school. w00t.
Sep. 29th, 2006 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmastolenso. it's only the second day of school and already i spent part of the morning napping in the lobby of schoenberg. yaaay, tired! school is definitely in.
i have calculus at eight in the morning, four days a week, which is kind of arse, especially since it is already going to be an assload of work, I think (reading assignments for which we have to create blogs & about which we must post. gag. and this is in addition to problem sets) ... but the professor seems good, and my TA is really cute. honestly, this is the first TA i've had that i can potentially crush on. it's really exciting. this, my friends, is what college is supposed to be about.
and music theory which is still awesome but with lots of transfers which is kind of irksome since they're throwing off the class dynamic, and in which i have backslid A LOT... and music history which is going to be amazing and fun! professor upton is really funny and exciting... and apparently all my friends who are taking the class think i'm exactly like her. which is a little bit spooky. but she's really awesome. and after one of them said so during the lecture, i started to be able to see it, which was also a little weird. *shrug* history too has blog assignments, which i am really not keen on; i wasn't that into the e-mail assignments for shakespeare last fall, and i wasn't that into the blog assignments in my seminar in spring, and i'm not into the ones this year, either. you know, from a perspective of not having tried any of them yet.
also, physics. the stuff we did today was things we covered in AP-C with Costanza (whether or not i actually absorbed/retained it is debatable), but the prof talks really fast and mumbles... i dunno. at least it only has the traditional problem sets, to be handed in weekly. that's good. somewhat relieving.
i'm kind of sad that the office hours of basically all my professors and TA's conflict with my other classes. not that i went to office hours last year, except for maureen's a couple times because she made us. *shrug* whatev.
i have not yet been to intro to conducting, which i wasn't actually going to take, but then thomas said i really should if it didn't conflict with anything this year, so now i am... and also not lessons or ensembles (with the exception of marching bnad (yes that's an intentional typo it amuses me and i don't remember why)).
once i get enrolled in everything, i think i'll have something ridiculous like 28 units (over-achiever much?) ... the big classes are theory, history, conducting, physics, and calc; the 2-uniters are lessons, bnad, wind ensemble, and orchestra (whichever one i get into. assuming i make either one this year, which is probable i think since my audition this year was far far better than last year's and also i've played for neal & dan now).
my teacher this year is john steinmetz, who plays first in the LA Opera and also does studio work and teaches at CSU Fullerton. my mom asked john (campbell) about him, and she said he likes him, and thinks i will, too, which is definitely cool; i'm pretty excited. he e-mailed us about setting up our first lessons on wednesday, and i think we're kind of intended to communally decide on who is going to go when, but so far only two of us have actually replied to the e-mail (myself included) and i'm kind of getting antsy about it, since there's really only one-and-a-half time slots that i can do... my schedule is insanely tight this year. i barely managed to squeeze in shortish lunch/practise breaks, and not even that on tuesdays, which will go (if i make philharmonia) straight from nine to seven with only ten-minute breaks to dash between classes. Luckily that's the day I don't have math at eight. still, it's not much. i'm not sure how much practise time i'll actually be able to get in yet, which is a little bit scary. it'll be scarier when i actually have shit to practise, and my drive to actually do so ebbs. i mean, there's always at night... but i also have homework that i'll need to do then... and having a life might be nice, since i have all these new friends in bnad... *bites lip* I may have bitten off more than I can chew.
But!!! tomorrow is my first football game and i am SO EXCITED. I even get to march this one (although it's a little scary since I only found out today and had to learn the spot (which is on the opposite side of the field & the forms than I'm used to, so I have to flip all the direction changes and alter my step size appropriately) in about three run-throughs at rehearsal this afternoon, and i feel kind of bad because it's because tracy is sick as a dog with whatever it is that's going around the apartments right now, and because danae keeps having to try to guide me into the forms by sticking her arm out along the diagonal we should be making)... but anyway. pregame. yeah. and also it's Band Day, which I still don't really understand, except instead of our Show 1 (which is sexy and jazz and btw jazz = sex if i have not so noted before) we make a big block with a bunch of high school bands and play songs from Aladdin. so i actually have my own spot for that, which is cool, too. except that i guess for that there's a tracy-shaped hole somewhere, which sucks. but oh well. also we're all a little bummed because we lost one of our number, marshall -- he's a freshman music ed major and his main instrument is tuba and he was by far the best player in the section and a damn good marcher as well... but he was an alternate like me, because he would have had a conflict with choir, and as it turns out bnad conflicts with everything else he wants to do this quarter, so he decided to leave the band. i understand that, and it's fine, but we miss him. also if he hadn't dropped, he would be marching tracy's spot, since he was actually shadowing someone on that side of the field & would therefore be less likely to be confused. *sigh* Also. White Dinkles!! hee. i think bnad might be my current favourite class. is that sad?
anyway, um, yeah. now i should start homework, i guess, since that's why i decided not to go to the women's volleyball game tonight and bond with bnad people. yeah.
i have calculus at eight in the morning, four days a week, which is kind of arse, especially since it is already going to be an assload of work, I think (reading assignments for which we have to create blogs & about which we must post. gag. and this is in addition to problem sets) ... but the professor seems good, and my TA is really cute. honestly, this is the first TA i've had that i can potentially crush on. it's really exciting. this, my friends, is what college is supposed to be about.
and music theory which is still awesome but with lots of transfers which is kind of irksome since they're throwing off the class dynamic, and in which i have backslid A LOT... and music history which is going to be amazing and fun! professor upton is really funny and exciting... and apparently all my friends who are taking the class think i'm exactly like her. which is a little bit spooky. but she's really awesome. and after one of them said so during the lecture, i started to be able to see it, which was also a little weird. *shrug* history too has blog assignments, which i am really not keen on; i wasn't that into the e-mail assignments for shakespeare last fall, and i wasn't that into the blog assignments in my seminar in spring, and i'm not into the ones this year, either. you know, from a perspective of not having tried any of them yet.
also, physics. the stuff we did today was things we covered in AP-C with Costanza (whether or not i actually absorbed/retained it is debatable), but the prof talks really fast and mumbles... i dunno. at least it only has the traditional problem sets, to be handed in weekly. that's good. somewhat relieving.
i'm kind of sad that the office hours of basically all my professors and TA's conflict with my other classes. not that i went to office hours last year, except for maureen's a couple times because she made us. *shrug* whatev.
i have not yet been to intro to conducting, which i wasn't actually going to take, but then thomas said i really should if it didn't conflict with anything this year, so now i am... and also not lessons or ensembles (with the exception of marching bnad (yes that's an intentional typo it amuses me and i don't remember why)).
once i get enrolled in everything, i think i'll have something ridiculous like 28 units (over-achiever much?) ... the big classes are theory, history, conducting, physics, and calc; the 2-uniters are lessons, bnad, wind ensemble, and orchestra (whichever one i get into. assuming i make either one this year, which is probable i think since my audition this year was far far better than last year's and also i've played for neal & dan now).
my teacher this year is john steinmetz, who plays first in the LA Opera and also does studio work and teaches at CSU Fullerton. my mom asked john (campbell) about him, and she said he likes him, and thinks i will, too, which is definitely cool; i'm pretty excited. he e-mailed us about setting up our first lessons on wednesday, and i think we're kind of intended to communally decide on who is going to go when, but so far only two of us have actually replied to the e-mail (myself included) and i'm kind of getting antsy about it, since there's really only one-and-a-half time slots that i can do... my schedule is insanely tight this year. i barely managed to squeeze in shortish lunch/practise breaks, and not even that on tuesdays, which will go (if i make philharmonia) straight from nine to seven with only ten-minute breaks to dash between classes. Luckily that's the day I don't have math at eight. still, it's not much. i'm not sure how much practise time i'll actually be able to get in yet, which is a little bit scary. it'll be scarier when i actually have shit to practise, and my drive to actually do so ebbs. i mean, there's always at night... but i also have homework that i'll need to do then... and having a life might be nice, since i have all these new friends in bnad... *bites lip* I may have bitten off more than I can chew.
But!!! tomorrow is my first football game and i am SO EXCITED. I even get to march this one (although it's a little scary since I only found out today and had to learn the spot (which is on the opposite side of the field & the forms than I'm used to, so I have to flip all the direction changes and alter my step size appropriately) in about three run-throughs at rehearsal this afternoon, and i feel kind of bad because it's because tracy is sick as a dog with whatever it is that's going around the apartments right now, and because danae keeps having to try to guide me into the forms by sticking her arm out along the diagonal we should be making)... but anyway. pregame. yeah. and also it's Band Day, which I still don't really understand, except instead of our Show 1 (which is sexy and jazz and btw jazz = sex if i have not so noted before) we make a big block with a bunch of high school bands and play songs from Aladdin. so i actually have my own spot for that, which is cool, too. except that i guess for that there's a tracy-shaped hole somewhere, which sucks. but oh well. also we're all a little bummed because we lost one of our number, marshall -- he's a freshman music ed major and his main instrument is tuba and he was by far the best player in the section and a damn good marcher as well... but he was an alternate like me, because he would have had a conflict with choir, and as it turns out bnad conflicts with everything else he wants to do this quarter, so he decided to leave the band. i understand that, and it's fine, but we miss him. also if he hadn't dropped, he would be marching tracy's spot, since he was actually shadowing someone on that side of the field & would therefore be less likely to be confused. *sigh* Also. White Dinkles!! hee. i think bnad might be my current favourite class. is that sad?
anyway, um, yeah. now i should start homework, i guess, since that's why i decided not to go to the women's volleyball game tonight and bond with bnad people. yeah.
