Ryan Kerley
When she was a senior in high school, Katie Tucker did not have the first clue about where she wanted to attend college, but she knew she did not want to attend the University of Georgia.
“You could have asked me at the beginning of senior year, and I would have said ‘I have no idea where I’m going, but I am not going to UGA,’” Tucker said.
Two years later, Tucker is a second-year journalism major and is now in love with the school. Tucker’s college application process was scrambled, and she was left choosing between UGA and South Carolina.
“Georgia football isn’t why I came to Georgia, but it’s why I kind of fell in love with the place for the first time,” Tucker said.
The energy at football games feels “surreal” to her.
Saturdays in Sanford Stadium helped her embrace the previously unattractive thought of going to UGA, but Tucker was not done making life-changing decisions.
Although she felt pressured by her friends and family in choosing to attend school in Athens, Tucker believes it was destiny that kept her in-state despite wanting to branch out.
Originally an Entertainment and Media Studies major with little direction, she decided to switch to journalism following a guest lecture from a photojournalism instructor. Tucker told her friends that she finally realized what she wanted to do in life and then joined Georgia’s student newspaper as a photographer.
Tucker believes that she has discovered her purpose at UGA: To travel and tell stories. She found her passion.
Ryan Kerley 