WSGR

Over the past seven months, I've been a DJ for SC4's radio station, WSGR. For those in Port Huron that are reading this, the frequency is 91.3 FM. In those seven months, I've grown a lot as a person. For one thing, before my first show, I developed stomach cramps and drymouth thinking about broadcasting my voice over the air. What if I choked? What would they do? Would they give me the boot?
That first show was- how you say?- horrendous. It could have been much worse, but the first thing I did was the first thing the instructor said not to do. I shut the folder with all the music in it, leaving a smaller, less varied folder of the top 30 songs for that month. Trying not to panic, I piled my playlist high with those songs and desperately prayed for the big folder (we're talking thousands of files here, folks!) to open back up and breezed through all my talk breaks.
 Everything was going to heck in a handbasket. I'd get the big folder open for a few minutes, throw a few songs on the list and it would begin malfunctioning again. In desperation, I began clicking frantically. A song from the list cut off one of my songs, and I decided to let it play through. It's whatever, it's a hairflip, right? Well, I tried again and the darned thing started again. I clicked something else and it began again. Groaning, I let it play through a second time. Things began normalizing after that, and despite being very rattled, I pressed on through the end of the hour.
Nowadays, I barely ever have that much trouble. Last week, I had the best week I've had in months. I still have the odd hiccup here and there, and people who call in with song requests that can't be fulfilled (I always feel bad when that happens.) but I'm so much more confident than I was back in January. This coming Monday is my last day in the studio for the summer and I welcome the break. If I can't get a slot in the fall, that's okay. WSGR has expanded my horizons both socially and musically. I've heard wonderful songs by people who I've never ever heard of except through the radio station and I think that's really cool.