Husband and I have been very blessed to have a chance to go to a school full of opportunities. We have access to all sorts of resources that at my old college we didn't have, and the teachers are willing to talk with you and help you understand what you're learning. We have all sorts of opportunities for additional learning, too- they offer not only minors, but clusters, which are like two mini minors that you can take in place of one minor. It's so wonderful!
So why do I feel like I don't have enough time to do everything I want while I'm here?
Here's the deal: I'm a Bachelor of Arts in Music, kind of with a trumpet emphasis. I have a cluster in composition/conducting, and a second cluster in creative writing. I have a bunch of electives that I have to pick and take for my major, and I asked them if I could take non-major music lessons for those electives. They told me 'No'. This is terrible! I want to take trumpet, piano and organ lessons! But I don't have time! Isn't that terrible? I don't have enough time to take lessons because they won't allow me to. It doesn't help that I'm trying to finish in four semesters so that when Husband gets a really great job somewhere and if we have to move for that job then I will be able to finish (because transferring again would be awful!) and graduate college. But because they won't allow music lessons to count for electives, I'm stuck trying to pick classes that I don't want to take.
I'm kind of upset about the whole thing. I'm here to further my education, and I want to be able to play the piano and the organ and the trumpet, and be able to teach all those things to my future children and other people's children as well. They won't allow me to do what I would like... and I don't know how I will be able to do that after I graduate, except to find a piano teacher and have them help me learn more. I'm so frustrated. What on earth can I do?
What are the electives that you have to choose from? Some of them could be unexpectedly fun :)
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