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This audio diary is an interweaving of pencil scratches, rhymes, conversations with a disappointed mother, laughter with a sister, and the thoughtful reflections of a teenager who believes he can become that one in a million: a rap star.
Curie Youth Radio is a writing and radio production class at Curie High School on Chicago's Southwest side.
Here, students create their own stories: fresh takes on everything from snowball fights to gang wars. They see their stories as a way for teenagers in one Chicago high school to reach out to the rest of the world.
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This audio diary is an interweaving of pencil scratches, rhymes, conversations with a disappointed mother, laughter with a sister, and the thoughtful reflections of a teenager who believes he can become that one in a million: a rap star. Curie Youth Radio is a writing and radio production class at Curie High School on Chicago's Southwest side. Here, students create their own stories: fresh takes on everything from snowball fights to gang wars. They see their stories as a way for teenagers in one Chicago high school to reach out to the rest of the world.
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Christina Bavaro
Posted on October 08, 2007 at 05:57 AM | Permalink
Review of Rap Over College?
Good luck with making your choice, its only one that you can make. I did not go the traditional route, I worked right after college. I'm 29 now and I'll be finished with my bachelors in 2 years. I work 40-50 hours a week and then I go to school two nights a week from 6-10 and on Saturdays from 9-1. It's murda. I have no social life, which is ok. The hard part is the pure exhaustion and the pressure. I don't have time for relationships, "acquaintence" friendships and I can't take vacation otherwise I'll have to graduate another semester later.
One one hand, I feel like if I had gone to college right after HS, this would be so much easier. College is designed to be a full-time endeavor; going part-time will always be harder. Plus I'm jealous of all the people who had a college experience. I always wanted to join a soriority and got to games... silly, but I do regret missing that.
On the other hand, I'm grateful for the life I've led. Many HS friends have a degree, but now know that they don't want to do that. Its a tall order to ask someone to know what they want to do with their life, enough to spend $40-60,000 on it, at 18. You learn so much in your 20s about who you are and what you want out of life, its almost for sure you'll change what you thought you should do with life.
But I'm passionate about music and that is one thread that has always weaved through my life. I feel you on that one. Some people look a life time to find something to inspire them; you already found it.
Have you considered a recording engineering program at school like Columbia College or Full Sail College? No, JP Morgan won't be bowled over from your degree from them, but you'll get solid training in your desired field and have Bachelor's Degree to show for it.
Having worked w/out a degree for 13 years, I'll tell you that all employers care about is that you have A degree, most could care less what it is in. I know someone with a Degree in Aviation who is the marketing manager for an accounting firm. A Bachelor's Degree proves that you can learn, that you can complete a long-term task, and that you have hopefully picked up a small amount of usefull information. Thats it.
Good luck to you. Sorry for the long review, but I thought it might be helpful to you.
- Christina, from 51st & Pulaski