hi, im madison connor and im a rising senior at hebron christian academy. I am a huge swiftie, as well as a fan of chappell roan, harry styles, olivia rodrigo, and sabrina carpenter. For the longest time I thought I would see sports in my future career, considering that i played volleyball and soccer for years and years, however, this quickly changed when i faced injury after injury and bad experience after bad experience. my mental health as well as physical health was deteriorating, and i decided to quit sports. i was mostly unsure of what would be next until i saw a production of newsies jr., and decided that i wanted to try theater. i tried theater, and i absolutely adored it.
this newfound love of theater led to a reintroduction of my passion for literary arts. ever since I was a kid, I had always expressed my feelings with a pen, writing songs, poems, or even short stories, because i found that symbolism and writing was sometimes easier than direct communication, and years later, this was still true. However, i was still unsure of what to do, especially considering that I had quit sports. I found the answer within my 10th and 11th grade language arts classes. we read literary classics like Julius Caesar, Animal Farm, and 1984, and I fell in love with history and language arts once more, combined with how it ties into modern politics, which led me to my next epiphany: journalism.
Journalism for me is a form of simple communication to the outside world of what is going on, sprinkled in with the occasional opinion. I experienced this the most in my AP Lang class, where my teacher would make us choose a news article on a controversial topic, and report on it. The interesting part of this assignment was that i would always choose a topic that made others uncomfortable, especially since I contradict the average opinions at my school, and I would challenge those opinions every chance I got. This natural form of argumentation so deeply embedded within me led me once more to journalism, because I can tell someone else’s story, using my unique background and knowledge, to justify the unexpected opinion of a girl from a small town and small private school within Dacula, Georgia. Since then, I have been developing my own opinions through hours of research, reading, and experimentation, so that way I can bring a fresh and unique outlook to my otherwise bland high school, and that is exactly what journalism means to me.
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