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I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.