Out of the nest, into the terrifying beyond

By Lauren Jarman

You might see a couple of these blogs with the same topic while perusing this site, but I’m doing it anyway…

The Radio and TV program is only two years long, and only a year and a half is spent at NAIT because the final semester is a field placement.  However, this year and a half in the classroom feels like closer to a decade by the end for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that there were a lot, a lot of long days and late nights.

Twelve people are accepted into the radio program at a time, and you go to all your classes every day with the same 12 people.  “Don’t you want to scratch each other’s eyes out,” you ask?  Yes.  A lot of the time we do.  But even while you wish they were dead, you know that the 11 people you spend most of your time with have probably forever altered your life.  And by third semester, you also know that this is a good thing.

I’m pretty sure I learned something new almost every day in this program, but the most important thing I got out of RTA was relationships with a couple of people who I don’t know how I’m going to live without starting at the end of this month.  We had more fun that I would have thought possible, we went through some of the most difficult times of our lives when we lost one of our number, and we came out on the other side stronger and older in years and experience.

I may forget how to use the Synchronized Recording Process, but I’ll never forget the people who sat in the Cave and learned about it with me.

And none of us will ever forget K-Hay.

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