It makes sense to introduce myself because well you only get one first impression. So here goes, I’m Matt Dockery and I just began my 5th semester here at Towson University. I am studying Mass communications and haven’t decided on a track yet so I’m exploring all my options and taking class in PR, Advertising and Journalism. I’m 20 years old and a die hard sports fan. I love the Super bowl Champion Giants, New York Met’s and anything to do with basketball.
So, I was raised on Long island and I loved being a kid there, opportunity for boyhood stupidity was at the max (but where isn’t their?). I had great sports franchises to follow. Great pizza, I can’t stress the importance of this enough. The greatest city in the world a 40 minutes away. The beach 20 minutes away. We get some snow, certainly enough for snowmen, sledding, and pegging the mailman with snowballs. Summers were filled with stickball, manhunt and most importantly no school.
As I grew older things shifted from where do we ride our bikes to where? To, were do we ride to get beer? House parties always ending with sever regret from the owner and a strange sense of accomplishment by the masses. Then S.a.t.’s, College essays, Prom, and it’s off to college.
Now I’m here at Towson studying Mass Com really just trying to figure things out and learn a business along the way. Truth be told I don’t know what I want to do but I know I want to where sandals on weekends and never stop playing wiffel-ball.
I have always enjoyed story telling in all forms. A great film, book, song even a knee slapper form your uncle bob. I personally never wrote anything outside of school till well into high school. Last semester I took a gen-ed advanced writing course and had my most enjoyable challenge since coming to school, See I’m a cynic so when it comes to school and mundane memorization I don’t buy in. but when I’m presented with a genuine challenge that is legitimately interesting a jump at it. This class also seems like an enjoyable challenge. I guess those ideas grow from my resentment of the way education as an intuition has become more big business then anything else.(or maybe I’m just pissed because of how much text books cost.) Yea I know rants on a blog wouldn’t make a change but it could entertain and who knows maybe even teach you something. (Though its most likely irrelevant)
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