Lost in the Amazon jungle. Boating through piranha-infested waters at 3 a.m., the only light coming from the relentless lightning storm. This was as distant as Blessing Waung could have been from the comforts of a college classroom.

But it’s only one of the many places the undergraduate print journalism major found herself during a life-changing South American travel guide internship one summer.

“I remember thinking this was the story I was going to tell my kids about me in college,” Waung says.

She’ll have no shortage of exciting tales from her undergrad years and beyond. From a future Peace Corps stint in Africa to working for NBC for the Olympics in Beijing, Waung expects to collect as many life experiences as the stories she gathers for her chosen profession.

“I want to be an international digital journalist – shooting, writing, editing and blogging," she says. "I want to help shape what journalism will look like in 20, 30, 40 years. I really do think my classmates at Annenberg will be the people who change the face of journalism for the better.”