The idealist

This made me laugh today: The five people you meet in journalism school.

I was definitely the idealist. From the story:

The idealist is on a first-name basis with his/her professors and can normally be found in the journalism school at all hours –class or no class. But when they are in class, the professor will bring up their work to show other students how it should be done.
The idealist has more LinkedIn connections or Twitter followers than you have actual friends. While you were off boozing, this spitfire was emailing back and forth with New York Times editors on his/her latest masterpiece.
The idealist doesn’t want to talk about their awards, but really they do. So much. Awards.
After graduation: The idealist ends up at a newspaper with a circulation of roughly 25K and is crestfallen when he/she learns their first assignment is not uncovering mass scandal, but rather, covering the annual (insert parade-worthy holiday here) parade.