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BUI | Majoring in The Cornell Daily Sun
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This weekend, I, along with thousands of my fellow graduates, will walk across Schoellkopf Field to receive the degrees we’ve worked on for a long four (or five, or six) years. Mine will be in biology and society, but if you wanted me to tell you the truth, I had two majors, the other being in “The Cornell Daily Sun.”
It was a major that I picked up in the second semester of my freshman year, kind of just for the hell of it. I had no prior experience in journalism, but was fascinated by the thought of writing for a wider audience and working for my college newspaper. So I sent out an email asking about the information session and trekked down to the Commons for my first introductory ‘class’ required for the major: Journalism 1110, taught by the managing editor at the time (Hey, Akane!). My first assignment for the class was a story on a diversity dialogue circle that I’m certain fewer than 10 people attended.