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.