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Songbird76

Songbird76

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MouseDreaming said:
Expecting a high of 50 today, and first freeze warnings for tonight. And where will I be? Last home football game, walking across the field with my senior, trying to not start crying. And after, trying to warm up in the band hall, and trying to keep it together during his senior speech. This senior year stuff is starting to get too real.:cry:
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Sympathy like. What is the speech for?
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
It doesn't say anything about a negative connotation though.
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it depends on the context. I dont think the english were thinking pretty words when they invaded and practised genocide/conquest on the nations they conquered.
remember during that time.. the european nations were really arrogant on their conquest forces and culture and always seen others(specially natives) as "godless" savages.
 
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StarWarsGirl

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Songbird76 said:
So for the 4 credit hour class, you are in class 4 hours a week, right? That's the way it worked for the most part where I went to school, but music was different. We had so many classes we had to take (like the pedagogy classes for each instrument group) that they reduced the credit you got for each one to only 1 credit hour, though you were in class for 3 hours a week. The exception were the courses that weren't major specific, like "World music" which was considered a humanity and a writing course and a global credit, so a LOT of non-majors took that class. If filled so many of their requirements with only one class, so it was really popular, and it was worth 3 credits. But things like choruses were only worth 1 credit, even though I had the one 5 hours a week, and the other two groups 3 hours a week and then opera/music theater and chamber choir were 2- 3 hours a week as well. Convocation was a zero credit class but was required every semester to graduate. So we'd have 13-15 classes just to be considered full-time, and we were in class all day, every day. A lot of people didn't think it was possible to have so many classes since most students had 3-4 classes per semester, but music was its own different animal.
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Yikes. That's a lot of time in class. All of that time doesn't sound particularly good for your voice either.

Basically, yes, for a four credit class you're there four hours a week. Although nothing is exact. Chorus, for instance, is two credits, but you're there 3 hours a week. And then I had one credit first year seminars that were only 50 minutes long. Plus professors don't always keep you the entire time. This semester I almost never get out of class early. My finance professor let us off 20 minutes early and I was shocked.

Most students have jobs these days just to pay for college. As many classes as you had wouldn't work.
 
Songbird76

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
Yikes. That's a lot of time in class. All of that time doesn't sound particularly good for your voice either.

Basically, yes, for a four credit class you're there four hours a week. Although nothing is exact. Chorus, for instance, is two credits, but you're there 3 hours a week. And then I had one credit first year seminars that were only 50 minutes long. Plus professors don't always keep you the entire time. This semester I almost never get out of class early. My finance professor let us off 20 minutes early and I was shocked.

Most students have jobs these days just to pay for college. As many classes as you had wouldn't work.
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My voice got used to it and it wasn't that many every day. The only chorus I had every day was only 1 hour long and then on Mon. and Wed. day I had an hour and a half of vocal Jazz later, and then the other chorus for an hour and a half. On Tuesdays and thursdays a couple of semesters I had either Opera or Musical theater, but I didn't do it every semester, and Chamber choir was only one year while we had a grad assistant to direct because she needed to direct an ensemble for her degree. So that one was only one year, and then I fit in a different class at that time, instead. But I worked evenings and weekends, about 8-10 hours per week because that's the only time I had. It was a REALLY busy schedule.
 
French Quarter

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Feeling silly.

A bunch of schools in my city were in lockdown this morning. The police were trying to find a suspect who was spotted outside the high school caring a gun in a soft case. When I heard about this, I went and got my son from his school because it made me feel better to have him home with me. Throughout the day, more and more schools went on lockdown or were secured as the police kept looking. We decided to take a drive to a city an hour away when I heard the police scanner say they were searching a couple of streets over from our house. They finally apprehended the suspect and he was carrying an odd umbrella in a case. . . .

I guess I can go home now. *embarassed*
 
catmom46

catmom46

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Songbird76 said:
So for the 4 credit hour class, you are in class 4 hours a week, right? That's the way it worked for the most part where I went to school, but music was different. We had so many classes we had to take (like the pedagogy classes for each instrument group) that they reduced the credit you got for each one to only 1 credit hour, though you were in class for 3 hours a week. The exception were the courses that weren't major specific, like "World music" which was considered a humanity and a writing course and a global credit, so a LOT of non-majors took that class. If filled so many of their requirements with only one class, so it was really popular, and it was worth 3 credits. But things like choruses were only worth 1 credit, even though I had the one 5 hours a week, and the other two groups 3 hours a week and then opera/music theater and chamber choir were 2- 3 hours a week as well. Convocation was a zero credit class but was required every semester to graduate. So we'd have 13-15 classes just to be considered full-time, and we were in class all day, every day. A lot of people didn't think it was possible to have so many classes since most students had 3-4 classes per semester, but music was its own different animal.
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We had a conservatory at our college and I was always astounded how double degree students survived that workload!
 
catmom46

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French Quarter said:
Feeling silly.

A bunch of schools in my city were in lockdown this morning. The police were trying to find a suspect who was spotted outside the high school caring a gun in a soft case. When I heard about this, I went and got my son from his school because it made me feel better to have him home with me. Throughout the day, more and more schools went on lockdown or were secured as the police kept looking. We decided to take a drive to a city an hour away when I heard the police scanner say they were searching a couple of streets over from our house. They finally apprehended the suspect and he was carrying an odd umbrella in a case. . . .

I guess I can go home now. *embarassed*
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Why embarrassed? I'd probably do the same thing.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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catmom46 said:
We had a conservatory at our college and I was always astounded how double degree students survived that workload!
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I look back now and wonder how I survived it myself! But I really loved most of it. Theory was kind of the bane of my existence since I had never had that in my high school and had to start from scratch, but all the choirs were heaven.
 
catmom46

catmom46

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Songbird76 said:
I look back now and wonder how I survived it myself! But I really loved most of it. Theory was kind of the bane of my existence since I had never had that in my high school and had to start from scratch, but all the choirs were heaven.
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I can imagine. I wish I could have known what I loved to do and gone to college for it. I was so concerned with just getting into college I didn't really think about what I wanted to do. :oops:
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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catmom46 said:
I can imagine. I wish I could have known what I loved to do and gone to college for it. I was so concerned with just getting into college I didn't really think about what I wanted to do. :oops:
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Well, I went through 5 years of school, graduated with honors, then did only half a year of teaching before I figured out I hated it. So it kind of turned out to be a waste. I love singing, but I was not meant to teach. I discovered that I really don't like a lot of other people's children...at least not the ones in the school where I was teaching! Better to take a bit more time to think about it and get it right the first time.
 
catmom46

catmom46

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iAJ said:
Hey guys, sorry if this is a bad place to ask this, but I just applied for the college program last night and have not received an email to do the web based interview yet. I'm just a bit worried since last time I received the invitation very shortly after applying. Anyone know if it just takes longer sometimes? I can't imagine why I would have been invited to do it last time but not this time, especially since now I actually work in the company at my local Disney Store.
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No worries, but maybe you should post your question in this forum instead? http://forums.wdwmagic.com/forums/employment-college-program-international.36/
 

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