Why Am I Involved In Whats The Story?

I suppose that the biggest draw for me is the freedom to pursue any topic I choose. While school english classes are wonderful, they also confine the students within a very narrow boundary of the field of english. We read books and write about them, we do essay after essay but we never go beyond that and into the applications of writing in the real world. With this class I have an opportunity to reach out and use my english skills in a way that they would be used in real life, the freedom to choose any topic and dive deep into it in the way a freelance journalist would is a unique opportunity that may not be found anywhere else. To be honest, every year I get less and less out of my english classes as we do the same things over and over, changing the books we read, and the vocab we learn, but not the fundamental styles of the learning itself . This is also an opportunity to get a greater feel for the real world, where you do not have every detail of what you need to do laid out for you, but instead you have to make your own way to success. This is something I end up doing on a regular basis, seeking out unique opportunities such as this so that I can have a broader sense of the world around me and get to know this I may not otherwise.