After taking this course, I have decided I definitely do not want to pursue Public Relations. When we had the guest speaker from the PR company, I was just not entertained or impressed. After that, I was assigned PR as my front for the media controversy. The entire project made me dislike PR a little bit more. However, it wasn't just the class that made me change my mind.
Mid-February, I went to Maryland with the women's basketball team and had possibly the most miserable weekend of my life. Not only was I missing out on part of my Freshman year, but I was bossed around and yelled at the entire time. That was it for me. Goodbye to my Sports Agent/Publicist dreams. If it was anything like this, I was out.
About a week later, I was trapped in the locker room studying for some midterm in front of the non-stop ESPN that dominates the flat screen. Up popped Rachel Nichols. The girl had no idea what she was saying, or what she was even talking about, but she made working on ESPN seem so easy, so I decided to go after her career as an ESPN sportscaster.
Through the NCAA tournament, the guest speaker from Carolina Week, and talking with a friend who writes for ESPN, I've decided that this is definitely a career path I am interested in, so I guess it's away from PR and off on the new path of Reporting!
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