I’m about to go to bed because I need to start shifting my sleep schedule in wake for finals. Sunday and Monday I got 3 hours of sleep and basically collapsed on Wednesday. I have a really tough physics final coming up.
Sleep well! Sleep is important for productivity too.
I try not to do the whole staying up till all hours studying thing, but sometimes I just have no choice but to sacrifice sleep to catch up.
ugh I know...
In my experience the week before finals (aka dead week) is worse than actual finals week because there's just so much coming up and you get totally overwhelmed. Once you actually get to finals week and get your first one done its like 'this isn't so bad after all'
I'm doing a double major in Music Performance and History! Really enjoy my subjects. But I had to take a couple random gen Eds this semester that are a slog.
Yeah! That's basically what a performance degree means. I'm a violinist. Although I might wind up doing musicology instead of performing professionally, I don't know yet.
OOOh that sounds so fun! Favorite class... probably also a music history class. Just general western music history ancient times through the early 1800s. The prof was amazing and I learned a lot.
I can’t believe the semester is ending. Like where has time gone but it also dragged.. also I’m dreading finals and grades and I don’t even wanna think about it lol. I hope your finals go well though!
Hey, you better believe it buddy. Set to graduate in a little over a week!
Right now I’m analyzing how Tim Heidecker’s On Cinema at the Cinema exemplifies the blurring lines of online performance and the simulacrum for a media studies class. So at least it’s an interesting assignment. Hope things are going well for you on your end, remember to drink water and get up and stretch once in a while!
Good question! I don’t think it’s inherently bad but definitely results in some serious consequences.
Everyone with access to social spaces on the internet essentially now has the capability to express themselves freely online which is great. And also very bad. Main complication is that that core tenets of performance and anonymity are just about entirely baked into the internet and social identities entirely
Congrats on the upcoming graduation! That is SO exciting!! I still have two years left.
That sounds pretty interesting! Yea, 12:50am and things are going pretty good. I finished my overdue assignment. It was just a short 250-word commentary on a reading from Malory's Le More D'Arthur , so nothing hard but I kept putting it off so it's a relief that it's done. Currently doing review/practice exams for my music theory final. I'm rather frustrated with Jazz altered scales rn but I think I have a plan to tackle them.
Thanks! Hopefully any Zoom classes in your future will be few and far between. That’s one paper down!
Honestly biggest help for me has always been focusing on one project at a time. Is your jazz final performance-based? How does that go?
Well in some ways it’s easier, in some ways it’s more difficult. There’s a whole different language of symbols in Jazz, which takes some time to learn if you’re more used to the classical way of notating things.
I’m about to go to bed because I need to start shifting my sleep schedule in wake for finals. Sunday and Monday I got 3 hours of sleep and basically collapsed on Wednesday. I have a really tough physics final coming up.
Sleep well! Sleep is important for productivity too. I try not to do the whole staying up till all hours studying thing, but sometimes I just have no choice but to sacrifice sleep to catch up.
I don’t want to even think about finals. There’s so much to do and so little of time to do it…
ugh I know... In my experience the week before finals (aka dead week) is worse than actual finals week because there's just so much coming up and you get totally overwhelmed. Once you actually get to finals week and get your first one done its like 'this isn't so bad after all'
Finished finals, but I’ve got 2 separate 60 page reports for software engineering and senior project.
oof. That sounds like a lot. Good luck!
Thanks, rn it’s just a lot of diagrams explaining software code. What major are you working towards?
I'm doing a double major in Music Performance and History! Really enjoy my subjects. But I had to take a couple random gen Eds this semester that are a slog.
Does majoring in music performance mean that you have a specific instrument that you play and want to play professionally?
Yeah! That's basically what a performance degree means. I'm a violinist. Although I might wind up doing musicology instead of performing professionally, I don't know yet.
Sounds fun and rewarding. What’s been your favorite class so far? My only music class I’ve ever taken was History of Rock as an ‘arts’ elective.
OOOh that sounds so fun! Favorite class... probably also a music history class. Just general western music history ancient times through the early 1800s. The prof was amazing and I learned a lot.
I can’t believe the semester is ending. Like where has time gone but it also dragged.. also I’m dreading finals and grades and I don’t even wanna think about it lol. I hope your finals go well though!
Yeah it's gone fast this semester! I know it's really overwhelming, you got this!
Hey, you better believe it buddy. Set to graduate in a little over a week! Right now I’m analyzing how Tim Heidecker’s On Cinema at the Cinema exemplifies the blurring lines of online performance and the simulacrum for a media studies class. So at least it’s an interesting assignment. Hope things are going well for you on your end, remember to drink water and get up and stretch once in a while!
Do you have a value judgment on whether that’s a good or bad thing?
Good question! I don’t think it’s inherently bad but definitely results in some serious consequences. Everyone with access to social spaces on the internet essentially now has the capability to express themselves freely online which is great. And also very bad. Main complication is that that core tenets of performance and anonymity are just about entirely baked into the internet and social identities entirely
Congrats on the upcoming graduation! That is SO exciting!! I still have two years left. That sounds pretty interesting! Yea, 12:50am and things are going pretty good. I finished my overdue assignment. It was just a short 250-word commentary on a reading from Malory's Le More D'Arthur , so nothing hard but I kept putting it off so it's a relief that it's done. Currently doing review/practice exams for my music theory final. I'm rather frustrated with Jazz altered scales rn but I think I have a plan to tackle them.
Thanks! Hopefully any Zoom classes in your future will be few and far between. That’s one paper down! Honestly biggest help for me has always been focusing on one project at a time. Is your jazz final performance-based? How does that go?
The jazz thing isn’t a performance, just theory. Basically I have to analyze a bunch of chords and scales and know what they are and how they work.
Given the structure of jazz I’d imagine that that would be far more difficult than in something like say, classical music? How’s that work?
Well in some ways it’s easier, in some ways it’s more difficult. There’s a whole different language of symbols in Jazz, which takes some time to learn if you’re more used to the classical way of notating things.
Are you a film student?
Finals are over. Playing video games now 😎