For the December 2009 release of his mixtape The High Life, 17 year old Mac Miller found time in between recording sessions and high school classes to run a promotional blog for his new music.

A senior in high school at the time, Mac was thinking about what to do next.

He posted on October 17, 2009, quote,

I might appoint my career where I often question the topic of college.

Will I apply and try to get in right out of high school?

Will I take a year off to grind super hard? While I keep my life on the safe route, I really don't know. But for now I'm just

doing what makes me happy and that is making music right for my soul.

I feel that as long as I continue to satisfy myself the rest will fall into place.

Good night everybody. Dream of bigger and better things for yourself."

Days later, it seemed Mack had decided to take at least a step in the college direction,

and he posted an essay he wrote in an application for Temple University.

Quote, I have never met anybody as passionate as I am about what I do.

I've lost a great portion of my social life to this dream.

I don't want to be a performer.

I want to make a difference in the world. I realize that my voice is through music.

In today's age, music is one of the loudest voices there is. More kids listen to what Gucci-Main

has to say about wearing jewelry than Barack Obama's press conference.

All I want to do is change the way people see the world and I believe I have the

power to do just that." This was the way Mac Miller felt about the future in 2009.

At 17 years old, he wanted to go out into the world and make a difference.

By 2018, nearly a decade later, he was doing that and much more.

From Spotify, I'm Cole Kushna, and this is Dissect,

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