>> USC was my dream school.
I finally got in, but I didn't
get into the journalism school.
So it took me three tries to
get into the Annenberg School
for Journalism, and I'm so glad I did.
I'm so glad I had that persistence and
kept going because where I am now is only
because where I am now is only
because of, you know, my education.
So growing up, when my voice
changed and got all deep like this,
people always commented you got a deep voice.
You got to do something.
You got to make money off of it, and
I always, like, well, what do I do.
Become an actor?
Do this, no, I want to be educated.
So I looked around and talked to people, and
people told me you should be a journalist.
You should get into television.
And I've always liked telling stories,
and it just all made sense
to be a broadcast journalist.
And originally, I wanted to be, you know,
an anchor on "Good Morning America",
"The Today Show", move out to New York, and
do all the hard-hitting national stuff, and,
you know, through my career, my
thoughts about it have changed.
And so I was really excited at one point to be
a hard-hitting general assignment news reporter.
I wanted to do investigative work.
Ask the hard questions.
That ended up dying down because I
went to one too many car accidents.
I went to one too many murder scenes, had
to knock on the doors of victims, families,
and for me, it just, it was
really hard to deal with.
You know, you go to school,
and it's really cool,
and when you get to your first breaking news
scene, it's really exciting, but after doing it
for some time, for me, for my personality,
it really took a tool, and I had to analyze,
you know, what do I really want to do in life.
And, which is what brought me back to LA to
pursue something in the entertainment industry.