If you made it this far, awesome. If not, well then you're not reading this sentence so you go to hell you son of a bitch. Ok, back to you, the person who made it this far. I love you.

So the fall semester is my hardest one yet in some ways because I had to stack all my classes onto two days so I could open up my weekends to road work. There were a ton of amazing road gigs ahead of me and I needed all of them. The classes, hectic travel and lack of sleep were kicking my butt, but I felt like my old self and a new and better person all wrapped into one. But make no mistake, it was grueling and there were times I didn't know if I'd make it through successfully.

We end the episode with where we are currently as I type this sentence: three weeks into my spring semester of my sophomore year. I talk about the classes I'm taking and the work and challenges ahead. Next week I'll go back to the regular podcast and still talk about school stuff obviously because this is the new normal for the next four semesters. Thanks for your support you guys. And of course...

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I signed up to take the entire second year of my Arabic foreign language requirement in an eight week intensive semester. That's 30 weeks of language crammed into EIGHT WEEKS. I had no choice though. Check out the episode and see why.

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Last spring I started telling a few more people what was going on with my new journey art Columbia. Naturally, that led to questions about a mid life crisis. I talk about my thoughts on those and other periods of major change or growth or both in life.

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Getting on an early wake up schedule, commuting with 9-5 ers uptown and accomplishing a mountain of things before 10am was wild.

Later that school year, a bunch of work fell through on the road so I also started walking dogs part time to keep things together. It was an intense and humbling spring semester.

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Halfway through first semester and I'm that student now. Front row and center, raising my hand, going all out on every assignment and getting frustrated when students don't contribute to the learning environment. WHO IS THIS PERSON I HAVE BECOME?????

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Pens, pencils, notebooks and other fun gadgets that come with being back in school. Love it.

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Never knew I had test anziety until my first quiz in Arabic class. I've been managing it, but still struggling with it.

Also, I talk about the start of the Oct. 7th protests on campus and how they felt throughout the semester. My experience was obviously much different than the students new to the city and college, but it gave me perspective and inspiration and hope for the future.

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Picking up where I Ieft off. I talk about which classes I took in my first semester and the crazy amounts of work and how my feelings of imposter syndrome compared to starting in standup and taking college classes twenrty years ago.

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In this episode, I talk about orientation week and the realities of entering a whole new world and feeling levels of discomfort, outsiderness and imposter syndrome I haven't had in 15 years.

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This will be part of a series of mini episodes about my decision to apply to Columbia University and how my journey has been going since the summer of 2023.

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