Student Profile: Melissa Boughton
By Jonathan Graham
Staff Writer
Melissa Boughton is someone who has been places. Many places in fact, from growing up in New Braunfels, Texas to living to Europe for a couple of weeks, and it seems that she isn’t done traveling yet.
She was born in Houston, Texas, on December 3, 1987, in a family that as she grew up moved from place to place fairly frequently. It was a “kind of nomadic” family, according to Boughton. Eventually they settled into the South Texas town of New Braunfels, where she lived and grew up in for the longest period of time.
In high school, Boughton gained an interest in photography that shaped her vision of what she wanted to do as a career. When she graduated a year early, a great achievement by any standards, she received a trip to Europe as a graduation gift. This trip, along with her interest in photography made a huge impression on her life’s goals and world view.
During the trip, she lived with a good friend of hers for three weeks in Germany, during which time she also visited Paris and Luxembourg. The trip showed her so much about how the cultures of other countries and how different they are, that Germany is now where she wants to make a living as a photographer.
“I just like the culture over there better than here,” said Boughton on why she chooses Germany.
After her life-changing trip, and some family troubles back at home, she settled here at UNT to learn about how to manage living on your own. “I needed to find out about those things that your parents always tell you about doing,” she said.
Now 21 years old and a student in the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT, the world has yet to see what impressions will be made by the ambitions and outspoken Melissa Boughton.
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6 comments:
I like it. You use too many commas though; it sounds awkward in my head when I read it. Too many pauses, you could do without a lot of them.
Maybe I'm just mentally reading it wrong :D
I think you are just trying to compare this to essay writing, which isn't what I'm doing. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
Apparently from the graded copy I got back from my teacher I didn't use enough commas believe it or not.
I also remember trying to help you fix some major problems in a college essay about a year ago and you wouldn't fix the extremely clear badly worded run-on sentences I found because you thought it sounded better in your head.
Yeah but I don't put my stuffs out on the internet for all to read and I also don't intend to be a journalist when I grow up :D
And read some GD John Steinbeck. I love his writing, and his sentences are super wordy too. I can read his work no problem! If his style of writing is acceptable, mine should be good enough to get by writing small things.
I'ma be a math teacher... doesn't that automatically void any grammar critiques I get? lol
Are commas not supposed to be like mental pauses of thought though? That's how I've always read them. There were like two places where I thought you put a break where it seemed like too much. There was one sentence I thought you would need a comma to properly separate that thought.
Hey, don't compare Steinbeck to news writing. That's literature.
The commas are there to easily let the reader (not the English major, the average guy coming home from work) get all the specific facts very clearly.
Yes they are also there to help the sentence flow, but that's not the only reason.
Also, I only had about 10 minutes to write it and only posted up the version before I got it back, with a bunch of red marks telling me where i needed more commas.
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