January 2012
8 posts
Education.
I was watching the news today and I briefly heard some high school students in an inner city school saying “Education gets you everywhere,” and “…it gets you to college, it gets you a degree…”
And so, I realized higher education is not for everyone– whether it be due to fiscal concern, lack of confidence, or even the inability to attend school based on mental capacity. Some people simply aren’t...
What do you listen to?
Just because you listen to a certain genre in music, does that define the person you are?
I hear a lot of the time “What kind of music do you like?” And because I’m a music major, does this mean I’m automatically expected to answer “Mozart. Only Mozart.” Likely.
However, if I answer Streisand, does that make me not modern?
If I answer Katy Perry to an average teen, does that make me...
“You know the character of a person not by what they say about themselves, but by...”
Light.
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Do I have any hope, that even going to one of the best schools for education can help get me my dream career?
For now, I work in a glorified soap shop, where *I know* people don’t treat me with even the least bit of respect I deserve. Gossip flies around, suddenly I’m “immature,” a “gossip queen,” and people are...
Ear Worms
“A Professor of Marketing at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Kellaris believes that certain musical pieces excite the brain in an abnormal way. The brain in its frenzy to understand that piece will play it over and over, like a bad rash. Songs likely to get stuck in the space between your ears, according to Kellaris, tend to be repetitive, mind numbingly simple and feature...
First blog post.
In the beginning, I wanted to sing. I also wanted to write, act, teach, become a therapist, and so on. Pretty much everything, except juggling, was carte blanche in my mind. In the beginning, I did not want to be a music teacher– I decided I wanted to be a Vocal Performance major. That decision was quickly changed by my mother, whom I must thank now. However, at 17, how do you honestly pick...
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect...”
– http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/weirdness