While most high schoolers were spending their summer of 2008 as camp counselors, lifeguards and job interns, Jonathan Heckman was preparing for his future in a different hands-on way -- by creating his own aviation-themed blog. Since then, Heckman’s online reflections have quite literally taken flight, rooted in a passion that he is now pursuing professionally at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fl, where he is working on a bachelor of science degree in business administration with a dual major in air transportation and management. In this personal essay, Heckman, who is 20, talks hits, posts, opinions and the life of a young blogger. …
