Seeing as it’s been over a month since my last post, I decided to yet again grace this website with my thoughts.
Over three weeks ago, some of the upper class students and some of my best friends began arriving back on campus. These were the student leaders, roughly 100 students who make up the Residence Life staff, Orientation Leaders, Smooth Transitions and Peer Mentor teams. For several days and long nights, we lived together, trained together and worked towards a common goal of welcoming the class of 2012! After the training (which was actually a lot of fun), we completed yet another successful Orientation program, and I can easily say that I am proud to finally have the class of 2012 on campus.
When classes started on August 25th, I found myself in a unique position. Instead of moving into a hall on campus and starting my Monday off with an early class, I slept past 8:00 AM and went into work once again. This semester, for my Music Technology degree, is my professional semester. Rather than taking classes at Capital, I will be taking 8 weeks of classes for 12 hours a day at the Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, OH (a world renowned school for audio engineering) and then moving on to a two month internship at Dark Horse Recording in Nashville, Tennessee.
This studio has produced some of the biggest stars in country music from Toby Keith and Faith Hill to Big n’ Rich and Allison Kraus. This is a huge opportunity for me as I am the first Capital student to go there (they usually take interns from larger schools such as Berklee). Another thing that I should mention before I leave is that I will be video-blogging during this entire semester so that you can also see and hear what I’m experiencing during my time away from Capital!
Words cannot express how excited I am for this semester and for my opportunity to share it first hand with all of you! As always feel free to leave comments or email me at amiller5@capital.edu! You’ll hear from me soon!
-Adam