Samantha Gross (’18)<br>makes the most<br> of her opportunities

Samantha Gross ('18) hit the ground running when she arrived at 640 Commonwealth Avenue — and she's still going... and going. The Indiana native was looking for a hands-on educational experience when she chose the Boston University College of Communication (COM). She got all she could handle — and more — just as a freshman. She joined the independent student newspaper/website (The Daily Free Press) and enrolled in a media criticism course taught by the late David Carr.

Since then Gross has completed an internship with the Chicago Sun-Times lifestyle magazine, Splash, risen to editor of the FreeP and is now reporting for the Boston Globe. (Note: She also worked as a web production assistant for this very site.) That's a pretty strong background for a senior let alone a rising junior.

Here's what she told ValuePenguin about her BU experience so far in an interview published August 11, 2016:

From my first semester at Boston University to my most recent, I have been given countless opportunities to not only get involved in journalism classes, but put my skills to use in outside publications. Most schools I was considering didn't have chances for freshmen to take major-related classes at first, but at BU I was able to get into both Introduction to journalism (mostly freshmen) and the late David Carr's Media Criticism seminar (mostly grad students and seniors). That first impression has lasted throughout my experience, and I constantly find myself taking advantage of programs I didn't even know were available to me.

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