So, I was thinking about a title to this post about me starting my first class at "real" college next week, and I thought of Michael Jackson's song from his Thriller album. And as I was looking up a video to post, it got me thinking about my vinyl copy of Thriller. I don't have a record player right now, but Thriller would have likely been my first record to play on a newly-acquired record player. I have a small milk crate filled with records, and I decided to go through it and pull out my treasured Thriller album that I payed maybe 50 cents for at a yard sale a number of years ago. Alas! After going through the maybe 30 or 40 records in my small collection, there was no Thriller to be found! Which means somebody must have taken it. I haven't played my records in years, and they had been in various states of storage, but all my records have always been together with each other. There are a few faceless suspects, but very little I can do to really prove anybody stole it. Oh well...I guess I'll just have to buy one off of eBay.
Now, back to my main topic: I Wanna Be Starting Something. That something is my "real" college career. I've had some limited experience with college, but it's always been studying Korean, and I can't imagine that my experience is much like the experience of college.
This week, I will finally be starting classes at CSCC. I am kind of nervous, but at the same time, I'm really excited. I'm nervous because I do have a slight aversion to studying something that I'm not entirely interested in and I have a very big fear of writing papers, thanks to my high school experience with writing papers. I'm also quite nervous due to my apparent ADD. I'll be studying and then, "Oooo! Butterfly!" and I can't concentrate anymore on my studies.
Despite these fears that I have about returning to school, I am very excited to start. I do really enjoy learning new things and I know it usually helps me to be in some type of structured environment. Since I moved to Columbus, I haven't made too many friends, and thanks to my experience this summer in Korea, I am sure that I'll be able to meet some really cool people at CSCC too. Starting classes will also help with my terrible case of cabin fever. Since I got out of the military in January, aside from my "travels," I really haven't gotten out much. All in all, I'm just really excited to be startin' somethin'.
P.S.
While I've been lamenting about my lost Thriller album, B.B. King's classic, "The Thrill Is Gone" came to mind. Cheered me up a little bit because, a) the blues always makes you feel a little less blue, and b) if you distort the words a little bit, it sounds like "Thriller's Gone" :)
