Hello, my name is Tiffany. I am a major in communications
for radio and TV and I would like to know all the behinds of what it takes to
get into the radio and TV world. I have taken RTV before and that was fun, but
it wasn't for me and now I would like to see where I could get with the writing
aspect of the major. This is my last semester at Seminole State and from here I
will be transferring over to UCF even though I would really love to go to UF
because I know they have a great broadcasting program over there, but
unfortunately UCF is closer to home and work. I would really love to intern at
either a radio station or a news station and see if it helps out with what
exactly I would like to do in that field and hope that I could start my career
where ever i intern.
- Tiffany Rosario
I was originally born on the island of Puerto Rico and grew
up learning spanish and english at the same time. Eventually the language that
stuck to me was english; I soon became fascinated with the language which led
me to my love of reading, and then, writing. The little things about english
interest me the most, the grammar the structure, and all the different styles
out there, but my knowledge of those things have faded and I wish to renew that
knowledge with this.
With interest in writing comes my interest in history
itself, whether it be past events, present events, or possible future events,
because I consider the events that happen today history in the making.
Journalism allows me to write what history is happening today whether it be
something tiny like a small-town team winning it big in some sports event, or
something more along the lines of the Water-Gate scandal with former president
Nixon.
I have chosen journalism as a major to broaden my
understanding of the english language as a whole, and to better understand the
different roles that need filling in journalism; not just writing, but design,
social media, political analysis, and more.
- George Rivera
My name is Melissa Merkler. I live in Sanford, Florida. Yes,
unfortunately, it has become “that” Sanford. Alas, we will survive and take up
our cross and carry on. I love my town and wouldn't change it for anything.
I live on a small farm with my husband, my two year old
daughter, 17 year old part-time step-daughter, and my father; along with our
many silly animals.
I am somewhat of a professional student. I really have a
love for learning and the classroom setting. I finally received my general
education A.A. degree this May 2013. That was a tremendous relief. However, I
still have quite a distance to go before my dreams are reached. I have my eyes
set on a PhD in Psychology and I’m giving myself five more years to get there.
As for hobbies, I have my hands in too many cookie jars. My
passion lies in the arts. I started out with simply drawing, which turned into
painting. I have fallen in love with sewing and I think that is where I will
plant myself. My daughter has become my muse along with her 18’’ dolls.
There’s one more hobby that I am dying to revive. I refer to
myself as a cemetery walker. It might sound morbid to some, but I love to
stroll through cemeteries and read the headstones and relish in the history. I
had a blog for it, but lost in a Google crash that I was not able to restore.
There’s a website called www.findagrave.com that I belong to. People submit
requests for images of their family grave sites. I go out and take pictures and
upload them. It’s a nice way to do a good deed and have an excuse to go the
cemeteries.
Lastly, I’m active in my church, and my daughter’s
preschool. I think it’s important to teach the offspring early about God and
simple standard learning. Just this week she impressed me with counting to
three and saying “amen” after a dinner prayer!
- Melissa Burney (Merkler)
The first thing that I like to tell people is that my last
name is Rad. Yeah “that’s rad.” Good one, I’ve never heard that before. It
wasn’t originally Rad. When my grandpa moved here from Iran, their last name
was originally “Mohyeddin-rad.” At customs in the airport, I guess it was too
long and difficult for people to pronounce so they changed it to just “Rad.” If
you haven’t guessed already I am middle eastern. I was born and raised here in
Florida. My mom moved here from Kuwait when she was eighteen and my dad moved
here with his family when he was eight. My family is Muslim. But I’m not. I’m
no religion. I believe in spirituality and believing in facts. There might be a
higher power, I don’t know. That’s just the thing, no one knows. So I’d rather
just believe in what I can prove.
I’ve played the flute since I was in fourth grade and I
started playing the piccolo my freshman year of high school. Yes, I was in the
marching band. Yes, I loved it. NO, I am not a weirdo band geek. I loved
playing music and making beautiful sounds on and off that football field. I
loved combining the chords and notes of each different instrument to make
harmony that even un-musically talented people would get the chills hearing.
Okay, maybe a little geeky but whatever. I like to be in charge and I like the
feeling of people looking up to me. So my junior year I became one of the
officers of the marching band. I was flute section leader. By my senior year I
had moved up to Woodwind Captain and Sergeant, in addition to flute section
leader.
I absolutely love clothes, shopping, and fashion. Which
means I needed to get a job to support my expensive habits. I work at a
clothing store in the mall called “Tillys.” Needless to say, my paycheck STAYS
there. I also like to work out and I think nutrition is interesting.
I love writing, too, but my whole life I wasn’t pushed to do
it. I took two AP English classes in high school and also a creative writing
class. I would love to move to New York one day and do what I love- to write
for a fashion magazine living in a cute little apartment that overlooks the
city or Central Park. Maybe the journalism business doesn’t do as well as,
let’s say, the medical industry, but if I’m doing what I love then it doesn’t
matter what I make, as long as I’m happy.
- Leyla Rad
A Little About Me:
The name is Alicia. I am generally a soft spoken person and
extremely shy. I believe my voice comes out strong through my writing, and that
is how I can be heard. I didn't always know what I wanted to study. I have
changed my major about four times. I am finally back in school after six years.
What can I say?! It only took me ten
years to get a two year degree! However, better late than never.
Why Journalism?
I was going through the job postings after a fallout at my
previous job. Then I thought to myself, if only I could work for the Orlando
Sentinel or even a magazine... If Only... That thought lingered in my mind,
"but I need a degree." So that is when the light bulb went off in my
head and I decided to step foot onto Seminole State. I never dreamed that I
would return to school, better yet, complete it. This time around, I know I
will. I feel it has already changed my life. I strongly believe that if I earn
my degree and do something amazing with my life--my four year old daughter will
follow in my footsteps and do the same.
My Dream Job?
To be 100% honest, I do not know. I hope to figure it out
along the way. One thing I do know is that I am going to chose something that
makes me happy. That way when I look back one day, I will look back and smile.
Thank you for reading! :)
- Alicia Gonzalez
My name is Carissa May, I'm 19, and I love photography. I'm
taking Journalism because often times journalism and photography go hand in
hand, and I decided it would be a useful skill to have. I got interested in
photography when my family and I would go on road trips together. We took
pictures to make memories, but for me, it soon became a passion. For nine and a
half years I lived with my parents and two younger brothers in Papua New
Guinea. It's a country on the other side of the world, just north of Australia.
We moved back to the U.S. in 2006 and have been living in Florida ever since.
In 8th grade, my class took a field trip to the Florida Keys for a week, and I
bought my first camera right before we left. that's when I started taking
pictures of anything and everything. In my senior year of high school I was on
the yearbook staff. I enjoyed writing articles and working on the page layouts.
I really hope that taking a class in journalism will help me improve my skills.
My family and I have taken several road trips which have brought us to places
like Washington D.C., Niagara Falls, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon,
Yellowstone National Park (twice), and various other places in the south and
out west. This has given me a love for traveling as well as photography and
writing. That's why my dream job is to work as a photographer for National
geographic. Hopefully I can get a career in photography that will take me to
various places around the world. But for right now, I'm just working on getting
an AA degree at Seminole State before transferring elsewhere for a degree in
photography. Hopefully my journalism class will get me one step closer to being
prepared for such a career.
- Carissa May
John Nunez: I am bad at introductions, my name is to the left of this sentence.
- John Nunez
My name is Christina Lori Fleming. This is my third year
attending college; however, due to being a transfer student I am registered as
a sophomore at Seminole State. Before Seminole State I lived in Atlanta,
Georgia and attended Kennesaw State University. My intentions are to receive an
A.A degree at Seminole State as a communications major with a concentrate of
journalism and media studies. Then I intend to transfer to the University of
Central Florida and receive my Bachelor’s degree. Experience I have within the
journalism field starts back in high school. I was the lead photography editor
of my school’s yearbook for two years, and this is when I learned my passion
for journalism. I was also a reporter during this process. It helped me learn
the basics of an interview, how to process InDesign, manage deadlines, develop
copy editing skills, and improve upon my photography editing. I also attended a
journalism convention in Washington D.C. during this time period with the other
journalism students at my school. This exposed us to the new ideas and
structures that were being developed at the time encouraging us to expand our
creativity in stories, web design, and alternatives copies for our yearbooks,
newspapers, and magazines. Throughout college I have taken several classes that
have permitted me to enhance my skills as a reporter in journalism. The classes
I have taken are: Human Communications, Public Speaking, Writing for Public
Communications, and Visual Communications. These classes have broadened my prospective
as a journalist, and have allowed me to practice submitting information before
deadlines, guided me in the basics to writing in AP style and to work
efficiently with my peers in group affiliated presentations and projects.
Outside of school I am a bartender at the World of Beer. I have a strange
obsession with my dog Luna, and I enjoy activities such as hiking, kayaking,
music festivals, and traveling.
- Christina Lori
Fleming
My first love in life is music. First impressions of it were singing hymns
with my father in church. I started
playing music formally at the age of ten and it's been an obsession and love
affair ever since. I've performed in
over thirty states, Canada and all over Europe.
I'm currently involved in three projects locally: a reggae/ska/rock
band, Paddington Ambush; a soul/Motown style band called the Sh-Booms; and a
New Orleans-style brass band which has yet to be named.
My second love in life is travel. Being born and raised in Nowhere, Florida, I
was eager to get out and see the wider world around me, a world full of
wonderment and excitement. Since I've
been bitten by the "travel bug", I've been to Europe almost every
year since 2000. My personal favorite
spot in the world to travel is Barcelona.
Wonderful food, artwork (see Gaudi), architecture and people make it a
truly international city with tons of flair and panache.
My third love in life is food. I've told many friends that "I love
everything, from nacho cheese to foie gras." I'm constantly curious and amazed at the
ingredients and techniques involved in creating great dishes. To me, it's a well-forged ally between
science and the arts. Creativity meets
technical abilities.
These are my passions.
- Joseph Meadows
I am one of the few.
The proud. No, not a Marine, but
an Indiana Pacers fanatic. I'm Joey
Metych and I happen to probably be the only Pacers fan you'll ever meet (we're
really an endangered species). While
Pacers pride seeps out of my pores, I love many different teams across various
other sports.
I have had quite
a few articles of mine published online ranging from mixed martial arts to
sneaker care. While this is my first
actual journalism class, writing has always been a passion of mine and
something I have excelled at throughout my life. My hope while working on The Scribe is not
only to improve as a journalist but to increase the quality and notoriety of
our school's newspaper.
Well, that's
enough about me for one day but don't worry: you'll be reading me in the near
future.
- Joey Metych
Lately I’ve found myself much like any other person in their
early twenties: confused, directionless, and poor. Through my trials I’ve
discovered a few things, even if there often are more questions than answers. I
could tell you exactly when a man’s had too much to drink. I could tell you who
you shouldn’t trust to drive behind the wheel (Chad. It’s always Chad.) But if
there’s one talent I’ve discovered within myself, besides being very adept at
being snarky, it’s been writing.
I first discovered my propensity for writing when I was in
high school. When I went to Lake Howell High School, they imposed upon the
students a new style of grading our writing style: having us type out an essay
prompt before unthinking, unfeeling, careless , machines and seeing what we
could produce. Our essay prompt for this was somewhere along the lines of “a
friend who’s helped you.” I quickly discovered that this system had no ability
to detect proper nouns or really validate the absurdity of any story submitted.
And thus I devised a story about me and my personal best friend: Santa Claus.
Santa Claus and I fought in Vietnam together, where he took out hordes of
Vietcong forces. I related the tale of how his suit was originally pure white
before it was drenched in the blood of his enemies. Now, this was back then I
had long hair and a love of rebellion, so it didn’t surprise me when I caught
the attention of the teachers. To my surprise, my teacher, rather than being
appalled, informed the whole class of my art before forwarding it to many
teachers around the campus. I’d become a minor celebrity, as students I’d never
even met recognized my work. It wasn’t art, but it was a start.
Now I’m entering my third year at Seminole State, where once
again I’m struggling to find ways to make it through another math or science
course, but am hoping to find some solace in something where I’m at least
mostly gauged upon by my writing. Thus far I have taken English, English II,
Creative Writing, and Creative Writing II, and have befriended several of those
teachers. It seems that my main skills lie within satire and opinion-based
writing, as well as the borderline absurdist…although once I did write a mean
Lovecraftian tale.
“Who do I want to
be?” is a question that I often ask myself, and then the answer is obvious:
Robert Downey Jr. Seeing as I lack any sort of acting skill or the man’s
charisma (which I’m fairly certain that he sold his soul for,) then I’m forced
to set the bar a little lower. After striking off “dictator,” “sexual deviant”,
and “nothing”, I’ve found where my more practically-based aspirations lie: an
editor for my favorite informative humor website, Cracked.com, or anything that
lets me go to Europe. I’d also love to be Hunter S. Thompson. I haven’t the
drug habit that that man lavished in, but damn it, I have time.
I thrive on controversy. Controversy is the main driving
force behind dialogue. When someone says something that you don’t like, you
have to sit and think about it, then argue a counterpoint. That’s how issues
get discussed, and that’s how things change. I love controversy, which is why
I’ll likely get in a lot of trouble in my future (hey, you’ve been warned.) But
hey, if I don’t end up being able to make it in the professional world, I can
always become Hunter S. Thompson.
- Michael Brown
My name is Sean Doty. I was born on Pearl Harbor Day in
1991. I have lived in Apopka my entire life and I graduated from Apopka High
School in 2010 (Go Darters). Aside from being a Journalist for The Scribe, I am also a bartender at
Orlando International Airport and a seasonal employee at Universal Studios. I
am a major sports fanatic and I am a diehard Florida Gators fan. I enjoy all
sports, but my main favorites are football, basketball and auto racing. Since I
could start processing information as a child, I’ve always considered myself to
be a competitive person. Whether it’s completing an assignment, pushing myself
in the gym, or even a pickup game of football, I’m always determined to be the
best and beat the competition. I guess you could consider me a science fiction
nerd as well, since I consider Star Wars (original trilogy) to be the all-time
greatest set of movies. I have always
had a love for writing, whether it is essays for school or just as a hobby. I
had always envisioned myself doing commentary for a news station or writing for
a national paper, but it wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I
decided to pursue a degree in Journalism. I have dealt with many obstacles
recently to get to this point of my life. From dealing with the emotional
trauma of losing my father last year to overcoming a former obese lifestyle, it
has not been the easiest road traveled. To this day however I have managed to
shed nearly 100 pounds off my figure to get myself down to a healthy weight, I
am currently taking on the “Insanity” challenge and I have recently earned my
Associates Degree from Seminole State College. I have developed a new
perspective on life and during my time working for The Scribe this semester, I hope to encourage others to follow
their dreams and to never give up on them. I intend on transferring to the
University of Florida in 2014 in hopes of earning a Bachelor’s degree in
Journalism and Communications. My goal is to one day be a sports analyst for
ESPN or to be a global reporter for ABC News.
- Sean Doty
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