Semester update

There at times during the year when everyone has their canned small talk responses down pat. We've just finished the "How was your break? What are you taking this semester?" phase and moving into the "How are classes going?" part of the year. I, personally, love small talk and hearing details about peoples' lives, so here's my beginning of the year update! 

My main job is the WUD Film Committee Director. I've been in this committee since freshman year, ranging from 'personal assistant' to Associate Director to Summer Coordinator and finally Director. I love the group of kids in this org and we're in the process of putting on another busy exciting semester of film programming. I also get to be a part of Directorate as a whole, along with all the other committee directors and presidents of the union. We're a really really attractive bunch. 

You know we're classy because it's in black and white

I also very recently got hired as a media assistant at the Instructional Media Center in Vilas. So far, working at the IMC kicks ass. There's no real set list of tasks for each day. I'm either running a screening for a comm arts class, checking out camera equipments and editing suites, running various engineering equipment all over the building, or rocking out to Spotify. I hope to be working there for the next year and a half. 

But wait, there's more! I rock out during my radio show at WSUM every Monday night from midnight to 1 am. My show concept is the first and last song from an album, and I'm really enjoying it. I want to give people a taste of an album as a whole, because in the modern era, I feel like people rarely purchase a whole album and stick to just the radio single, or forget to ever listen with shuffle off. (I know I used to be guilty of that second one). Besides, I absolutely love when the first and last songs correlate and are perfect bookends (See The Way Out by the Books and Mirrored by Battles). Here's my show site: http://wsum.org/shows/Monday/2400/start-and-finish/

Now that I don't have that pain of a 3-hour Wednesday night class, I can make AHA meetings again. We're the UW Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics, and the only secular student group on campus! Last week's discussion centered on whether you can reconcile being religious and being scientific. I love how tangential and serious and funny we can be.

Can you spot me? 

Improv is still going. We've got a show this Friday, actually! I had to miss our first shows of the semester due to being away for Sundance, but I'm really looking forward to performing again. The has changed, with Ethan graduated and Emilio back from studying abroad, so I wonder if our style/humor will change again.

Class wise, I'm taking a 600 level German seminar 2.5 hours once a week about Literatur, Kultur, und Migration, a comm arts class about the history of documentary film, and an education policies class about school and society, and an ed psych class about adolescents and development, along with my practicum student teaching out in the field twice a week. My first lesson plans are due on Wednesday :3  Very exciting. Very busy.