At NYU, I took a “Editor’s Vision” class where my class created an online magazine called “Dopamine.” Our goal was to be in the pursuit of happiness to create stories. As a class, we recognized that happiness is subjective, which is why we wanted to be in the "pursuit of" happiness. Our magazine includes a twist of wit in the stories with the hope to make our audience laugh and spark the dopamine chemical while they read.

Approximately 87% of all news is negative and we wanted to change that statistic to provide more positivity in the news we are exposed to, especially after COVID, which brought a 75% increase in depression worldwide. Last year, professor Alexis Gelber's students made an online publication called "The Brink," which covered how society was getting used to life during the pandemic. In our publication, "Dopamine," our goal was to pursue happiness post-COVID because that's what everyone wants to feel now. We also wrote about new ways we found happiness post-COVID.

Everyone in the class wrote their own articles. The class was split up into two groups: the design team and the editing team. From there, we worked together to make sure all the content was going to fit into our theme and goal. I was part of the editing team where I helped edit all the articles on the website along with my peers. I was able to work professionally with my classmates to make our vision for the online publication a reality. With everyone's unique perspective and experiences, we were able to come up with stories that had a diversity of what made each of us happy in a collection of personal essays, reviews, features, service pieces, and documentary videos. Our audience was targeted to 20-28 year olds.