait to be on my own and have the freedom I have now. I thought about everything a college bound person thinks about before moving in. What my room would look like, how I would get along with my roommate, how many friends I would make, how difficult my classes would be and if I would like any of my professors. The one question that never crossed my mind was how much would I miss home? The answer to that neglected question, as much as I hate to admit it, is a lot. Yes I know I’m close to home and I have the luxury of going whenever I like but I still feel like im a thousand miles away. I wanted to like it here so badly, and don’t get me wrong I do. Ive just never been so homesick. I wanted to move out of my house so much that I never realized how important the feeling of home was to me. Every morning I wake up, get on the subway and go to school and then come back to my dorm. When I walk in the door all I have is a bed and a desk waiting for me. I know that I am so lucky to be living in New York City and I am so appreciative of the opportunities that I have been given but I just cant help but constantly wish I was at home. I miss walking into the door and immediately feeling a sense of comfort and security. I almost feel guilty for feeling this way because ive aspired to be in the position im in now for so long. The more and more that I think about the way I feel the more I cant help but think, whats wrong with being at home? Why should I feel guilty for being homesick? Over the last two months I have realized something very important. No matter how old I get or where I am living, home will always be a place of solace, and relief. There will never be a time where I cant walk in the front door and feel comfortable and secure. As I continue to grow older and as my life continues to change one thing will always remain the same….there is no place like home.

These are not songs that define me as a person but that define the experiences I have had. I believe we are all products of our environments and the experiences I have been forced to deal with have made me who I am. I am everything around me. Everyone I have ever met, all the things I have ever seen, and everything I have ever done have made me who I am. The songs I have chosen not only represent the experiences I have had but the way I felt during certain times in my life. Music is everything to me, it’s the one thing in my life that I can always count on to be there no matter what. It has always been therapeutic, and the one thing I go to whenever I am having a bad day, week, or month. It is also the thing I go to when I am having a great day, week, or month. These songs define great moments in my life as well as ones that were not so great. Music is the best way for a person to tell his or her story and I know it is the best way for me to tell mine.  I play three instruments, guitar, piano, and violin. I have been playing the violin and taking lessons since I was 8, and at age 10 I began teaching myself how to play the piano and at age 13 taught myself how to play the guitar. And yes, I know how cliché the whole music is my life thing is but I really don’t care at all. When you find your passion in life it doesn’t matter how many people have the same one it is still yours. The fact that so many people feel the same way about music that I do, does not make it any less important to me. I have chosen these ten songs because at this point if my life these songs bring me back to some of my most unforgettable memories and experiences. All of these songs take me back to times in my life I know have shaped me to be the person I am today. Some are songs that remind me of certain things and others are songs that helped get me through other things. Music is not just lyrics, and melodies, its emotions. And this songs are all perfect examples of my emotions at some point or another in my life

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