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Wynn Wellington. Photo by Chloe White<\/p>\n
What Franklin College may lack in student population numbers, it makes up for in opportunities for those students. As a senior, I can attest to this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During my freshman year, I was on the FC Model United Nations team and traveled to New York City for a week with fellow students to compete at the international competition. Sophomore year I wrote a research paper with two classmates in our constitutional law class, and we got to present it at an undergraduate research conference at California State University, San Bernardino.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the beginning of last spring semester, I embarked on perhaps my most exciting FC experience to date: I studied abroad for the entire semester (four months), in Stockholm, Sweden. Although it sounds cliche, those four months really were a life changing time for me, and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful to have gotten to see the world and step out of my comfort zone for that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In fact, I\u2019ve just started getting \u201cone year ago today\u201d memories from Stockholm, which has me feeling very nostalgic as I sit in the basement of the Indiana Statehouse on this dreary January day.<\/p>\n
Despite remembering that last Jan. 12. I was in Stockholm, I\u2019m very excited to be taking advantage of another unique piece of Franklin College this year: The Statehouse File. It isn\u2019t very often that you find such a small school that allows students to try their hand at being journalists right alongside the pros.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will graduate in May with a bachelor\u2019s in political science and a minor in multimedia journalism. It\u2019s scary to admit to myself and to everyone who asks, but I still don\u2019t have a good answer for what I want to do when I graduate or, as they say when you\u2019re young, what I want to be when I grow up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Statehouse File just happens to be a perfect blend of my major and minor, so I\u2019m excited to know if it helps me answer that nagging question above about the rest of my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Immersive term at Franklin is only three weeks long, and we\u2019re already into week 2, but so far I\u2019ve been enjoying my time and learning a lot. I co-wrote an article that explained a House bill about virtual currency kiosks<\/a>, and I took pictures of a rally hosted at the Statehouse. Our group also got to take a tour of the Statehouse and sit in the House, Senate and Supreme Court chambers (somehow I missed the fourth-grade field trip to the Statehouse).\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019m excited to keep chasing my goals for this short time at TSF and conquering my small fear of walking up to a legislator and hopefully getting them to answer my questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n I already know my last semester at Franklin College will pass in the blink of an eye, but thanks to the many opportunities I\u2019ve had here, I know the world is my oyster.<\/p>\n