Christine Grade 10 New Jersey A. Christine, Like many of my fellow journalists, I thought that by going into journalism I'd help make the world a better place.
Many journalists are idealists at heart.
I was in college, studying German literature, and what I was learning seemed so abstract, so unconnected to the world around me, that in my senior year I drifted away from German literature and began working on my school newspaper. John Grade 7 New York A. John, My parents encouraged me to read. Reading the newspaper was taken seriously in our house. But I think the key part of the paper was the Cryptoquote. When I was your age, my 7th grade English teacher, Doug Hale, gave us extra credit for doing the Cryptoquote, a word puzzle that ran in the morning newspaper.