By Emma Patton, Editor-in-Chief Nicole Smith hails from the small town of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, but her list of journalistic accomplishments is anything but small. After the Oklahoma Press Association awarded her a paid internship this summer, the junior journalism major was encouraged to write columns. Little did she know her boss at the Tri County Herald entered her into a statewide contest. “Oh yeah, I won. I mean, it was just a monthly [competition],” Smith said of her article, which was judged to be the best out of 185 newspapers eligible for entry. The column, Smith said, was inspired…