Not just in this one class today, but throughout the semester, I've been feeling more and more passionate about well, my major, Media Communications, which previously, had just been an accident of sorts where my advisor suggested I use this overhead title that gives more broad recognition than that attached to Video Production. Even though both have mostly the same pre-requisites etc. (if I take all the video credits I need I automatically get a minor in it).

But anyways, so every week my teacher writes comments on my papers about my writing or whenever she hears about openings at local papers, or comments about being a freelance writer, and today in class she made a comment about me being a Journalism or Broadcast Journalism major, and I was like. Yeah, that's wrong actually. Even though I swear she knew this before she just keeps refusing to accept that I'm not a writer, haha. She was like, really? Why do I keep thinking that you are? And of course she was then like, oh well you maybe you should become a journalist. (If she only knew I loath my media writing class--although I hope to get alot of work done on my novel in London, and have started developing another one--but thats just a challenge for myself and soley for my entertainment)

Her comments on my writing however are not what has made an impact on me, but through the writing I've been turning in, and her class, even her as an instructor have made me start thinking alot differently about how much I love the class and materials and how to get more of it and apply it to my life and career, cause I just don't seem to be getting enough of it in the classes we have once a week. Sometimes I feel like I just want her to be my mentor or something so I can follow her around and she can teach me about the world. But in my quest for more of this information, I've also been thinking about what a shame it is that Media Literacy is so sparse in American Education systems today, and how it needs to be changed, that someone needs to be out there teaching this stuff to our youth. I know I wish I had learned more about it earlier in life.

THAT is what got me thinking about keeping my major (instead of officially switching it/narrowing it down to video next fall like I planned) and the possibility of *gasp* becoming a teacher.

I used to actually want to be a teacher but never felt I had something I closely connected with that I was passionate about teaching. Literature and History came closest, but that vs. the pay and school system crap wasn't enough to convince me.

With this, even though there's not much going on right now, I know that there will be an increase in media education being taught at younger levels like High School and Elementary soon. Heck, it already has been for 20-some years in Ireland, England, Australia, and Canada. Which is mostly due to us, since 50% of those countries media is imported from America, they began studying media long ago, curious of the effects all this media from another country may have on their culture and students.

Pretty much every other country in the world has been learning and teaching EXCEPT for us, because we're where it's coming from. Doesn't that seem backwards? It's more obvious to them, since they get their media source from elsewhere, and yet, we're exposed to the stuff we're producing too, and have absolutely no knowledge about it. It's insane.

But anyways, with media being the fastest growing industry in America, and the #2 export (second only to military technology) there will be an increased need for teachers in school systems to educate the masses (as it is mass media)how to analyze what they take in. I may have to move to New Mexico or North Caroline to look for work, but who knows.

So possibilty to continue the line of teachers in the family, and follow in my professors footsteps as well? Maybe.

It's definitely not off the table.

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