Episode 26: Allison Prang (2010-12, 15)

Image you're in high school. Your dream is to go to Northwestern University and study journalism. It's your biggest goal. Your ambition. But you don't get in. What now? You settle for your second choice, the University of Missouri.

 

Except you don't just settle.

 

You decide you're going to make the most of the opportunity before you.  You attend summer welcome, and there you discover the Maneater. It's like this place was just waiting for you. And before you know it, you're writing article for them -- and you haven't even moved to Columbia yet. By the time the fall semester officially begins, you're already a staff writer.

 

And you're just getting started. 

 

If one of the ingredients of success at the Maneater is enthusiasm, my next guest definitely has it Today, Allison Prang is a reporter and writer living in Washington, D.C. This is her story.