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HOW TO WRITE YOUR DREAM INTO REALITY BY DANIEL LOPES
At first, I was apprehensive about writing for the school newspaper. I mean, writing was something I did to make sure I didn’t fail. Once I realized I was writing for an audience of readers, I started actually enjoying writing articles. I wrote about movies, music, sports, anything I could watch, listen to, or get my hands on. I was hooked on journalism to the point where the words just flowed from my hands onto the computer screen. As hard as writing can be, it felt relatively effortless to fill the paper with all of the thoughts that populate my mind. My Word documents became my haven, a mental space where I could go when I was inspired, curious, or anxious.
HOW TO WRITE YOUR DREAM INTO REALITY
BY DANIEL LOPES
They say that “love at first sight” doesn’t exist. “They” must have never seen me watch baseball. From the second I saw my first game as a young child, I was enamored. I spent hours pouring over statistics, looking at baseball cards, and watching the game. I knew from a young age that I was meant to work in sports. I had too much passion and knowledge not to, however, for a long while I didn’t know exactly how to invest my love of sports to create a profitable future. I was good at baseball, but never at the level that would’ve warranted pursuing a career as a player. I wondered for a while if I would find somewhere that I could catch on as an on-camera broadcast talent. All of my unclear hopes changed when I began my freshman year.
It was a simple assignment and it wasn’t even heavily graded. We were reading John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and had to compare a scene from the film to the book. I decided not to write it in a formal way and instead tried to flex my creative muscles. It was just another day of school, so I figured I could make it more entertaining, even in the smallest sense. So, I wrote it in my own voice, how one would write a column for a newspaper. The response wasn’t long or intricate, but it was straightforward and had spots of humor in it, my favorite brand of writing. After I presented it in class, the first response from my teacher, Mrs. Correia, was that I should write for our school’s newspaper.
At first, I was apprehensive about writing for the school newspaper. I mean, writing was something I did to make sure I didn’t fail. Once I realized I was writing for an audience of readers, I started actually enjoying writing articles. I wrote about movies, music, sports, anything I could watch, listen to, or get my hands on. I was hooked on journalism to the point where the words just flowed from my hands onto the computer screen. As hard as writing can be, it felt relatively effortless to fill the paper with all of the thoughts that populate my mind. My Word documents became my haven, a mental space where I could go when I was inspired, curious, or anxious. When one of my favorite players, José Fernández, died, I used writing as a means to grapple with the concepts of death and senseless tragedy. Writing became a coping mechanism, something that I loved so much and was so primal in my mind that it helped me find balance when I felt like I was reeling. When I discovered these feelings, I realized I finally found my career. I had finally found out what I was going to do in my life to fulfill this dream of working in sports.
In the four short years since fatefully stumbling into my passion for writing, I have already done more than I could dream. I became a featured sports contributor for my school newspaper, The Entry. I traveled to Boston and worked with people from the Boston Globe to create a newspaper with other high school students from New England. In the course of that internship, I was able to speak with the president of the Boston Red Sox about race relations at Fenway Park. I’ve even received compliments from a writer at my favorite publication, The Ringer. I write for a sports blog and I aspire to build relationships in college that can help me to achieve my goal of being a sports journalist for a major publication. My hope is that the next chapter of my journey brings me to your communications and journalism program as the next important step I will take to make my “love at first sight” sports dream a reality.