Introducing Myself!

My name is Andy Kiran Chettipally, but you can call me Andy! I am 21 years old and was born and raised in Burlingame, California.

I am a Psychology major, currently taking classes at Skyline College and College of San Mateo, as part of my journey to become a psychiatrist. Besides psychology, my interests include producing music and playing videogames.

My media preferences consist of videogames, television shows, movies and books (in that order, unfortunately).

I have a love-hate relationship with writing. As someone who finds face-to-face conversation to be the most accurate and representative manner of communication of my ideas, I find satisfaction in accomplishing a similar task in the form of writing. I am confident in my ability to comprehend and commentate on various topics through writing, but I find myself lacking when it comes to going over my work and editing it. I am one of the most impatient people I know, and this impatience can often impede on my willingness to proofread, or even read, my work before submission. Because of this impatience, I find the quality of my writing suffers, and I decided to try and make a change.

I am taking Writing for Mass Media because I want to sharpen my writing skills. I took this class as an opportunity to learn more about my strengths in writing and how to unlearn my weaknesses in writing. I hope to be more effective in my written work in this class.