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Well, I started my classes two weeks ago. Stuff was going fine. Then I went to Careers in Music class on Wednesday at 4 pm, and was like wow. This is so cool. I love this stuff.
And I realized that every time Dr. Schauer sends out an email saying there's a conducting opportunity at this church or a teaching opportunity at this school, I basically ignore it and go onto the next email. Yes, I think teaching music would be fun, I think I'd be good at it... but the thing is, I'm not excited about it. I'm actually sort of dreading it.
And I realized that every time an opportunity comes up to be someone's photographer or work with creating an image for musicians or something like that, I'm all over it (like flies on a corpse, which was the first simile which came to mind last week when I was talking about this). And I get excited about it and I build my portfolio and I know I do good work.
Around 4:30 I started looking up various major requirements and doing math on Excel (by math I mean organizing classes into semesters) and by the end of class at 6 I was somewhat confident that I would change my major. So I went home and said to my roommates, individually, I think I'm going to change my major. They said "you're going to WHAT? to what?" and I said from music education to music business and from BA studio art to BFA photography. And then they all said "yeah that makes more sense for you."
Thursday morning I went into campus, talked to my pseudo-advisor, went to my real advisors, and made the changes. Eric Johnson, the music advisor, said are you sure you want me to put the change in? and I said don't ask me that or I'll change my mind. Now I'm running around trying to add two classes two weeks into school and dropping three (couldn't be happier about dropping piano for music educators, although I lied and told Dr. Zdechlich that I would miss having her class)
Sure, I could be basically done with a music major in vocal studies, but the music business is what I want (and it's only 5 more classes to complete). And they're accepting applications for the BFA programs until the 15th. I'm still doing my minor in arts management too. And I feel really good about this. It was sad having to tell one of my favorite professors I was going to have to drop his class, but even though he was sad, he was supportive.
So anyway, I can still do all this in the 6 years I was planning on, with all semesters around 18 units (that's if I don't take any summer classes or do summer internships, which I might - two internships required - one for Music Business and one for my thematic minor) and I can now graduate with Honors, I'm pretty sure. In the music ed degree, all the required classes are specific, so an honors thesis would have been on top of that. As a BFA student, there are x number of upper division classes required, and honors thesis counts for upper division in your major, so it looks like I will be having a solo show (that's generally what a BFA art thesis is) and graduating with honors. Things will be sort of shaken up for a little while till I can get my semester schedule settled out, and I feel weird about switching majors in my 5th year, and I sort of feel like I'm shocking people or letting people down (but not the ones who really know me) so all in all, I'm really happy about taking this risk.
Completely off topic, I found a jar of wild mushrooms in balsamic vinegar at the grocery store, bought it, added it to my antipasto salad I had made, and it is QUITE excellent.
Well, I started my classes two weeks ago. Stuff was going fine. Then I went to Careers in Music class on Wednesday at 4 pm, and was like wow. This is so cool. I love this stuff.
And I realized that every time Dr. Schauer sends out an email saying there's a conducting opportunity at this church or a teaching opportunity at this school, I basically ignore it and go onto the next email. Yes, I think teaching music would be fun, I think I'd be good at it... but the thing is, I'm not excited about it. I'm actually sort of dreading it.
And I realized that every time an opportunity comes up to be someone's photographer or work with creating an image for musicians or something like that, I'm all over it (like flies on a corpse, which was the first simile which came to mind last week when I was talking about this). And I get excited about it and I build my portfolio and I know I do good work.
Around 4:30 I started looking up various major requirements and doing math on Excel (by math I mean organizing classes into semesters) and by the end of class at 6 I was somewhat confident that I would change my major. So I went home and said to my roommates, individually, I think I'm going to change my major. They said "you're going to WHAT? to what?" and I said from music education to music business and from BA studio art to BFA photography. And then they all said "yeah that makes more sense for you."
Thursday morning I went into campus, talked to my pseudo-advisor, went to my real advisors, and made the changes. Eric Johnson, the music advisor, said are you sure you want me to put the change in? and I said don't ask me that or I'll change my mind. Now I'm running around trying to add two classes two weeks into school and dropping three (couldn't be happier about dropping piano for music educators, although I lied and told Dr. Zdechlich that I would miss having her class)
Sure, I could be basically done with a music major in vocal studies, but the music business is what I want (and it's only 5 more classes to complete). And they're accepting applications for the BFA programs until the 15th. I'm still doing my minor in arts management too. And I feel really good about this. It was sad having to tell one of my favorite professors I was going to have to drop his class, but even though he was sad, he was supportive.
So anyway, I can still do all this in the 6 years I was planning on, with all semesters around 18 units (that's if I don't take any summer classes or do summer internships, which I might - two internships required - one for Music Business and one for my thematic minor) and I can now graduate with Honors, I'm pretty sure. In the music ed degree, all the required classes are specific, so an honors thesis would have been on top of that. As a BFA student, there are x number of upper division classes required, and honors thesis counts for upper division in your major, so it looks like I will be having a solo show (that's generally what a BFA art thesis is) and graduating with honors. Things will be sort of shaken up for a little while till I can get my semester schedule settled out, and I feel weird about switching majors in my 5th year, and I sort of feel like I'm shocking people or letting people down (but not the ones who really know me) so all in all, I'm really happy about taking this risk.
Completely off topic, I found a jar of wild mushrooms in balsamic vinegar at the grocery store, bought it, added it to my antipasto salad I had made, and it is QUITE excellent.