I would have never thought that a conversation held under a tree on campus with Nicole Morris would lead me to where I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the many tears and stressful deadlines, I would do it all over again if I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am so grateful for my friend Ronni Reyna and her suspicious snapchat at 1 a.m. on a random morning asking if I would like to deliver papers around town for The South Texan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was broke, so of course I said yes. Little did I know within that same semester I would be offered a position to become Co-Editor-in-Chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through switching my concentration and balancing multiple jobs, I somehow managed to be a part of the team that won 21 awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am so appreciative of the guidance from my professors and academic advisor Taylor Goodspeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Without them I would have walked out during the pagination of The Welcome Guide during the summer. I believe this is where people would put \u201ciykyk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n For my Bella and CJ, I know you both will do great things within The Javelina Media Experience; please promise that you will not break any limbs in the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n CJ, I am talking about you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am glad I was able to take part in the growth of our social media following and program as a whole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Shoutout to the ghost of Manning Hall for keeping me company through all hours of the night, and Ronni for answering my FaceTime calls after InDesign would crash on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For everyone I have interviewed, thank you for sharing your stories with me. It was a pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most importantly thank you to everyone within the walls of Room 165 in Manning Hall for being patient with me, and giving the girl that was mesmerized by a big waterslide a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I would have never thought that a conversation held under a tree on campus with Nicole Morris would lead me to where I am today.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":10482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[153],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":153,"user_id":114,"is_guest":0,"slug":"briana-beltran","display_name":"Briana Beltran","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/48b698f6962fce921ec241ca13987a29.jpg?ver=1778634895","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}