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I'm an 18-year-old aspiring sportswriter from Vancouver, B.C., and am currently enrolled in a journalism course that will leave me with a diploma in journalism, along with the choice to stay two more years to receive a bachelor's degree.

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Is it worth staying the extra two years? The courses don't involve much sports reporting -- more hard news and politics -- so you can see why I'm debating staying for the extra two years, since, in my opinion, I know quite a bit about sports, although you can never know enough about the subject.

Thanks,

Scott

Stay in school.

Not to be mean, but to make a point, I just corrected five errors in your brief e-mail. I assume they were

Joe Grimm

just errors of haste. (And I thank heaven for my editor!)

Let's slow down.

During two more years of school, round out your journalistic knowledge and skills with an eye toward developing a specialty such as the business of sports or sports and culture. Over the course of your career, a specialty would likely make up for the salary you will miss and the tuition you will pay while you are 19 and 20.

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Coming Thursday: She'd love a career as an arts critic and reporter, but figures the competition may be too much.

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