Don’t tell me it’s not possible

Before the semester started, I was already working a part-time job and I was a part of both the Jaguar Yearbook and DIGEST staffs. Being a computer science graduate student taking 12 hours this fall and keeping my graduate assistantship was already a lot for me. On the side, I was a reporter for the DIGEST and was the 2005-06 managing editor for the yearbook, until I got a promotion.
I was asked to be the DIGEST’s sports editor, which made me think I have some work to do. I had never been an editor and I already had a problem editing my own stories, but I took on the challenge anyway. I liked sports and this gave me an opportunity to introduce myself to sports programs I knew little about. If that wasn’t enough, due to Katrina arriving in our state, the yearbook’s editor in chief had to withdraw from school to take on his military duties.
I again got another promotion and moved up to the position of editor in chief of the yearbook. This was a bigger challenge because I didn’t know the yearbook development process. My mother asked if I had too much on my plate and I told her no. There were also my co-editors and other staff members from both divisions questioning me.
“How are you going to do both? I think that’s too much,” they told me. This is answer to those who doubted my potential: ‘I did it!’
I’m not like others who are dedicated some of the time. Anything I do, I do it to my best, because what will stand out the most will not be the stories I write, but the name that is on the stories. I accomplished a lot this semester. I maintain the sports section of the DIGEST by covering ALL of the sports programs at Southern University this fall. I met many people and I appreciate and thank them for working diligently with me. I can’t say just yet about what the yearbook will be like, but my staff and I will give our best. So far, I’m proud of the work that has been done, but it could be better. I also have maintained my grades and I am now ready to do my research in order to graduate in May. And I could never forget to mention that my learning experience at Technology and Network Services has prepared me and is still preparing me for my career in networking.
Those of you who say that you are tired and need a break-you have nothing on me. I maintain my job, my schoolwork, my Digest position and my yearbook position and still continue to smile everyday and will continue to do the same next semester. When I leave Southern University for the second time, I hope to hear people say, “That Stroy did a great job!”