Last week I had a really interesting conversation with a new friend during which we discussed our media-related aspirations. I remember at the beginning of this year I spoke only of wanting to work in radio and refused to even consider other fields. However over the last six months or so, and in particular with what I have learnt in Network Media so far, I’m beginning to realise there is a huge wide world out there.

Studying media at uni doesn’t just have to be about becoming qualified to produce radio shows. It doesn’t have to be about becoming ‘qualified’ to do any specific job. I’m gradually welcoming the concept that rather university is a means of opening our minds to the world and teaching us how to interact with it. How to engage with colleagues, how to express our thoughts, how to develop ideas and how to do all of these things in a broad range of ways i.e. different mediums.

Media to me is no longer just about a narrow-minded radio career goal, rather it’s an ecology of networks interacting with each other. I’m fascinated by the way my entire thoughts and understandings on this have so radically changed in a mere six months. I’m so incredibly excited to see where my mind and my goals will be at at the completion of this degree in a few years.