More Careers Stuff: Schools

There are a bunch of schools that hover in the back of my brain. I'm still not entirely sure of any of them. Of course, I'm thinking of music here.

1. U of T. Uber competitive, uber huge, uber mean. My piano teacher says that if you go into the practice areas while people are practicing there, you'll hear one person start playing a Beethoven Sonata, then the next practice room over you'll hear someone else start to play it faster, and then in another practice room someone will play it faster. U of T breaks more musicians than it makes them. That's why the nickname is "factory of music" instead of The faculty.

I've heard of the prestigious violin program at Julliard. I haven't really looked into it. I would assume it's also uber competitive.

One place that has been hovering in the back of my mind for awhile is Hillsong University in Australia. It has a Praise and Worship program. I'd love to go there if I took a one year program or something. But would I be able to do four years away from home?

9 days and counting

Hurrah hurrah.  School is almost out.  Ugh.  Nine Days!  Argghhh!!!

Sorry about that. That's just my pessimistic side showing through: you know, the one who doesn't think that it's possible to finish these nine days in one piece.  I'm not entirely sure why, but  every little problem and worry possible converges on the last few weeks of school.  I remember that the last three days last year seemed like a sink hole... 

Perhaps it's all the projects that are due (and the ones I've procrastinated upon), and perhaps it's just the call of the outdoors.  But I think that my "misery" is mainly for two reasons: the late assignments that I haven't done yet and need to very soon, and the fact that at least three of my friends are going through really rough times and are getting into some really messed up stuff.

*sigh*  I know, I know... just give it over to God... but why is that so hard sometimes?

To close off this self-pitiful blog entry, here's a picture that I think describes how school should be... :)  Kitties!!!!

                                    

Prom: popularity from the outside

       This Friday I went my friend's prom as his prom date. Apart from being quite wonderful, it was also slightly fascinating, because I was able to have an outside view on what was quite obviously a popularity contest.

      Besides my friend, I knew a couple other people from my orchestra: my good friend Andrea, her friend Amy, and Dave, who happens to be Andrea's good friend, my friend at the best of times, and quite pompous.  I also knew a couple of other people who had gone to my elementary school, and Jeremy, who is Dave's friend and is apparently a horrible person. :)  

      Of course, the evening was sprinkled with liberal amounts of "Prom Drama": furtive angry whispers about how one girl had apparently attempted sabotage on another's dress, dirty looks, and people running to the bathroom crying.  (The one girl that I personally saw crying wasn't actually a victim of the drama as we originally thought, apparently her brother had just died!)

      However, the thing that got me thinking the most was the "Class" slideshow, put together by one of the members of the prom committee.  They had apparently asked students to submit photos of themselves to put in the slideshow.  However, after those were finished off, the rest of the fifteen minute presentation was made up of pictures of the current reigning clique, and the friends of the girl who made the slideshow!  It was actually kind of ridiculous: I counted up to about twenty five appearances or more by some people, while some people I knew made it on there once or not at all.  It was almost as if it was some sort of statement: either you're on here or you don't belong.

      To follow this up, I was talking to my friend Red who is a graduate of that particular school, and he said that he didn't like his prom all that much because "it seemed like one giant popularity contest."  He had no idea how right he was.

Hi Jonas :)

iPod!

Aiaiai!  That music player now embedded in my blog took WAY too much time to organize. It's awesome though :)

The way to get it playing is this: if it says a freakish message like Pending Data, press play.  It will probably then say paused.  Push play again, and it should work.  If you can't read the buttons, play and pause is the top button.  Switch songs by pushing the right or left buttons.

Peace out :)

Nerds are a sub-culture

In today's standards, I would be classified as a nerd.  In all honesty, I love it.

Of course there are different sub-categories with in the title of nerd, but they all have some things in common.  1.) People who do not blend in with the crowd or 2.) have no desire to blend in with the crowd.  3.) People who have interests are contrary to the interests of the large majority of people and 4.) exploit those interests when possible.  5.) People who are seclusive or 6.) people who simply have no urge to hang out with the popular crowd, due to the fact that they are not 7.) accepted or 8.) are viewed as oddities.  

I just started reading this fantastic blog on the MacLean's website, made by a sixteen-year-old bio nerd (self-christened) who is going into university next year.  

It's interesting how some people feel a pressing urge to climb the social ladder, while others feel comfortable where they are, and therefore do not care.  It's also interesting how much the views on a certain stereotypical culture group change depending on who you ask.  An example would be the term emo, which actually means emotionally unstable and is actually rude to call someone, vs. the kid in my class who lives a self-proclaimed emo lifestyle and scrawled Life, Death, Emo! on a portable door last spring.

I am a self-proclaimed music nerd, but I know people who would rather jump off a cliff than "insult themselves" in that fashion.  *smirk*  One person's trash is another's treasure I guess.

What I expect to get out of Careers Class

I'm looking forward to Careers Class.  I like my teacher alot :D

I also hope that this will open up doors for me, or even close them.  Maybe opening doors isn't the problem, it's choosing the one to go through.  Oh well, I'll have God to guide me.  I think Careers class will be fun, and probably good for my schedule (as we don't get homework too much.)  I'm behind on work in other classes as it is.  Ahhh!

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Motivation

I can't keep myself motivated when doing homework.  ARGH!!!

I hate this.

Confused and counting

It seems almost silly to be worrying about my future so much, but I can't help it. There is so much I am interested in, and I don't know what path to take. I guess all I can do is hand it over to God, but it's so hard to just let go. It's like relinquishing control over you life.

There are several different areas that I'm interested in.  I'm interested in theatre, in music, and in writing.  I don't know what way to pursue.  In one way I fee really  drawn to music, but in the other way, everyone expects me to do it, so I feel pressured sometime.  Like when I was circling career choices on a web the other day in class, somebody looked at it and said "I thought all yours would be about music!" It irks me.  I resent that.

I really love acting, and it's one of my passions.  However, every little girl's dream is to become an actress, and it's so hard to make it.  I don't even want to go there really.  I'd love to do theatre.

I don't know.