It has been SO LONG since I have had to edit audio myself - the last time I did anything like this was back around 2013 when I recorded an EP in a basement with only concrete walls to "dampen" the sound. I spent a couple months tinkering with EQ and audio levels on Pro Tools for what turned to only be a two-track shin-dig. It was terrible, but I had a lot of fun doing it and was proud of the finished product - this project was more or less the same feeling. I used Audacity this time around, but using this software was just like riding a bike. It was tedious to go through the original interview track and cut out all the little "um" and "uhhhhh" moments (I probably cut about 2 minutes from an originally 12 minute track, not counting the ones that I left in there for artistic value), but I believe the end product turned out well enough. I initially chose to interview Mitchell because he is my roommate/bandmate so it was easy in that sense, but he's a...
I think the concept of a "multigenre paper" is fascinating. It certainly caters to more diverse student knowledge than confining student assignments to create one singular type of paper. I reflect back on many (if not all) of the papers I wrote in high-school - they were all informational/research papers. The thought of writing anything resembling a creative piece, especially in my college credit courses, was a foregone conclusion. We were taught to write in one kind of way - this one style of writing would provide "all we need" in our academic careers moving forward. Somehow I wound up specializing in creative writing during my undergrad. I remember taking my first poetry course during my freshman year and falling in love with it. I had never done any form of creative writing before, save for trying to write lyrics for my pseudo-christian metalcore band at the time (don't ask). I had never learned these skills, so I was far behind my fellow classmates, but ...
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