My first years of college were incredibly nonlinear.
I transferred to Elizabethtown College mid-way through my first year, and for that entire first semester I was an environmental science major. By the beginning of my sophomore year, I had switched to international business, which meant a lot of change in a short amount of time. Somewhere in the middle of all of that, I found The Etownian, even though I never planned on joining at all.
I actually started as a columnist to cover for another writer who was studying abroad at the time, and it was only supposed to be temporary. I ended up liking it much more than I expected, so when she returned, I decided that I wanted to stay on and just picked up a different column to keep writing…