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About Me and my Life of Writing (Before College):

 * My interest in writing began 11 years ago (when I was 11 years old) when I used to write non-fiction short stories, based on movies I used to watch as a child.
 * Poetry became a favorite to me when I turned 15 years old. I would keep a small journal with all of my poems based on love, hate, sadness and any other emotions that high school struck me with.
 * I wrote my first UNPUBLISHED novel in tenth grade titled "In the Heat of Highborough" which was, once again, based off of a gangster movie called "Super Gang" from the 1980s. My friends liked the original so much that I wrote a sequel to it, which was completed after 200 pages.
 * By the time I graduated high school, I had already written 30 poems, 4 short stories and had a LOT of incompleted sketches for more ideas in the future.

**About Me and my Life of Writing (During College)**

 * I started working at The Penn Newspaper my sophomore year of college (Fall 2008) as a contributing writer. My first article was based on the new health facilities in Suites on Maple East.
 * That position was short-lived once I was promoted to online editor within two months, due to a previous employee who left the position. During this time, I continued writing articles about different events on and off campus.
 * During the summer of 2009, I was asked to become the News Editor for the following year and I accepted. I had competition with one other person, due to my status at the time (I was pledging Gamma Sigma Sigma) but I still got the job.
 * I remained the News Editor for a semester and was promoted AGAIN (for the last time) to become the Life & Style Editor.
 * Currently, I have written and published 50+ articles in the newspaper.

**About Me and my Life of Writing (After College)**

 * I plan to graduate as an English major (I like to think of myself as an unofficial Journalism major since I used to be in that department).
 * I completed an internship at WHYY (also known as PBS) last summer and have been asked to become a freelance writing for their online publication titled NewsWorks.
 * I still plan to write a book (don't know about what yet) and have it published.

*Me in a Nutshell*
I am a 5th-year senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with a major in English. I have worked at The Penn Newspaper for three years, writing over 50 articles and counting. I like to learn new languages (Chinese, specifically), read, write, listen to music and discover new things. I have a one-year-old daughter named Gabrielle who is the MAIN reason why I am so motivated, because I know that I am doing all of this for her.