“The sky’s the limit,” Asha Johnson passionately told me after her long shift at News 12 Long Island. She, like many other Old Westbury students, came to this college in hopes of a better future. Asha is quite popular throughout the American Studies department due her perseverance and dedication towards her major, Media and Communications.
She never stops learning and she say, “Observing is what I like to do to build my experience.”
Her first step was to complete her Associate’s degree at Suffolk Community College then she chose to attend SUNY Old Westbury as a transfer student. Asha was unaware of the SUNY Old Westbury campus until her mother told her about this prestigious school with its small class size and it’s encouraging professors, who always make time for their students. Asha volunteerws her hours at the OWTV station, where she spent most of her time training other media and non-media students on how to conduct programs to directing, editing, and producing several other stupendous works. She is also sharp on getting things right and mentions how she is hands on. “I like to watch people a lot. I don’t usually like to jump in so quickly… And I don’t like to make mistakes early.”
She adds,“I want to be out in the field. I want to do videography. I want to be a videographer.”
She now knows what she wants to do. She is quite certain and strong minded about her future endeavors. Further, she is more hopeful than ever that being a videographer is her calling. “I didn’t like staying in the studio all day and then just going home. I didn’t feel like I was myself. I wasn’t being creative. I wasn’t experiencing the world and I wanted to. And that is why I like going out in the field.”
She is proud to acknowledge that the two summer Internships opened her eyes to what the real world beholds. This crossroads experience she initially felt had been eliminated after working several hours each week during those blazing hot summer days..
Asha Johnson, a senior now at SUNY College at Old Westbury is certain that dedication and passion is what one needs to have “to literally be anyone in this field” or any field for that matter.
