let's pull out the dictionary...
unprepared: (adj)
1. having made no preparations
2. not equiped to meet a contingency
3. describes Stephen's state with the cello at his UCLA "meeting slash audition" with Mr. Lysy.
embarrassing: (adj)
1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
2: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
3. a word to describe the way stephen felt after playing a disgusting rendition of Bach for Mr. Lysy, the cello professor of UCLA.
pathetic: (adj)
1. Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion: “The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic” (John Galsworthy).
2. Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.
3. Describing the how stephen sounded during his playing that day at UCLA
do we get the picture? okay - lol, i'm like, so done here.
Summary of the above: I made the mistake of going down to UCLA with my cello with hopes to play for the cello professor (Mr. Lysy), so that he could evaluate my potential with the instrument. I arranged the meeting a tad late...only had 2 days of practicing to prepare stuff I hadn't touched in January, and basically SUCKED in his studio. I can't even make excuses...it was just so bad...partly caused by the fact that I haven't practiced consistently since January, so I didn't have a solid performance foundation. Well, lesson learned - never do that again, lols.
Looking ahead into the future, iono what to expect. Visited JHU recently. Don't think i'm gonna go there, mainly for cost/benefit reasons. Opportunity cost from econ, u know? hehe - so i'm basically down to UCLA and UCBerkeley. I fucked myself over at UCLA with the music, cuz i was retarded and did stupid stuff as described above, but we'll see. Is UCLA Regents good enough to pull it past Berkeley's Prestige? Hmmmm...
You tell me, dudes.
-Still a Swimming Stepho
1. having made no preparations
2. not equiped to meet a contingency
3. describes Stephen's state with the cello at his UCLA "meeting slash audition" with Mr. Lysy.
embarrassing: (adj)
1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
2: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
3. a word to describe the way stephen felt after playing a disgusting rendition of Bach for Mr. Lysy, the cello professor of UCLA.
pathetic: (adj)
1. Arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion: “The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic” (John Galsworthy).
2. Arousing or capable of arousing scornful pity.
3. Describing the how stephen sounded during his playing that day at UCLA
do we get the picture? okay - lol, i'm like, so done here.
Summary of the above: I made the mistake of going down to UCLA with my cello with hopes to play for the cello professor (Mr. Lysy), so that he could evaluate my potential with the instrument. I arranged the meeting a tad late...only had 2 days of practicing to prepare stuff I hadn't touched in January, and basically SUCKED in his studio. I can't even make excuses...it was just so bad...partly caused by the fact that I haven't practiced consistently since January, so I didn't have a solid performance foundation. Well, lesson learned - never do that again, lols.
Looking ahead into the future, iono what to expect. Visited JHU recently. Don't think i'm gonna go there, mainly for cost/benefit reasons. Opportunity cost from econ, u know? hehe - so i'm basically down to UCLA and UCBerkeley. I fucked myself over at UCLA with the music, cuz i was retarded and did stupid stuff as described above, but we'll see. Is UCLA Regents good enough to pull it past Berkeley's Prestige? Hmmmm...
You tell me, dudes.
-Still a Swimming Stepho