Georgetown as Fork in Road?

username17
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:54:13 +0000

gelato, i had almost the same fork in the road! i turned down medill and the gw political communication program for georgetown. i changed my mind and decided that though i do want to be a journalist, i don’t want to go to journalism school. i decided i’d be a better asset to a news organization if i were more knowledgeable in something specific like government, history, economics, SFS regional studies, etc. than if i actually studied journalism. and while in dc, i could get all kinds of amazing internships and work experience on my own. it does feel riskier because it’s not like there’s a residency program at medill, so i’ll just have to find things on my own. but this is the right choice for me. because honestly, the world of journalism is going to be completely different when we leave college than it is today. so getting an education in something so narrow that’s going through such a rapid change seemed too risky to me. i understand if you don’t trust this source, but a family friend is close friends with a professor at medill, and apparently the professor said if you really want to be a journalist today, major in something else for undergrad and go to columbia for graduate j-school. the medill professor recommended not going to medill. so if you decide to go to georgetown, don’t see it as giving up your dream. see it as taking a different path to get there, a path that might make you more viable in the long run.