SPAZZTASTIC MOTIVATION: FUN BUT FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE by Devon Hill, English 336.003

             “Why would I want to go back to that after all this?”

            That is what Briana Bronson had to say about a recent breakup with her boyfriend who sought to, as she explained it, go back to the beginning of their relationship. But it could easily apply to Briana herself who seems focused on what tomorrow rather than yesterday.

Now a junior, she entered Frostburg State University as a member of the GOLD program, so it is only natural that since then she has held leadership posts on campus. She has written for The Bottom Line as a Greek columnist and Sports Editor, spent a year as the RHA Spirit Chair, and is now a member of Kappa Beta Gamma. She enjoys it but laments that “it takes all of my time.”

She does not seem like someone who dwells on the past too much, though she does – like many of us – have ways of recording memorable moments.

“I used to keep a journal but stopped because it seemed emo,” she notes about her own writing. Since coming to Frostburg, however, she has not kept a journal but has been writing a book that fictionalizes her own college experience. She herself describes it as “not quite an autobiography.”

Drawn to writing, Briana is an English major concentrating in professional writing, and hopes to minor in sociology and journalism. Her goal is to complete a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia before moving onto her dream job of being a book publisher. Asked why, she says she wants to help writers develop and spread their ideas. Her passion for the profession is obvious.

With a laugh Briana Bronson describes herself as “spazztastic,” a slang term used to describe something so fantastic that you have to spazz, or “freak out, about it. This belies the focus she exudes when it comes to so many aspects of her life.

            Briana is a straight-forward young woman and wants others to be as well. 

“Don’t commit to something then not do it.” It is a notion she seems to adhere to herself having already accomplished so much at Frostburg. But the concept may be born of what she says is a lack of trust in others, especially men. Her unexpected breakup left her in what she felt was an untenable situation. Her boyfriend wanted to go back to the beginning of their relationship which, for someone so focused on her future, left her emotionally unfulfilled. 

For someone who says she wants to be a front and center driving force, she has likely already moved on and is looking to more important pursuits.