When students step out of High School into University, not all students know what career they wish to follow. Journalism is a popular guess that students undertake for a University degree. Students enrolled into a Media Communications, or Journalism degree aren’t always looking for, or 100% sure that a career in writing is what they’re after. For some students it was a rushed decision to choose a University or just convenience of being allowed entry into that degree.

Early entry is a popular way of getting accepted into a University for High School students. When high school years are near the end student’s fill out forms for early entry, ticking as many box’s as possible to increase chances as much as possible for an acceptance into any University or degree. While for some students it was a complete surprise to be accepted for a Media Communications degree, some others applied simply because of their skills in English. Alex Stefanovic is a Media Communications student who gained early entry during year 12. Her reason for applying and following the course is simply because she knew she had “strong English skills”, not because of a want to pursue a career in Journalism. When her High School years were beginning to finish, Alex felt pressured to be a part of University by Family and Friends. Media and Communications isn’t a career that Alex saw her self-getting into, and doesn’t see it as what she is meant to be doing.

Alex has greater interests in things such as Special effects or movie sets and interior design, not Journalism.

Another situation that can happen to Fresh University students, is getting into a degree that looks to be something that isn’t of great use to their life and future career. Other students such as Jess Perkins have slight interests in reporting an interviewing, and choose the degree to discover more about those interests. Even with this curiosity, the work, theory and classes still hold no real use to Jess. The final outcome doesn’t pose much help in getting Jess into music production or music writing, where her real interest and love can be explored and pursued. On the opposite side of this sits Zoe Burns who is wholly enrolled in a Media communications degree because of early entry. Zoe finds no interest and enjoyment from writing, especially the creative side of it. The only thing tying Zoe to the course is the possibility of getting involved in Environmental Journalism, where Zoe’s real interest are related to the environment.

For Codie Levien choosing Journalism was a discussion fuelled by the love for the entertainment industry, and the desire to interview the current top celebrities. Even with this interest in Entertainment, Codie felt rushed into the life of University, “people in my ear telling me it would be dumb to miss the opportunity to go to University”. Codie dream to have a job related with entertainment but is still enrolled in a course she isn’t sure she wants to pursue.