The News in My Life

            Throughout my life I have never been one to closely follow the news. I never watched the evening news or read the newspaper. I would usually get tidbits of information from a variety of sources. I would hear news from my family, classmates, teachers, and even Facebook, unfortunately. These sources are often not reputable because I was getting my information through word of mouth and never checked the facts directly from the source. Throughout most of high school I wasn’t all that interested in knowing what was going on. I was too absorbed in school and going out with friends. I lived in my own little bubble and what went on outside of it did not really seem to affect me so why should I care? Of course I would take a slight interest when huge news stories came up and everyone around me was talking about it but other than that the happenings of the world did not really concern me. But as I creep closer and closer to being an adult and becoming part of the ‘real world’ I am trying to take more of an interest of what is happening in the world around me because these events that couldn’t seem to penetrate my ‘high school bubble’ are much more relevant to me as a college student. This class has facilitated this desire to be informed about the news and current events.  Using the New York Times online for this class has been a really useful and reliable source to get my news from. The Times is a source I can trust and one that I feel is relatively unbiased on most of its stories. Although reading some New York Times articles weekly is much more than I have done in the past, it is not nearly enough. Hopefully college is a time in my life when I make keeping up with the news a habit that I can stick with for the rest of my life.