I joined the university's radio station (CJSW 90.9 FM) to volunteer. Best idea ever, lil, there are some really great people there and everyone loves music. I really like the way they run the station, with a focus of boradcasting not just music that is often missed but also opinions that are not represented enough. The next weeks I'll mostly help out in their music library sorting & organizing stuff as I'm still in the let's-get-to-know-each-other stage, but I'm definitely gonna do some awesome stuff soon, like learn how to use Logic, help finding new music and put my Illustrator skills to good use. I'm in a bit of a fight with my home university over how many coursed I need to take here. I want 4, they think I need to take 5 but that is just an insane amount of work - I want to have some free time, thank you. Edit: leaving in the typo, lol
Can we just talk about college radio all the time?
I'm almost regretting that I only have three months left here. If I would have been here longer I'd definitely start a podcast / host a show / do something big at the station, but it takes a long time to get to know everyone. I'll do as much cool stuff as I can, though.
It's a nice world, as long as you steer away from big commercial radio. There is, sadly, an inverse proportion to the amount of money you make as a host and the amount of good music you can play. Production and editing doesn't have this as much. My courses are nice, but they're just one too many. I have to write lots of essays, one of which is 4000 words, write a program in Python, do multiple case studies, tons of assignments, read 6 books and that's just the 4 courses that I like. I'm now anxiously awaiting the judgement of the exam committee back home.