Staff photo by Mark Kennedy. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate Chanceton Lindsey, 22, completed a short film called “Time Off” for his senior project.Chanceton Lindsey seemingly changed his major as frequently as his sweatpants as a freshman at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
To start, he majored in biology with a goal of eventually going to medical school to become a cardiologist. But he discovered he didn’t care for hospitals. So, nix that.
Then he switched to math, but talk of a new class about triangles left him cold. “Triangles?” he thought. Really.
Finally, Lindsey, who went to high school in Lebanon, Tennessee, decided to look for a major with writing at its core and settled on a communication degree with an emphasis on radio, TV and filmmaking.
“Writing has been a lifelong passion of mine,” Lindsey, 22, said in a recent interview. “I thought, ‘I gotta do something where writing can be my No. 1 [goal].”