Melissa’s senior send-off: unprecedented, even good times
Melissa Ma
As a Computer Science major pursuing a Master’s degree in engineering (all the relevance it has to this article), my place in the FSView & Florida Flambeau as first a News staff writer and Deputy News Editor was unprecedented, yet one of my most rewarding experiences at Florida State University, full stop.
My dream career has always been to become a writer — it didn’t matter much to me where, but I preferred fiction before my foray into journalism at FSU. My childhood memories consist of reading Blue’s Clues books and writing Magic Tree House fanfiction, though it’d be another decade before I knew the term for it. I filled a dozen 1.5-inch binders with writing and character and plot sketches by the time I got to high school. I was a Writes-Upon-Request nerd who loved creative prompts like “Describe how you would react if you met an alien.”