Journalism

When signing up for classes at Los Angeles Valley College in the fall of 2002, I needed a course to fill my schedule. Journalism 101 fit my schedule and that was where it all started. LAVC was located in the Valley, adjacent to North Hollywood, Studio City, Valley Village, and Van Nuys. I had just had an eventful year and a half.

June 2001: Graduate from Central Catholic High School. Move to Los Angeles with girlfriend.

Sept 2001: Fly to New York on a whim and attend Hofstra University on Long Island.
(Here I experience hard drugs, promiscuous sexual encounters with wealthy jewish girls, and blue-blood lifestyles)





Dec. 2001: I board a plane at 12:01 am on the 26th of December leaving for Costa Rica to be with my girlfriend for 6 months.

Jan-May 2002: I travel Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, learn that 19 is too young to fall in love.



June 2002: I return to New York and transfer to NYU. My parents get divorced.



August 2002. I move to Los Angeles, sign up at the junior college, figure the extra journalism course would develop my writing skills to express my feeling over the last year.


I enjoy journalism, teacher recognizes writing, asks me to join the paper. I work my way up from a staff writer to a page editor and eventually win an award from the Los Angeles Times and I am recognized at the 2004 Journalism Association of Community Colleges convention.



There is much more between then and now but this is where it all got started. I have had some hiccups along the way with bad experiences and an awful teacher that made me think,

"I never want to write again."

I was convinced when I started at WSU that I would major in English but after my BA focus on business and seek my MBA. I am still focused on the goal of an MBA and will not finish until complete, but English 402 has revived my love for writing and I am very thankful for this.