Week 1-Mitchell

Hi Everyone!  My name is Tara Mitchell and this is my 5th year at Washburn.  I'm so close to graduating I can hardly wait.  Like most people around here I grew up in Topeka, KS.  When I graduated high school I moved to Rossville which is a small town outside of Topeka.  I consider Rossville to be my hometown even though I spent the majority of growing up in Topeka.  I enjoy knowing all of my neighbors and living in such a tight knit community.  I have several hobbies which include photography, softball, anything that has to do with art, and overall having a good time with my friends and family.  I'm not the most traditional student by anymeans in my opinion.  I started at Washburn when I was 25 and it wasn't methotically planned out.  I just woke up one morning and decided I was going to go to college.  I originally began at Washburn with every intention to major in Political Science with an emphasis in education.  The classes to me were mind numbingly boring and decided if I could barely stand to sit through the classroom to learn how to teach then it probably wasn't for me.  From then out I bounced around from major to major-I went to mass media-back to education-then to respiratory therapy-back to education-and finally landed back in Mass Media and majoring in public relations with a minor in art.  I chose Public Relations as my emphasis because it has so many opportunities to learn such different aspects of all mass media professions, it dables in advertising and marketing, all while trying to appeal to the public and I just love that. 

Aside from school I am currently 29--hoping to still pass for my early 20's haha--and living in Topeka.  I share a house with a roommate, her dog, my dog, and my cat.  I work for a bulk mailing company that primarily handles a lot of nonprofit mailings in massive quantities.  I like my job for the most part.  It's fast paced and keeps me more then busy, probably to the point of overwhelmed.  It's when I'm working 60 hours a week and going to school full time is when I step back and look at the picture and think what am I doing, I think I have too much on my plate.  But sometimes you just have to keep on truckin' and hope it pays off in the long run.