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Good Lord, I am overwhelmed!! We had our placement exams and orientation today, and my brain is about to explode with information. The placement exam was (as Paul predicted!) kind of a joke. I didn't study at all, and I'm pretty sure that I did just fine. The theory was 34 multiple choice questions (written only; no listening/aural anything) and I don't think it went beyond stuff I learned freshman year. Granted, some of that stuff was a little rusty because I haven't used it in a couple years, but it was still completely within my grasp. The music history was 2 hours of listening examples with corresponding questions, and it really wasn't that terrible. I mean, I felt James Borders rolling over in his grave (yes, his grave lol) every time I arbitrarily picked composers, dates, etc for the early music questions, but whatever ;-) I also got lucky because the last musical example (which had 15 questions) was the section of "L'incoronazione di Poppea" that I sang sophomore year! So at least I got those right ;-)
The thing is, it turns out that our exams don't count for anything. I mean, Paul told me that they didn't, but I didn't realized that literally people who fail the theory exam and people who only miss one question end up in the same classes! Ah the joys of intricate scheduling.
After the placement exams, we had lunch, and I got a pianist to let me into a practice room (since I can't get in without my ID card, which I get tomorrow). It was so nice to actually get to SING, and I know at least one of my roommates and I will be spending a lot of time practicing this weekend! Then we had our Opera Studio orientation, and that was when I started to get overwhelmed! It is seriously the most comprehensive, ridiculously all-inclusive grad program I could ever imagine. These people are basically going to be micromanaging my life for 2 years, but it sounds like I will come out as prepared for the real world of opera as I could ever hope to be. It's really too much to list here, but they basically just think of everything. I just hope I make it through alive!!!
I am excited to start, though. Oh, and I decided to sing Mimi on Tuesday. :-)
The thing is, it turns out that our exams don't count for anything. I mean, Paul told me that they didn't, but I didn't realized that literally people who fail the theory exam and people who only miss one question end up in the same classes! Ah the joys of intricate scheduling.
After the placement exams, we had lunch, and I got a pianist to let me into a practice room (since I can't get in without my ID card, which I get tomorrow). It was so nice to actually get to SING, and I know at least one of my roommates and I will be spending a lot of time practicing this weekend! Then we had our Opera Studio orientation, and that was when I started to get overwhelmed! It is seriously the most comprehensive, ridiculously all-inclusive grad program I could ever imagine. These people are basically going to be micromanaging my life for 2 years, but it sounds like I will come out as prepared for the real world of opera as I could ever hope to be. It's really too much to list here, but they basically just think of everything. I just hope I make it through alive!!!
I am excited to start, though. Oh, and I decided to sing Mimi on Tuesday. :-)