2 friends sharing the same dream…
I enrolled as a freshman at Columbia College Chicago right out of high school. I knew I wanted to have a career in the media and at the time, which was in 2005, I thought radio was my career path. In taking some classes in the radio department I liked it, but I did not see myself making a full long life career out of it. In 2006 I officially changed my major to journalism concentrating in magazine editing and writing. Later I discovered public relations and added that to the mix too.
I went to a high school far away from my neighborhood. I lost touch with almost all of my friend’s from elementary school, except one. She knows who she is. We kept in touch all the way through and to this day when people ask how we know each other. We tell them we went to elementary school together, people are shocked by it. While she went to one school and I went to another, we kept in touch and it turns out that as we graduated high school she was going to college in the south suburbs. I was going to school in the city. As her first year went by she realized that she wanted to do journalism too. I was surprised and in the end she ended up transferring to Columbia to pursue a journalism degree. Now both of us are sharing the same school like we did back in 1999. Now in 2008 we both are future journalist, members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalist Columbia College Chapter. As we both pursue our careers we never forget our old days of going to the little Mexican restaurant to eat or being in her quinceanera and leaving some guy at the hall at 10pm on a Sunday night. Never in my life would I have thought that my friend would share the same dream I dreamt of ever since we were in school. As we plan to walk across the stage in 2009 once again, I know that we will not lose touch and continue to shock people of how long we have been friends.
Congrats on the Chronicle! Finally I got published too!
