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Last year, I had the opportunity to write a feature about the captain of the women’s basketball team for The Michigan Daily. The feature is sectioned off into six different “mini stories,” and the first and last one focus on how timing can change everything. I wanted to explore the topic of timing by gathering examples of athletes making split-second decisions, and I also wanted to research the thought processes behind these decisions. My repurposing essay turned into two New York Times-style pieces focused on the power of timing in sports and the psychology behind it.

I'm not sure when I realized I loved sports, but it's very apparent now. For my Repurposing Project, I wrote about sports psychology after I gleaned an idea from a sports feature I wrote last year. Then, I decided I still hadn't had enough and displayed examples of poor decision-making in sports and proposed ideas to why these decisions are occasionally made. Before this project, I had never dabbled with iMovie, and though the learning process was steep, I'm proud of the progress I made while using it over the course of the semester. 

Just as I gained confidence from talking about books in the fourth grade, I gain confidence now from telling stories. I like being a storyteller. I like giving my account of the news, the one that wouldn’t have been told if not for me. Overall, the process of figuring out “Why I Write” for Writing 220 was cathartic. Some of the parallels between my childhood and now hadn’t been realized until I sat down to write this essay, and I realized that I still love writing for the same reasons.

 

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