Thomas Christian's MCOM 100W Blog

 I've never been one to stay in one place, or stuck to one thing, and now the diversity of my life exp eriences is becoming the "X" factor I need to start my writing career: perspective.      At 21, I've changed many times in my life after a wide variety of experiences.      I spent the first 9 years of my education at a religi ous school that was extremely Irish Catholic and conservative.      I became a total stereotype of a white private schoolboy but going t .      In high school,  I slowly realized how completely shielded from the real world, while many of my peers had already experienced the realities of life in the underbelly of San Francisco.      I always had to hide my shock when my young classmates recounted tales of drugs, gangs, sex, and shootings.      I wasn't the only one from my private school to go here either. However, most of my former classmates kept to themselves and...

     I've never been one to stay in one place, or stuck to one thing, and now the diversity of my life experiences is becoming the "X" factor I need to start my writing career: perspective.     My 21 years on this planet have been spent on extracurriculars very different, and throughout all of these experiences I've seen my own identity change quite a bit over the years.      Starting out as an Irish-Catholic private schoolboy in San Francisco, I spent the first 9 years of my education at a religious school that was extremely conservative.       I was a total stereotype (and in many ways still am) as a white private school kid but going into my first of 4 years at an underprivileged, overpopulated high school changed all that.      Looking back on my early high school days, I slowly realized how completely shielded from the real world, while many of my peers had already experienced the realities of life in the un...