The new school year has begun, and that means it's time to dust off the blog and start screaming into the void once more. This semester I'm taking Writing 200, the class everyone assumes I took last year—I honestly don't remember why I didn't. But regardless of the reasons, this is where the inertia of life has dumped me and I'll do my best to have some fun with it.
Since this is supposed to be an introduction, I guess I should introduce myself at least a little. I'm Aidan, a college sophomore, currently of the George Fox University English department but contemplating switching to Exercise Science. Besides taking classes here, I also compete for the George Fox cross country and track teams as a distance runner. Finally, I'm trying to learn how to play the guitar in my spare time. That's about it right now.
As a writer, I've dabbled in a lot of things—poetry, short stories, those times I was sure I was going to write a novel and ended up with 6000 words of something and nowhere left to go with it. I've been a reporter for Linn-Benton Community College in high school, and for the Crescent here at George Fox last year. I started college as an English major largely because that's what I liked in high school, but I've realized—in part through my experience as a reporter last year—that while I would love to cultivate a consistent writing practice and keep writing for fun, I don't believe it's what I want to do for a living.
Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to this class—if it's my last hurrah as an English major, I'll try to make it count. And if after a semester of Anatomy and Physiology I come crawling back bruised and bloodied, I might as well learn something.
