Senior Farewells: Morgan Ealy

I can’t believe my time at Troy University has swiftly come to an end. Despite everyone telling me to enjoy the college experience and how it will fly by in the blink of an eye, I truly didn’t expect it to fly by as quickly as it did. I don’t even know how to put my experience at Troy into words and have it live up to the reality of how wonderful it was. I'm so grateful for these past three and a half years and all the memories I’ve been blessed to walk away with having forever.  

To the Tropolitan, thank you for all of the opportunities over the years you have gifted me with. From covering such memorable and remarkable events such as the 60^th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, to silly stories around campus that made me laugh, I will cherish every memory you have allowed me to make. I immediately joined Tropolitan without hesitation my sophomore year after switching my major from American Sign Language to multimedia journalism. I can say that was one of the best decisions I could have made during my time here at Troy.  

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Morgan Ealy smiles to the camera.

It's also bittersweet to have joined TrojanVision so late in the game. I never envisioned myself doing broadcast news. I always had my sights set solely on writing for print media or doing behind the scenes work. I never saw myself doing anything broadcast related such as operating cameras or editing VO/SOTS and packages. But as they say, it’s better late than never. I'm glad to have discovered my love for broadcast later in the game than never at all.

After falling in love with the broadcast side of news at my internship over the summer and during my last semester here at Troy, I can confidently say this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.  

I find it so beautiful how journalism has always been what my heart was set on ever since I was a little girl. I loved anything that had to do with writing whether it be a fictional story for fun or an essay for class. I also loved anything to do with recording. I remember always taking videos of anything and everything around me. Growing up, journalism is what I always said I would study once I got to college. 

However, a change of heart made a slight diversion in my plans. Once I discovered ASL, I thought interpreting was my calling. Soon after discovering that ASL didn’t fulfil me and wasn’t the right career path for me, I returned to my roots and set off on my journalistic journey. It felt like coming back home after taking the wrong exit on the freeway. I'm so grateful to have found my way back to what I love best and gained such real-world experience for wherever this new chapter of life takes me. As my time winds down here at Troy University, I'm reminded of what Dr. Seuss once said: “Don’t cry because it’s over.

Smile because it happened.”