I graduated from Drake, and I love the Bulldogs (that's me sitting on a bulldog outside Olmsted), but if someone asked why I went to Drake I will always say it was for the journalism school. There was a J-School reunion this weekend and even though I'm only 3 years out of school and serve on an alumni committee, I was still proud to go back for a panel on the changing media and learn about the future of the school. I loved my time there. It prepared me in so many ways for the what I'm doing today, what I'm passionate about, but there's something more than the learning that draws me back. It's the people, the professors like Prijatel and Renkoski who invested in our ideas and taught us how to create magazines and write and be informed journalists. It's the classmates who I spent countless hours with dreaming up a magazine and filling its pages with stories and people. I take it for granted that I still get to do that today.
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