Joseph Knaggs is Creating His Own Waves by Belema Oriaku, ENG 336

                                          Joseph Knaggs is Creating His Own Waves
                                                     by Belema Oriaku, ENG 336

        Family orientated Joseph Knaggs opens up about his life. Knaggs is a 20-year-old sophomore at Frostburg State University. He plans to transfer to Salisbury next year to be closer to home. He is from Annapolis, Maryland and currently lives in Kent Island, near the Bay Bridge. Instead of waiting for Towson’s approval, he decided to take charge of his future to attend “The Burg.” He is now pursuing a career in Graphic Design, while minoring in Business administration.

Knaggs is a go-getter and a complex individual. He opens up about his family. His is close to his mother, siblings, and bit-bulls. He has an older sister and a younger brother. His father owns a guitar company called “Knaggs Guitars.” View the website at Knaggs Guitars. Joseph Knaggs is considering taking over his father company when he gets older. In the mean time he does not play the guitar but hopes to some day learn.

Even though he does not play any instruments, he is into music. His favorite genres are Hip-Hop and Rap. He enjoys listening to Wiz Khalifa as well as Drake, Future, Mac Miller and Travis Scott. He even got to meet Wiz Khalifa after a concert. He admits meeting Wiz was great, but not his greatest memory. He identifies one of his best moments was renting out a beach house in Bethany, Delaware. He explains, “it was like senior week, but better.”

It is not surprising that one of his greatest moments was at a beach house, because he loves the beach. The weather is one of the reasons he is ready to transfer from Frostburg. Summer time is his favorite season. He would love to move to Hawaii if it was not so far from his family. He enjoys surfing and body boarding so much he spent over $400 on a board.  He even hopes to live out his summer dreams by someday working for one of the greatest serf companies, Ripcurl. He enjoys their shops and magazines and would love to be a graphic designer for the company.

Not only does he like to design, he also enjoys sports, especially soccer. He opened up about is tragic soccer accident that led him to get surgery. When he was trying to get the ball another player kneed him in the jaw. His jaw was shattered. After the surgery he could not eat sold food for several weeks. The incident did not stop Knaggs from playing, but instead made his desire to play grow. When I asked him if the incident made him scared to play again he admitted, "No. It hurt though. I had to watch my team play when I was recovering. [It] made me want to play more." What did he learn from the whole incident? He admits, “it made me appreciate food.” That was not the only learning experience that he will forever remember.

He admits his father taught him a lot, but he also learned from personal experiences. One of his greatest learned lesson was when he got pulled over for speeding and ended up getting a $600 ticket. After meeting with the judge, he was lucky enough to walk away with only a $200 fine and one point on his license (instead of six). He now knows not to speed and is more cautious over all.