Over the summer of 2021, prior to my Junior Year, I decided to apply to the Stanford Daily Remote 3-Week Summer Journalism Program for high schoolers thinking I had zero chance of acceptance. I was then waitlisted soon after applying, and although I was eventually rejected, I became inspired and worked even harder to meet my journalistic ambitions.

The following winter, I reapplied to the program and ended up getting accepted. I spent a total of three weeks balancing school and attending daily webinars held by current Stanford editors like Cameron Ehsan and Tammer Bagdasarian, in addition to attending workshops held by editors of The Atlantic.

Being accepted, and learning how to develop stories with real editors and real members of a college paper, truly gave me insight on to what real-life journalism is like. I worked and collaborated with a total of 80-100 students from around the nation and composed one article.

Although my article did not end up getting published for the actual Stanford Daily, It was edited and worked on with editors, in addition to being independently researched, and composed by myself.

To read the piece, scroll down and click the read more button to check out the published article on my high school's newspapers' website.