Ohhhhh it is the end of the semester, and a Friday night where I have stared at two books that need to be read (its for history, ancient greece and rome...) and written on by Monday all night. I guess its getting it in my head if I get it done I can do the project I really want to do and live life a little more normally. I should look at grad school sites to get me motivated, you can't get there unless you get through here! (okay doesn't work as well as the yankee phrase) Oh, the life of an undergrad. I can't wait til grad school its probably considerably harder, like the week before-finals week every day. I am tired and burnt writing fragmented, thoughts unclear. I am mostly writing this to mark today as a great day. I finally completed my individual major proposal. 11 drafts a billion meetings talk talk talk adding problems, thinking problems, stress etc and about two weeks later its finally done. Now, I hope it gets approved, with a cherry on top. Okay maybe not the cherry but I do like shirley temples with the cherries in them... SO random. And if it does get approved which is most likely, cause the Dean was down with me, I have an awesome journey left here at UMF. Everything is so certain now. I sat down and planned the next two years here and everything is road mapped by me its what I want this is my major, not something to conform to. I am making the step to show hey I am ready to take on the responsibility of a student who knows where they want to go. Amazing just music and writing (with two more history, one math, and a philosophy course left) courses for the rest of my days, its so focused and I will probably produce some of my best work ever. If there was something I learned from this semester it was 1. be human and 2. I was really unhappy with the idea of conforming and taking classes I didn't want to take (IE the arts component of my music/arts major.. ex-2D (even though it was fun.. it was a big 'wish i was putting my time into something more music-researching class) though I probably would have liked to take another studio art course, or I might audit to take a new media course once we have that here).
Another huge huge huge thing is coming up NEXT SEMESTER. I am TAing next semester for the Electro Acoustic music course! BAH HA HA! and what comes with that is possibly a new performance group at good ol UMF: electro acoustic ensemble. I think it should be called The UMF Puppets With Beats, or The UMF Puppets with Synths and not afraid to use them electronic ensemble, or UMF electro acoustic puppets. Just kidding, though it would be funny... Seriously the UMFEAE (UMF electro acoustic ensemble) or whatever it is called is going to be incredibly cool. More details later on that subject though.
Over break I will have time to do a little of my own composing.. I might tackle the Italia Project that I said I would do all summer. Since I can't work a ton over break I am looking forward to snowboarding almost every day and writing music. ITS LIKE A VACATION! NO WAY! But I want to stay on top of things read for music seminar, and Beethoven read City of Falling Angels for pleasure have fun maybe doing some sort of research who knows, its wide open right now except for my cousin coming up but thats going to be a BLAST. Next semester I am pulling 16 cr. I will be pulling 16 for the next 3 semesters after this spring better start now. So I will be TAing Electro acoustic then for classes I have Beethoven, Music Seminar II, Advanced English Comp, Feature Writing, and US History II. Looks interesting I must say... I am predicting going insane and starting to go grey (though its not in my family... that much). HA! I love it! I am not complaining. I should go to bed I am beat.
