This is Sirius.

Better late than never.

Well I'm pretty slow to jump on the blogging bandwagon even though so many amazing experiences have happened to me up here in NYC. Belmont East was one of my major reasons for coming to Belmont University and I'm happy to say it has not left me disappointed.

I am interning at SiriusXM satellite radio and I have learned so much. I have gained education on many different systems, a great knowledge of how to trouble shoot a network with over 40 studios, hands on physical maintenance from the studio gear to cables. I spend most of my days following around the Engineer on Duty (EOD) responding to maintainence calls as well as the day to day upkeep. Some of my other days I am working in BNOC- Broadcast Network Operations Center. It is essentially the command center for SiriusXM. And when things are getting to technical I pop my head into to studios and work with Studio Operations. I've worked on live recording sessions with some amazing artists as well as really famous people such as: Oprah, Dr. Phil, Barbra Walters, Howard Stern, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifa, NeedtoBreath...and many more (those were just my favorites).

I've had a great time at Belmont East and believe it has not been just my internship. I feel like I always have exciting weekends, and compared to the ones I have during the summer in Fayetteville, Georgia they can't even compare. This weekend I saw two shows and spent very little money. I saw Tourdant at the Metropolitan Opera. But the more amazing part was I was able to "stub-in" and see 2/3's of the show in $222.50 seats for free. This was an amazing experience. The show was phenomenal and the setting was more breathtaking. But this was only half the weekend. My roommate Jake and I had been trying to win a ticket lottery for a Broadway show for a while, and after six failures we found great success. We landed Box seat tickets for the show "Next To Normal" for $25 each.

My weekends continue to impress me, and I constantly don't know what to expect from my random adventures around The Big Apple.

Patrick Griffin