Rookie Story
Before I attended my first J201 class, I couldn’t have cared less about blogging. It was a big deal over nothing, I thought. However, I have since changed my tune. On my first day of class, the wonderful Tiffany Derville informed us that we would have to keep a blog for the next ten weeks. I inwardly groaned. But, like any good college student, I gritted my teeth and began looking into the world of blogging.
I still have no idea what I am going to write about, or from which sources I will claim inspiration. I have no background in journalism or writing for anyone other than my English teachers. I am, in all senses of the word, a rookie. I am coming into this with a fairly successful minor league career, which translates into good grades in high school English. However, now I play in a whole different ballpark. Some of my peers are rookies, while others have been playing in the majors for a few years. My first few at-bats are almost certainly going to be strike-outs. You never know though. Maybe before too long I’ll catch a lucky break and hopefully by then end of this class I will have hit a homerun. Are the baseball references a little cliché? Probably. But when diving headfirst into the unfamiliar, no one can blame me for wanting to bring along something familiar.
So why this blog? The obvious answer would be because I have to. But thinking about it, I begin to see that this might actually be fun. It will be difficult. I do love to write, but I spend most of my time in my world, created, managed, and inhabited by me and only me. Keeping this blog is going to force me to leave my world and venture into the real world. As a college student, it’s probably about time this happened anyway.
How about a little bit about me? Music is my life. I love singing, and I have been in choir since the age of six. I also love going to concerts. I pay close attention to the music scene. This includes not just the current gossip, but also things such as various artists’ political views. Do you see where I am going with this? I am going to speak freely for a moment. Politics bore me. However, add music and pop culture into the equation, and it’s a different story entirely. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you see some future posts from that angle.
I am a little bit anxious to see how the blogging world operates. Will I be able to keep up? I hope so. One of my favorite bands, Cobra Starship, wrote a song with a chorus that begins “Oh, I’m ready for it. Come on, bring it.” And now, I am ready. Let’s do this.
