<p>I was accepted EA at Northeastern for Communication Studies, and am thinking that the media studies concentration program is best for me. (I want to work in sports media.) Can anyone give me any information on the program as well as honors in Communications? I'm really torn about whether or not to do honors and I would like some feedback from current students. Thanks!</p>
<p>There are a ton of threads about honors here, just search for them. Why are you torn about honors? There’s really no reason not to.</p>
<p>Do honors. There are no cons. I’m a non-honors student with a lot of honors friends, and really, after freshman year, everyone becomes friends with everyone and gets mixed together–you aren’t missing out on any opportunities or being isolated by being an honors student, there are only advantages.</p>
<p>One of my friends dropped out of the honors program in her 3rd year because she was just too lazy to take the last required honors class or two. She was also a pre-med with such ridiculously stellar grades and unique, high quality ECs that being in the honors program was maybe the least impressive aspect of her resume. Not saying honors isn’t worth doing (it is!), just showing that if you decide honors isn’t for you for whatever reason, you can just drop out of it. And my friend says she would absolutely do honors again for the first few years–you meet great people, have lots of support from advisors, get to live in honors housing etc etc etc. But, you’re also still just an NEU student and are not isolated from regular students (except that you’re in honors housing… but all freshman are “isolated” in a dorm, you’ll branch out through classes/clubs/etc.)</p>
<p>I don’t know much about comm majors… a few friends in it who seem pretty happy, but that’s it. I do know someone who has worked with athletics for co-ops and now works for neu’s Sport and Society, was just offered a job post-graduation that allows him to get a free (!) master’s in sports management. So, definitely opportunities for people wanting to do sports related communications.</p>