Alexandria Diaz, 21, was born and raised in Los Angeles. This is her first semester at Glendale Community College and she hopes to return to Cal State Long Beach in the Fall. She is a journalism major and wants to pursue a career in journalism and hopefully write for the L.A. or N.Y. Times and magazine publications. She enjoys writing and reading books. Her favorite author at the moment being Mitch Albom. Along with reading, she is a movie fanatic with some of her favorite franchises being those about super heroes (Iron Man) and The Fast and the Furious movies. Her goals are to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and eventually move to New York or Washington, D.C..