Summer in a college town is a unique thing. Half of the season, the streets are empty, with a sense of a community or some other motivational poster bullshit. The other half is filled with what can be best described as working tourists, usually students and professionals who gather around the campus for random conferences, and larger events like student orientation.
Student orientation at a large state university such as Virginia Tech is vital. It can make or break what school some students will go to, and acts as the bridge between high school and college for new freshmen. While they're being fed University-fed rhetoric about shit they'll probably never do, I'm trying to sell my brand.
My brand is College Media, the name we call the Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, Inc. I could go on, but I'll spare you. The media companies are hard to sell. Between myself and the Yearbook editor, we're not good at talking to people. Such a fact is odd, since I can talk for days on end. Hopefully we get some more people interested in the station tomorrow (by the way, if you'd like to donate to WUVT-FM, message me for info. We're doing a transmitter upgrade, and it costs a pretty penny. Help us out!).
At night, I'm working a job I'm not enjoying. I do what I did all of spring semester, but with different professors. It's a mock lecture to explain a large class to kids who aren't used to it. Sometimes it's good, but honestly, the whole job itself isn't working out. Doing the Life on the Front Row series is ok, but I need something more fulfilling.
No Age's Nouns has been in my car's CD player nonstop, and it's a fucking fantastic album. It's remarkably good. I'd say more, but Monday has worn me out.
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Hail the summer doldrums! If you don't speak so well to the incomings and currents (students that is), why not make them a mix that showcases the stations show offerings and just hand that out at the orientations (and neighborhood coffe shops?)..nusic marketing doesn't necessarily require public speaking...interest in the station is sure to increase, but you'll have to grab some funding from somewhere.
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Mixes are illegal thanks to copyright issues. As far as speaking, yesterday was Day One at Tech. Today was much better for everyone, and the candy I brought was better than Jackie's.
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Don't want to coerce you into illegality, however i am fondly reminiscing over an MTVU mixtape..., perhaps you could look into those (it introduced me to Matisyahu and gasp...Fall Out Boy)..anyway...glad things are looking up ;)
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Oh I feel your pain, I remember my summers that I stayed at school and it was as if the days just went on forever My summer job of choice was working in the government doc's section of the library and there were many times I wondered to myself what exactly I was doing there. Like everything it will pass by, and soon you will be greeting the fall ready for another year.
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MTVU is my enemy.
I like the summer, actually. I'm quitting my non-radio job tomorrow, anyhow.
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Loved my summers as well, but those hours put in at the library seemed never ending
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Yeah, but the library is nice and cold. There are also books, I like books,
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books are good, just wished I got to look at them and not the government documents I had to file
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Yeah, I suppose.
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I went UC- Boulder and as soon as May hit it felt like really different place. I got use to it after 2 summers and actually really enjoyed it in the end.
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sorry to bring up they who shall not be named...i've never seen their programming, but admire their reach (musically).
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I like it here, it's just that the orientation is taxing.
Well, I mean, they try.