Brent Ramirez

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A Chat with KTSW’s General Manager

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor At the heart of KTSW is a group of tightly knit people constantly putting in hours upon hours of hard work to run the San Marcos radio station. I had the opportunity of interviewing my former professor and KTSW’s general manager Dan Schumacher, who has been in charge of the station since August 2001. After working as a Blog Content Contributor for KTSW for […]

todayFebruary 28, 2017 33

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How To Write A Song

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor Everyone loves some type of music, and chances are certain songs can make people feel certain ways. The combination of musical composition and lyrics can be life-changing and thought provoking, bringing out our innermost thoughts and feelings into song. Other songs are feel good songs that get you in a better mood, or make you want to dance. No matter what a song makes […]

todayFebruary 25, 2017 60

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La La Land Going for the Gold

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor If you haven't heard yet, the film La La Land is taking theaters by storm, with most film lovers and casual moviegoers alike left in awe in its wake. The romantic musical directed by Damien Chazelle has been sweeping through awards season with several trophies already collected, including a Screen Actors Guild Award for Emma Stone's performance, as well as a nomination for Gosling's. […]

todayFebruary 19, 2017 215

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5 Quick Tips: How to Stay Awake During Class

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor If there's one word that embodies no sleep or a lack thereof, the word is "college." From pulling all-nighters to study for exams, to parties that eventually turn into shameful 4 a.m. Taco Bell runs, college is a land where sleep nearly ceases to exist. While a subspecies of the human race known as collegious irresponsibilious, or "college students," has evolved to run on somewhere […]

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4 Reasons You Should Go On A Cruise

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor This past January was the first time I have ever set sail on a cruise, and I’ll be honest, I was pretty skeptical at first. How fun could being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean be? Turns out that a cruise ship is where I had some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time. Now I know […]

todayFebruary 15, 2017 47

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Finding Your Passion

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor In a world of ever expanding interests and personal identity, there are many things for every individual to find joy in. Whether it's soccer, skydiving, fly fishing, designing computers, making music or cooking, we all find happiness in different things. But something happens when that happiness is met with an affinity for that particular interest: we develop a passion.  If you Google "passion," the […]

todayJanuary 24, 2017 19

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My Semester as Blog Content Contributor

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor For the past nine weeks, I have been writing articles as a Blog Content Contributor for KTSW, and let me say: it's been a tough nine weeks. I knew becoming a writer would be pretty difficult, but this job has challenged me to the best of my ability. Nonetheless, it has definitely been something that I've enjoyed, writing new stories each week that would […]

todayDecember 23, 2016 37

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My First Music Festival

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor I went to my very first music festival and I can honestly say that it was a pretty neat experience. At the ripe age of 21, I still feel like I was a bit late to jump on the music festival scene, considering I've been scrolling past Instagram images of my friends at things like ACL, Coachella or Something Wicked for years now. I've […]

todayDecember 12, 2016 32

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Fighting My Stage Fright

By Brent Ramirez Blog Content Contributor Stage fright and performance anxiety are two things that I have suffered from ever since I decided to try my hand in singing in the sixth grade, and I still do to this day. They are both things that singers, dancers and all other sorts of performers have had to deal with at one point in their careers and to some, performing comes much […]

todayDecember 8, 2016 39

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