<p>for common app and supplements. these are just topics, they fill a variety of prompts for colleges i am applying to</p>
<p>-my school's news magazine was cancelled as a class at the end of my freshman year. journalism was and is something i love and believe is important in schools, so i started a new newspaper from bottom up as a club. during my sophomore year we just had a website, junior year i did an independent study with my adviser and we printed four issues, this year we have our biggest staff yet in a class. so i'll talk about what i've learned from it, how i feel i created something that future students will have for generations, etc</p>
<p>-my grandma was a teenage mother and had to put herself through college. she began working for the university of michigan as a hospital clerk and eventually was pretty high up in the university. so i'll talk about what i've learned from her and how she inspires me</p>
<p>-what i've learned from my job at mcdonald's</p>
<p>-i went to a high school journalism program this summer with students from all over the country, canada, england and china ranging from the very wealthy to kids on full need-based scholarships. i'll talk about how i've never been around such a diverse group of people and how we were all very different but became very close by the end; income level, etc didn't matter</p>
<p>what do you think? any input is helpful, thanks!</p>