First Day of classes
Senior year has officially begun. For the first time, I feel like I’m really in college. It’s going to be a ton of reading and a ton of writing. But the benefit is a ton of learning. Normally, I would be freaking out at the workload, but I’ve done it before. Things will be handled. I will be okay. I always am.
We had a meeting for Intersection, KBIA’s new community talk show. I’m really excited about being an associate producer for it. For Monday, my partner and I need to come up with three new story ideas and potential guests for each show. What will also go into this capstone will be a lot of research. The structure of the talk show will be very user-comment and question generated. The audience will be able to participate live by texting, IMing or calling with their questions or comments. It is an exciting concept. I want to research whether or not people will use it. My partner is great and we will brainstorm ideas tomorrow.
My Politics of the South is really engaging, and it is all new information for me. My Sociology of Gender class will be the same way. The reading includes a lot of ethnographies, which I’ll learn quite a bit about how people approach and understand gender and gender issues. These are really college classes. To be honest, I got out of a lot of requirements when I first started school here due to my AP credits. Now I’m playing catch-up. This is what college is all about. Another class I’m excited about? Screenwriting. The class is capped at ten. We write three pages per day in a writer’s journal and then will be completing an entire screenplay. I have yet to come up with my idea, but I want to try my hand at more creative forms of writing.
Senior year is underway. I’m off to go do some reading and then a free Chuck Berry show at the Blue Note. This will be an insane semester, especially if I get a serving job, but it will for sure be a very rewarding one.