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I was like, not for me. So I ended up coming back. That summer I went and did Boys State and I was not involved in the government part of it.
I actually got involved and worked with a producer from MTV to run advertising for the candidates. I was like, hey, this is kind of cool, maybe this could be something I could do. She was like, oh, boy. So she taught me about the Missouri School of Journalism, which is where journalism education began. So I went to Columbia, to Mizzou.
