mY eXPEIRENCE aT cOLUMBIA

When I first came to Columbia I was somewhat excited and vowed that from the first day, I was going to work hard and aim for straight A's as well as learn as much as I could regarding my major. My major was Audio Engineering and at the moment still is. I quickly became discouraged after every single person I shared the classroom with seemed to be a professional audio engineer already, or at least it seemed liked that. I knew barley anything. I thought I would catch on, but after weeks and weeks it just wasn't clicking. It didn't interest me. I make hip hop beats and do my best at it but that's it. After showing a lot of people my beats about a year or two ago, some of them suggested that I should definitely go to school for that, and at first I thought, "Well that's stupid, why would I do that?" About a year later and $5000 in loans after one semester that need to be paid back, here I am, at Columbia.

I considered changing my major to Music Producing, but decided not to and that this whole music thing is just not for me, what I do is more of a hobby rather than a talent, not to say I don't have any skills in doing so. The only major here at Columbia that I am leaning towards is Journalism. Here at Columbia I became reminded that I'm not that bad of a writer, and if I plan to stay here at Columbia, I would change my major to Journalism and focus on writing. I used to have hopes of one day being a Sports Journalist, only one problem, I hate every other sport besides Basketball, Boxing and MMA.

I plan on applying at Northeastern Illinois University over the next couple of days but I'm still contemplating my decision. The people here at Columbia are great, the teachers are helpful, the campus is extremely cool, and the whole everyday downtown experience that I have grown accustom to is awesome, but I just don't think I belong here. This Writing & Rhetoric class is the only "normal" class I have, I withdrawed from my Audio Prod class, I stopped going to my group therapy class, also known as New Millennium Studies, and my Intro to Audio class is just supplying info that's going in one ear and right out the other, although I'm still trying to obtain a decent grade in that class. I have no hopes of being an entrepreneur and that's all this school is preparing you ready for. I guess I got some thinking to do, maybe I'm being ignorant about some things or lazy minded, but all in all-if I had to sum up my experience at Columbia in two words it would be Eye Opening.