My E-Portfolio

Learning never stops. It is not confined to the four walls of a classroom or the institution of four-year university. Although, those are places where learning does occur. Learning, however, happens every hour of every day as we encounter new things, experience new experiences. In the same way that we take what we learn in the classroom out into the world and put it to use, we take what we learn out in the world and use it in the classroom.

My name is Emma Delorm. I am a student at the Pennsylvania State University majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in political science.

I am also a student of the world.

My first three years in college were by no means easy, but they taught me a great deal about myself and the person I hope to become. When I began my collegiate studies, I enrolled at Elon University in North Carolina. My major frequently changed. I began as a psychology major, then moved to business administration, and then switched yet again to marketing. Yet, for the two and a half years and three majors I spent exploring there, I was never fulfilled - never satisfied. Finally, I decided it was time to make a change, and not just a change in major.

That is how I ended up where I am now - in a student community about 34,000 students larger than where I began, in a major I have found myself to be unsuspectingly passionate about. This semester, as the icing on the cake of my previous college years, has been a time of tremendous academic and personal growth, both in and out of the classroom.

I have found that my academic efforts, interest and success have a direct correlation to my happiness. Because I finally took a step back and took the initiative to change my circumstances and my life path to end up here, at Penn State, I have rediscovered my passion to learn. I have been more engaged in my academic classes and have simultaneously learned a lot from the world around me.

I hope the entries that I include in this portfolio will be a window into my mind and that they will exemplify the ways in which what I have learned in the classroom and what I have learned simply by living are intrinsically intertwined.

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