 My name is Hailey Richie. I graduated from Carleton with a degree in journalism and I am a daily news reporter at Metro Ottawa. I wouldn't even know the basics of writing if I didn't go to Carleton, so obviously I wouldn't be in this job without Carleton. But I didn't graduate knowing how to do journalism. I'm still learning how to do that every day. But the lessons I learned from the faculty still stay with me, especially the simple lessons. I had one professor who was a professional. She spent a lot of time at CBC. And she let the whole class know she admitted that she still gets nervous occasionally picking up the phone and making cold calls. And that was a really great lesson to learn as a student journalist. It's not that you're not cut out for this because you still have trouble doing the job. It's just that you take that with you and you learn how to do it and you keep doing it every day.