What's News got to do with it?

When it comes to news, I think people are like snowflakes: no two people keep up with the same news sources every day. To each individual, news is what you choose to make it.

For some, that may be watching CNN every evening or watching E! News all day. Everyone is different. For me, it varies from day to day. I try to get as much in as a can without putting my brain on overload. As much as I hate to admit it, I keep up with celebrity news just as much as the next person but I also mix in your everyday news about what's going in the world. To be honest, I think sports take up the majority of my news intake each day. Which to me, seems ok, as long as I'm able to tell you what's going on in Iraq too.

When you're young, you don't realize how important it is to keep up with the news. The most important thing in high school is worrying about who your going to vote for Prom King and Queen. But as we get older, we have to realize the safety net we once had is gone and keeping up with the news is the way to stay afloat.

Life and Times of Maddie Kind

When you're 18 years-old just getting ready to head off to college, do you know what you want to do for the rest of your life?

I thought I did. I knew for years that I wanted to be a plastic surgeon and to excel in medicine. My dad is a doctor, so I automatically got insights to health care. But once I got in to my second year of school, I knew that no matter how much money I was going to make, no matter how successful I could be as a doctor, I wouldn't be happy.

So that's when I decided to look within myself and figure out what I was made of.

It turns out, I am an aspiring journalist. Now, all my focus is centered on making it as a writer in New York City. For years, I haven't been able to think of anything I want more than this. So, I have begun my trek to the top. With only a year left in school, I couldn't be more excited to open a new chapter in my life.

As hard as it is to make it in New York, I have the drive and determination to prove to myself and others that I was made to be a journalist. And if I don't make it the first go around, there's always graduate school at NYU. So after I graduate from the wonderful The University of Tennessee, it's off to the Big Apple to see if this small town girl can make it in her uptown world.