Heh. I did two years as a music major at a community college before going to UofA. In the first sememster of Music Theory, there were a couple dozen students. By the end of the fourth semester, there two of us left in the program. The rest either decided they were not suited for it, or came to the realization that music is not a 'gimme' degree - it actually takes hard work and study.
Being in the music department was a real awakening for me.
In a small high school and in church I'd been a star. Had a director at a choral festival say "I've rarely heard such a clear tenor voice." So, I got to thinking that music was the route for me.
But I got to school and was thrown into a situation where everyone had been the star.
Then I did my audition for the music department. The first thing they said was "You're not a tenor."
It was downhill from there...