Steele had 62 rushing yards against the Panthers. Now, I do.įreshman running back Carson Steele (33) fights with a Georgia State defender at an attempt to get a first down at the 2021 TaxAct Camellia Bowl at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. It was the first real newsroom that I had ever seen in person, and I knew I wanted to spend all my time there. The guide was far more interested in showing me the Chick-fil-A downstairs than anything else, but I tried to peek in through the huge glass windows to see what was inside. When I took my tour in the spring, I remember not being able to go into the UML. Months later, and well into my career at The Daily News, I can say she’s definitely a good person to know. It turned out she ran the Unified Media Lab (UML) and advised The Daily News. I talked to this nice lady named Lisa Renze-Rhodes over the summer, and she seemed to know what was going on in student media. My plan for my first month of school was simple: find whoever runs The Daily News and talk to them, get to know them and maybe get an article published if it was up to par.

Sitting in the press box at the Camellia Bowl at the end of my first semester, preparing to cover my first bowl game on Christmas Day and looking back on how I felt on day one, I found that anxiety comically overestimated. Doubt lived in my head and plagued my daily life, so much so that I didn’t finish packing until 3 a.m. I was petrified that everyone around me would be light-years smarter, more organized and generally have their lives together far more than I did. It seemed a little too much for my skill level. It’s not every day you pack your life into your parent’s minivan and move to Indiana with the dream of becoming a sports journalist and, contrary to what I had told my mother on numerous occasions, I was wildly unsure about college. They made it hard to stand firm in my convictions, and they would always leave a shred of doubt in my mind. Those responses drowned out the positive support I had for my passion.

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