Sara Lettus
Reporter

photo by Tim Kupsick

You don’t have to be a country girl to appreciate waking up to the smell of fresh air, the clear kind that rises with the sun and spills over the lake early in the morning – not the exhaust-filled smog of the city.

I didn’t grow up in Montana, but every day that I’m here it feels more and more like I did.

I came to the University of Montana from Kirkland, Wash., in 2002. My parents grew up in Great Falls, and both went to UM. Almost my entire family lives in either Great Falls or Missoula, so it has always felt like a second home. When I found out that UM had an amazing journalism school, everything just seemed to fit.

I have always loved to write, and getting to do it for the school newspaper in high school sort of piqued my interest. I have always been a passionate person, never afraid to express what I think or know. I think people who are afraid to express what they really feel are only hiding from the truth.

My interest in writing has always made me feel I can express myself better on paper than through opening my mouth.

Being in the journalism school has also helped spark my creative side. After taking an editing class, which mostly covered design, my ideas for the future changed. Since then, my interests have shifted from reporting to editing/design. I have always felt that I’m better at creative writing, and through different kinds of classes I have developed interests in writing for magazines or online.

After four years, I’m still a little unsure about what I want to do or where I want to go when I’m done. But I think that is what makes life exciting and beautiful -- uncertainty.

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