One Month Into the Semester
Ok so, I would have loved to do a regular blog, but I just can't. I am not in a good place right now to write about whatever interests me. I'm stressed, I can't think, and I'm dreading my next assignments for a few classes. Next week, there are a couple topics I can write about so I'm excited for that but this week has been rough. There is nothing I really want to talk about except my thoughts about this semester so far. The highs and the lows of course. Shall we get started?
I do not want this to come across as ranty but who knows where I will go in this post. To start off, at the time of writing this I'm just in an anxious but also like an "over it" mood. I have to take a journalism class as part of the PR major. I understand journalism and PR are different but my anxiety is through the roof when it comes to that journalism class. If I could drop it right now, I would. The assignments, I dread. Interviewing people for the assignments fills me with dread and hopelessness. I'd rather do anything else.
That brings me to questioning PR as a major. I get it, PR is PUBLIC Relations. But surely, it is different. Here is how I view the differences between PR and journalism and I think I am correct for the most part. PR is about the company, industry, etc. you are representing. I might be interviewing people but I am doing almost as the company. It's hard to explain but that was always my interpretation of it. Journalism is more of "Hi, I'm a journalist here is my identity." I, Owen Tague, do not have an online identity. I don't have that many friends. My connections? What are they?
Of course, there is overlap between the two but I feel like the parts of journalism I don't like are not present in public relations. It is my dream and goal to represent or serve as the representative for a company, organization or celebrity. Doing that behind-the-scenes work. The thought of spinning news and making it beneficial for a company/celebrity is something that excites me. Journalism does not excite me but PR does.
Anyway that is how I am feeling. It makes me feel unsure and it's not that I outright HATE journalism because I don't. In fact, it's probably a lot of fun if you can do it for a living (or hobby). The struggle lies in that translating it to a class and having deadlines and being seriously graded on it just... I'd rather do anything else.
The thought of having to interview five random people about topics that I don't care about or are awkward and then getting direct quotes from them and then writing a paper about it and including their quotes and getting their contact info and then putting it in the paper and then having to get graded and then the thought of doing bad on it and then my grade suffers which in turn affects my GPA which makes me feel discouraged that a class that is part of my major program I am doing bad in which leads to thoughts of self-doubt on if I should even be doing this. It just leads down a spiral of negativity. I'd rather just do group projects. This is one of those assignments where I'd rather like.... get a root canal than do them.
That assignment is due two weeks from now so let's see if I'll even be here to write about! Kidding! Might delete this blog after sometime but I just had to get these thoughts out. Nothing else is on my mind except this journalism class. Amazing professor though!
I do not want this to come across as ranty but who knows where I will go in this post. To start off, at the time of writing this I'm just in an anxious but also like an "over it" mood. I have to take a journalism class as part of the PR major. I understand journalism and PR are different but my anxiety is through the roof when it comes to that journalism class. If I could drop it right now, I would. The assignments, I dread. Interviewing people for the assignments fills me with dread and hopelessness. I'd rather do anything else.
That brings me to questioning PR as a major. I get it, PR is PUBLIC Relations. But surely, it is different. Here is how I view the differences between PR and journalism and I think I am correct for the most part. PR is about the company, industry, etc. you are representing. I might be interviewing people but I am doing almost as the company. It's hard to explain but that was always my interpretation of it. Journalism is more of "Hi, I'm a journalist here is my identity." I, Owen Tague, do not have an online identity. I don't have that many friends. My connections? What are they?
Of course, there is overlap between the two but I feel like the parts of journalism I don't like are not present in public relations. It is my dream and goal to represent or serve as the representative for a company, organization or celebrity. Doing that behind-the-scenes work. The thought of spinning news and making it beneficial for a company/celebrity is something that excites me. Journalism does not excite me but PR does.
Anyway that is how I am feeling. It makes me feel unsure and it's not that I outright HATE journalism because I don't. In fact, it's probably a lot of fun if you can do it for a living (or hobby). The struggle lies in that translating it to a class and having deadlines and being seriously graded on it just... I'd rather do anything else.
The thought of having to interview five random people about topics that I don't care about or are awkward and then getting direct quotes from them and then writing a paper about it and including their quotes and getting their contact info and then putting it in the paper and then having to get graded and then the thought of doing bad on it and then my grade suffers which in turn affects my GPA which makes me feel discouraged that a class that is part of my major program I am doing bad in which leads to thoughts of self-doubt on if I should even be doing this. It just leads down a spiral of negativity. I'd rather just do group projects. This is one of those assignments where I'd rather like.... get a root canal than do them.
That assignment is due two weeks from now so let's see if I'll even be here to write about! Kidding! Might delete this blog after sometime but I just had to get these thoughts out. Nothing else is on my mind except this journalism class. Amazing professor though!
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