Like an elephant is sitting on my head

SO NOT IDEAL! Journalism is so hard! I knew it was supposed to be hard but I had no idea I would want to reach down my throat and rip out my stomach just so that I would have something else to think about after every assignment or every little piece of evaluation that counts for like 20% of my grade. I have no idea how I'm going to get the marks for second year.

It's about 15 minutes after I wrote my leads test, which in non j-school terminology is that first paragraph under the headlines that basically explains everything that the article is about. Think of it as the paragraph on the back of a book that people read before buying it. You would think it's easy, but it's NOT. They gave us 30 minutes to write one sentence that is only allowed to be 28-33 words and I needed all that time.

I went through so much scrap paper and so many different sentences to finally get my perfect lead. I copied it onto the test paper and I was so happy with it. I thought to myself, "Yeah! I got this!" I wrote down everything that I had to include but you know what I didn't do? I DIDN'T CHECK, DOUBLE CHECK, TRIPLE CHECK, QUADRUPLE CHECK EVERY SINGLE FACT I STUCK INTO THAT STUPID LEAD! Right when I walked out of the building, it hit me like a giant pile of bricks on my face that I wrote down the wrong date. And apparently, the "when" is supposed to be the one and only thing you cannot CANNOT CANNOT mess up.

So there go my hopes and dreams. I'm going to end up as a homeless freelancer that no one will hire because I don't anally check my facts.