Most excellent! We are going to have to swap reading lists sometime--I've been doing a lot of reading on the political theory side of things but am only starting to dip my toes into the new media aspects.
Mainly by trying everything else first . I bounced around a lot in my undergrad (Economics->Philosophy->Political Science->Literature->Rhet/Comp) before having an influential professor who helped me discover what it was that I was actually trying to study. For me, one of the most appealing things about Rhet/Comp is how well it lends itself to interdisciplinary study, and its wide-reach of application.
Hello! And I agree, the food during seminar sessions kept me going.