september.
second day of classes…
i have a feeling that i’ll be either really into my classes, or totally bored to tears. (mostly the latter, sadly)
either way, i want a 4.0 this semester. badly. more than anything. and i think i can get it.
my hair is getting more of a reaction around here than it did in the lehigh valley, but it’s all been positive.
i’m settled into my apartment and mostly unpacked/moved in and adjusting back here has been nothing. it’s like i never left… i also got a hole punched into my eyebrow yesterday to celebrate. the parentals will undoubtedly flip, but i don’t really care. it’s nice having the jewelry back in my face. hopefully no one will dismiss me as being a waste of life for it. i doubt it’ll be the first thing people notice, as the 10mm plugs in my ears are rarely the first thing anyone notices. what can i say? i get bored of things quite easily. i needed to change my appearance some more. 
so far… i enjoyed pitched percussion (maybe). the new percussion prof totally had first day jitters, but the class probably won’t be that bad.
aurals will be pretty nice… as, well… NO MORE GRADED DICTATION!
this is quite possibly some of the best news of EVER. every level of aurals, i did pretty well on sight-singing, but bombed dictation, therefore failing the course. i dropped this final level at least twice because i suck at dictation. i value my ear more than just about anything in the world… and while i can probably sing or play anything back to you on woodwinds, fiddle and a bit on piano pretty well with one or two listens, i cannot for the LIFE of me write it down. (which is what dictation is) i kind of see the point of it, but if i continue doing these sessions with friends, it is pretty useless to me. (at least compared to being able to hear what i’m doing and work from that without having to worry about notation)
i also severly dislike notation in general… it’s a nice benchmark and reference tool, and i have gotten quite good at sightreading… but i don’t care for it most of the time. it bothers me when it’s used as a crutch! it defeats the purpose of creating music, in my opinion.
so end aside, i think i’ll do pretty well this semester in aurals. it is the only class that will probably defer me from that 4.0… but a B would be nice at least. i’ll settle for that!
dr ruchti’s class will probably be my sanity net. as i honestly do not care for the rest of my courses as much as i probably should. and it’s a course on things i’m quite interested in: theatre and gender studies, and everything that stems from there.
WRT250 will most likely be a sad time-killer… writing emphasis entitled ‘investigating experience’.
intro to communications… ehhhh. i understand html, css and web design pretty well. so i’m afraid that i’ll be bored to tears.
the prof seems to be quite cool though. really chill and sarcastic. and on his ‘get-to-know-you!’ thing, he wrote for the first multiple choice ‘i am taking this course because:’, and one of the possible responses was ‘e. god told me to be here.’ the second question had ‘if you answered ‘e’ above, please specify what god wanted you to study’. bonus points for that! i took a pic of it, as it was the most priceless question i’ve ever been asked on one of these things. i wanted to circle it to be a smartass.
i’m about to head to intro to computer science. (see the pattern of gen eds emerging?) i will probably be bored to tears in that class too. after taking 300/400 level courses the past three years, these 100/200 level courses are going to make me feel like i’m wasting my life/semester. i hate not being challenged!
i also have flute ensemble and orchestra. i absolutely adore the directors of those, so i’ll enjoy them.
fall ‘09 will probably be the easiest semester i’ve ever taken. and if i don’t get a job, tuesdays will really suck. i don’t really like having this four hour break between two intro classes and orchestra. i need to be doing *something*, or i will go INSANE.
so good luck, folks with fall classes!
Tags: school, useless drivel