Perhaps it began while sitting in the middle of traffic, seeing the remains of a car accident, asking my mother numerous questions and wanting to know every detail.

Maybe it was sitting next to a single mother tainted with bruises, or it might have been visiting the CNN headquarters in Atlanta last summer.

I'm not sure the exact point I fell in love with journalism, but ever since I can remember, it has consumed my life.

I don't know if anyone remembers the Talk Boy, but I remember it quite well.

It was like a hand-held tape recorder that could make your voice sound either really high or really low.

I guess the reason I remember it so well is because it was practically attached to me during my younger years.

I carried it around, pretending I was a journalist, making up stories and asking questions about make believe plain crashes, car accidents, etc. to anyone who would listen.

Elementary school passed and junior high school came.

My friends at the time may remember this better than I do (one of them still makes fun of me). Probably because every time they came over, they were victims of my interviews.

I would make my friends dress up while I pretended to interview them on television as my mom or dad recorded us on video.

Then it was time for the fun part. I was able to watch myself.

And as I watched these so-called interviews, in my head I would actually critique everything I was doing and think of better ways to ask my questions.

Well, middle school was over, and high school quickly approached.

I realized broadcast journalism was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Throughout high school, I constantly talked about where I was going to college and where I would be after I graduated. I told everyone they better look for me in the next few years on one of the major news networks.

I graduated from high school a few years later and my dream was coming a little bit closer to reality; I began college to study journalism.

My freshman year I ditched the Talk Boy (actually I think I did before that) and picked up an actual tape recorder and practiced the way I said different words (I know it sounds crazy) and recorded myself reading stories from my journalism book.

As the years have progressed, I have become a bit more practical, but I still surprise myself more and more everyday. This is my fourth quarter on The Tech Talk, and I am now interning at a television station in Monroe.

Interning there has been one of the best experiences I could ask for. They pretty much treat me like a reporter. I have learned more in the past few months than I ever could while sitting in a classroom.

I'm applying for another internship in Atlanta this summer; maybe I'll get it and maybe I won't, but through these experiences, each day is bringing me closer and closer to my dream of becoming a television anchor.

With any goal I have ever set, I have always believed in myself and succeeded.

Maybe others don't have faith in me, but I do.

Reporting for The Tech Talk, I'm Jennifer Reynolds.

Jennifer Reynolds is a junior journalism major from Shreveport and serves as senior news editor for The Tech Talk.