A musical year: Senior hopes to inspire through music
As we come to the end of the first month of classes, I imagine most students are ready to head home for the first time or go visit friends — something to get them out of Vermillion for the first time since the semester started.
I, on the other hand, am looking forward to my first weekend here in three weeks. No, I haven’t gone home yet, but I have spent the last two weekends going to concerts.
The weekend of Sept. 6-7, I went to the Twin Cities to see Parachute and Taylor Swift in concert, and this past weekend, I made the eight-hour drive to Chicago for Riot Fest, a punk rock music festival, where I got to see some of my favorite bands in concert while also exploring the city of Chicago with some of my best friends.
Since my first year, I have eagerly sought out and attended as many concerts as possible, and have probably attended about 50 in the last three years. Music is my number one passion, and it’s not a stretch to say that everything I do revolves around it.
During the last three years, I have pushed my music on almost all of my friends, and as a result, they’ve gone to every concert with me. I know we’ll look back on college and know we got everything out of it that we wanted, while making slightly irrational decisions and having incredible memories together.
My goal for this blog this year is to share my musical experiences and tastes with the readers, but I also have a bigger hope for it. I hope to inspire you, not necessarily to listen to all the music I listen to or decide to go to a million concerts, but to do something you’d never do while you’re in college — something out of the ordinary.
Why, you might ask? College is the time to go see the world and explore. You might get less sleep driving back from a concert at 6 a.m., but the experience and memories are completely worth it. Trust me.
I hope you’ll follow along as I spend my last year of college continuing what I’ve been doing all along and will be inspired by my irrationality and leaps of faith.
