What are your career hopes after college as a communications major? Some students end up working at their alma mater while others hope to snag a job at a television station, digital newspaper or entertainment company.

Senior Markiera Saunders is studying communications with a track in media production. She hopes to become a singer and capture her journey by recording videos of it.

“My career interest is to be a music artist and beyond that in the future to create amazing video content, documentaries, sitcoms,” said Saunders. “[I want to create] things of that sort.”

She spoke on how many of the modern rappers and singers have used social media to advance their careers. Some of those artists include: Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Soulja Boy.

Sophomore communications major Ryland Crisman with a track in multimedia production has some fears of the future.

“There’s a very big chance that the biggest thing you’ll end up doing is covering the parade at a local t.v. station or something,” said Crisman. “I guess my biggest fear for the profession would just be not having a lot of upward mobility or not being able to achieve as much or have as many opportunities as I would like.”

Nutrition on Campus

Students share their thoughts on the eating habits of college students.

Have you ever wondered why college students drink or thought about the effects drinking can have on students? The college years of a student can provide exposure to alcohol and partying, and those things can have effects on students.

Nick Robinette is a senior at Salisbury University majoring in finance and feels like students can achieve a balance between leisure time and schoolwork.

His philosophy is that if students get their assignments and studying done during the week they should have free time to drink or do other things on the weekend.

“I feel like students can drink on the weekends and still get stuff done during school hours,” Robinette said. “…so Fridays through Saturday they can get it done.”

While he does feels like a balance can be achieved he does admit that he’s experienced problems in the past where he lost focus on his academics.

“Definitely I can say that there’s been times where I’ve prioritized drinking when I should have been studying or something,” Robinette said.

Mental health is a topic discussed in college with students. Students have different ways of coping with stress ranging from jobs and internships to the highs and lows of dating.

“As a student you definitely stress about things and drinking can definitely help with it in my opinion,” Robinette said. “In others opinions you might think differently.”

Brooke Davidson, who is a sophomore majoring in accounting feels like it can be tempting to want to hang out with friends and night. She points out the dichotomy between having a social life versus being a successful college student.

“It’s definitely hard because everyone likes going out every single night and you want to go out with them, but you also have exams the next day or homework due that night and you’d prefer to go out sometimes more than likely.”

Davidson feels like she’s able to know when not to go out with friends. She likes to dage (daydrink) on the weekends, but she will decides not to if she has a test or exam soon.

“If I do have an exam coming up, but I know that I have to not go to a dage this weekend,” said Davidson.

There are advantages of drinking she pointed out that one might not have considered.

Davidson believes that drinking can give a student the opportunity to network or mingle with other students. Plus, if a student is not too drunk they might also be able to help out another student who is in drunk than them.

“You definitely meet a lot of people. It sounds weird, but you can also help other people who are more drunk than you because when you go out you’re more than likely drinking and if someone’s worse than you, you can walk them back as a group, you can help them out,” Davidson said.

Dior Kane is a junior and a journalism student here Salisbury University. There are places on campus where students always seem to go to and it depends on each student’s preference.

Kane’s favorite place is Hungry Minds Cafe in the library.

She enjoys spending time with coworkers because they tell funny stories.

She also likes to sit on the orange chairs atound the tables and enjoys hearing others conversations.

“I work there so it’s very fun to just be there with the students and having fun fellow co-workers and there’s always funny stories going on,” Kane said. “I just like to people watch and hear stories.”

Kane has seen all different types of customers since her first semester working in the cafe.

She’s seen students in costumes from thearte class or plays.

“Sometimes they’re dressed in wierd costumes or they’re coming from thearte or sometimes they’re coming from a play, so you always get different characters,” Kane said.

All students have their own unique places they love on their college campus. Some might be outside while other like to be in buildings.

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