Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Briefing

I have begun this blog as an assignment from my English teacher. I'm not getting a grade on this however because it was a former teacher of mine that gave me this idea. the blog came up in conversation about how things are at my new school. i must explain that while in her class i was the loud class clown, always up for good humor and never down for work. I'm sure she wasn't crazy about my attitude at first but later grew to love it and my experience as an English student changed too. going from mediocre to A's. that was the most comfortable i had ever felt in a regular class. however where i truly shined as myself was in choir. I came to master singing and musicianship at the high school level and because of my complete adoration for my choir director and voice teacher, i decided that that would be the profession for me. Now, here i am, one semester of college under my belt and a second one beginning.
As a music major a don't have a lot of time for the average college experience. i have class every morning at 8 and most days I'm still in class till 5 will for the extent of my college career and. Last semester i held 18 credit hours making 7-A's 4-B's and an S for satisfactory in a class that i had to attend a certain number of times. this semester i will be taking 17 hours. now, unlike most classes where if you are in class for 3 hours a week you get three hours of credit, some of my classes i could get only one hour of credit but I'm in that class for 6 hours a week. why you might ask? the state has certain restraints against students so as to not clog up the education system. they have in place a limit on the number of hours one can be in college without receiving a degree. This is the reasoning behind why TAMU-C's college of arts and science music department has adjust the credit hours for their classes.
I'm taking all of these classes in hopes that one day i can be a choir director. unlike most degrees the course work for a music major begins freshman year. We must work in our basic courses instead of getting them done our first two years. The reasoning behind such rigorous course work is that music is so broad and the study of it for just two years is not enough time to develop the ability to teach music.
When i told my former English teacher, from earlier, about this lifestyle she was baffled asking me, as others do, if i have time for friends and how much fun i have. Honestly, its hard to fit everything in. my life is a balance beam. on one side there is fun on the other there is hard work and i often times find myself leaning in the wrong direction.
My life is not sad, i love it. im very happy with how i am doing, im comfortable. but comfort doesnt really mean fun.

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