Subject in College that doesn't matter, matters

There was a subject in College that I use to hate – buying a specific newspaper’s weekly copies, read all its sections and ANALYZE!

It was really, really boring, though. I have with me groupmates that doesn’t exist, and me doing the group work alone.

Never thought this school project is really a job! Yes, it’s a job! You will be paid monthly for rendering a job like this, which is to summarize and analyze what newspaper writers/columnists say about a thing,  a person, a network, etc.

College days.

Editorial and Column writing. It was one of our major subjects in College that help Journalism students (like me) to translate thoughts into a column.

In this matter, we are tasked to do editorial writing about a specific topic and analyze it through looking into our own ideas. Every Wednesday, if I can still remember, upon our professor’s arrival, we will pass on our paperworks. Each one of us will be relieved when we passed it.

Media Literacy and Studies. From column writing to case study thingy. This subject taught me how to critic a movie. I was the one who bought a laptop and speakers for a class to watch a movie (forgot the title). But it was about a doctor who chooses to be “Doctor to the Barrio.”

Enough.

My point is, by having those subjects in College, I am unaware that I have a glimpse of what a Media Monitoring Assistant is doing– and now it is my job!