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The radio station in the student center is one of the places I hold dear to my heart. This is a place where I am welcomed and very comfortable. This place is as exciting as a glow in the dark, multiple colored lava lamp. It is a place where I can go if I am having any problems that need to be dealt with or if I just want to be around some of my friends. It is a place where I can connect with others that like my music and other genres of music. A place where my friends and I provide ourselves and our listeners with music. The station is a loudspeaker that broadcasts all the time. The inside of the station has mainly black walls with splattered neon paint of the colors yellow, red, and green.

Here I can express myself any way I want even on the walls of this place. Here my friends and I can do just about anything we want because it is our area, our place, our space, and our station. The ceiling has some ceiling tiles over the entrance, the booth, and both offices but not the main sitting area. All over the main sitting area is just the frame ready for tiles to be put in. An architecture structure is built in an L shape above the room with two cabinets as the bases. We can see the structure because it is above the framing in the room and we have no ceiling tiles. About everything in here was hand-made by the people at the station so that is why I get such a “homey” feeling. The floor, which we laid ourselves, is made up of wooden tiles that are two by two feet long that are covered by a thin rubber and separated by one inch wide wooden beams. There is a sound booth I use to broadcast our music to everyone. There is also the manager's office with all the hardware and our back-up files with all of our music and files for playback. The station has a refrigerator and a microwave because we are allowed to. It also has have a lot of of people come to this place because we get a lot of requests and visitors. The usual company are the multiple DJ's including myself, the general manager, the chief engineer, the DJ manager, and many close friends of those people come in this place all the time. We also get the occasional complainer, fan, potential DJ applicant, security, and administration drop by every once and a while too.

The overall surroundings of this place is the Joe Mack Wilson Student Center, all of the people in the student center, the campus life, and all things included with that.

The sights of the station are calm and exciting at the same time because of everything that goes on here. People could be just doing some homework or just studying making it a calm place with not too much noise. Also this place could be exciting when we have our one professional DJ Azul play on the turn-tables because he makes all music awesome and blend with his professional mixing skills. The sounds in this place are somewhat difficult to understand or explain because the radio station has so many different songs playing; the sound is never the same and could be anything. The booth always has some music playing and the waiting room only has the music playing out loud if we turn on the overhead speakers. The station has no specific smell except for some electrical equipment. The station has no taste and the movement in the station varies on how many people are in it and how many are partying.

The radio station makes me feel relaxed at sometimes and other times excited. It is all determined by who is broadcasting music at the time and what music is playing because it is a radio station. If one of the DJ's that likes to play slow music is on, I will be more relaxed and calm but if I am playing my music or another DJ that plays music like me that is very fast paced and loud I will be very excited because they are the tunes that appeal to me the most. I always feel comfortable because I am listening to good music with friends.

Earlier this week a listener in the student center crowd of the station e-mailed the Dean of Students Barry Burkhead about a DJ playing bad music and it being too loud. He said he could not study. This angered all the people in the radio station a great deal. Barry forwarded that email to our General Manager who then forwarded it to the DJ Manager and he took out the complainers name and showed us the email. We all were furious. The student center is not meant solely for studying at all actually; It is a place of gathering where students can talk and have a good time. If someone wants to study they can go to the library right across Sycamore Grove. Another thing is that we are allowed to play whatever music we want as long as the volume is not excessive, no vulgarity, racism, or sexism. We did not play any music of that kind. We were extremely mad because many of us wanted to find out who this complainer was and have a few words with him.

Someone who would not want to be around this place would say the station is a trashy and not deserving of being the radio station. The visitors would probably not touch anything because they would find it not safe or dangerous. They would learn though after staying here for a few hours that this place is an excellent ground for making friends, listening or playing music, and having fun. They will realize that if you are not an irritating person or have any terrible traits about you that the people here will take you in just fine. We always are looking for more potential DJ's because we want all kinds of music to be played.

My ideas for this place are big and small. I think this place is a great area to relax and chill. I have an plan to make this place expand and so much more popular. All of the people here at the station have the idea and plan to expand to sponsors and receive funds for our music. This place is important because we provide music online and for the people in the student center. The student center and school events get music because of this place.

Edited May 4