Wind of Fenrir
I'm curious, how was the major in music/minor in mathematics? I've heard that a music major steals your soul; was it difficult to keep up with both?
Just to be clear, they were both majors.
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It was slightly easier for me because I started way ahead in terms of my math classes, so that major was pretty much completed in 3 years. In fact, I started with 16 credits from AP tests, which put me pretty much a full semester ahead. So, the double major itself was pretty easy to manage.
Music, as a major, only got bad when I let it take over my life. When I started branching out into new instruments (truth is, I've only been a percussionist for two and a half years), my responsibilities skyrocketed. The program at my school was very small when I started and grew like a weed. For instance, we didn't even have a marching band when I first stepped on campus; my senior year, we had 120 people marching. When it was just choir, it was okay, but when it was choir, concert band, marching band, jazz band, percussion ensemble, AND someone else's senior project... you might lose track of yourself.
gonk I got to the point in one semester where I had 6 hours of rehearsal a night for 4 nights a week, not to mention needed to find time to practice outside of that. Boy, was that a major mistake.
You do what you want to do. You make the mistakes you want to make. And, if you lose almost all of your sanity in the process, you take the time you need to recover.
xd That's why I'm not even thinking about grad schools right now. I've had my fill of music and need to take some time to live without it before we can get along again.
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