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20 Signs You're A Communication/Journalism Major

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20 Signs You're A Communication/Journalism Major

Communication/Journalism is a profession that requires pure honesty and awareness given to the public. Information these days spreads like wildfire, and it's important that all of it is accurate. As a student, you realize that what you are doing is important and can change the world! This is not a dying profession, like some may think. It is growing into something new and fun: Digital journalism.

Only Communication/Journalism majors know the following to be true:

1. You wake up every morning with a million notifications from your 10 news apps.

You MUST stay in the loop with what is going on in the world if you're a comm/journ major!

2. Breaking news excites you.

You refresh your source 20 times in five minutes just to get the latest scoop.

3. The AP Stylebook is your bible.

On the first day of classes, your professor will tell you this. They are not lying.

4. Saying this, you've become a total grammar Nazi.

5. The presence of social media is stressed in all of your comm/journ classes.

Not that you have a problem with this, though.

6. People give you this look when you tell them your major:

7. Deadlines hit you like:

8. You're so used to writing articles, you've forgotten how to write a regular paper.

Are you sure that paragraph isn't long enough?

9. Your Facebook is pretty much you self-promoting your latest article.

NO SHAME.

10. You basically taught yourself how to use InDesign, and now consider yourself a semi-pro.

11. You love that almost everything has turned digital, but still love print.

Keep giving me my Cosmo!

12. Cameras can be overwhelming.

How do I turn this on? I deleted what...?

13. Your laptop is your best friend.

14. You carry a notebook everywhere.

Just in case!

15. You live tweet events... for fun.

"OMG I CANT BELIEVE HE SENT HER HOME!!"

16. You get special access to events.

17. Any time you see an event going on, you instantly think of how you can promote it.

18. Sometimes your grammar slips, and you feel so defeated.

I swear that I had "you're," not "your!"

19. You have a slight coffee addiction.

20. At the end of the day, you're just happy that you are entering a profession that helps get information out to people.


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