Monday, February 1, 2010

About Me

Hello my name is Brandon Castillo. I come from a big family that I love. My parents have always been very supportive of the dreams and goals I set. I took art classes, played sports, all the activities that I enjoyed as a child. As of now, I am undeclared, but I plan on pursuing Broadcast Journalism. It would be a dream come true to work for a major television station. In high school I was a member of the journalism class for three years. My experience with this class was not a pleasant one. The class was very laggard, and we had published about three to four papers within the school year. I turned towards the idea of Broadcast journalism because I love the attention, and retrieving information from others. My mom says I can be a bit nosy. I like to think of myself as reporting. In my spare time I like to be active, outside playing sports. I am currently playing on an adult slow pitch softball team at Twin Creeks Sports Complex. A weakness that I can improve on with writing is, the length of my pieces. I've found that writing lengthy essays are challenging for me. I need to work on extending my thoughts into something greater. A strength I believe I have in my writing is that my papers are not the same old boring pieces every other student writes. I like to write refreshing papers that readers would want to read. As far as my career in the near future goes; I want nothing more than to enjoy what I do, because thats what's most important to me in life.

2 comments:

  1. I'm sorry your high school journalism experience was not good, but I'm glad you made your way to my class.

    I know what you mean about writing long pieces. I used to be just phobic about it. In fact, when I was in college, I'd drop the class if it required a 10-page or longer term paper. My upper limit was about 8 pages. I preferred doing 3-5 page papers.

    But since then, I've found that if I break those bigger, more daunting projects into several smaller parts, I can deal with them a part at a time ... without freaking. Just a thought. ;)

    OK, here's a couple things you need to fix in this blog post:

    1) This sentence has a dangling modifier: Growing up my parents were very supportive of my dreams. You can find out how to fix that here.

    2) I don't think lagged is the right word. Laggard, perhaps? Look it up.

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  2. It's revised thanks for the feedback.

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