Posted on 04/01/2003 4:49:51 AM PST by JohnHuang2
The time that goes into music training is truly astonishing, you're right. And, three hours a day of practice really is a minimum! Harvey Phillips and Bill Bell required a commitment of four hours a day, excluding lessons, rehearsals, master classes and performances.
My daughter is currently in the Prep Division at Manhattan School of Music, in the top orchestra. The level of performance is very impressive: at least as good as a mid-ranking professional orchestra. I was blown away at their performance of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique a couple of weeks ago. I am amazed at these kids' dedication.
I agonize when I hear stories like the Columbia professor's "million Mogadishus" lecture, but, really, if your kid has self-esteem/confidence already, she will come to the "right" conclusions if she is naturally curious enough.
Intelligence and logic will prevail over indoctrination attempts by stuck-in-60's prophet wannabees because we conservatives are creating a 60's backlash that makes Hillary Clinton sob, I'm sure.
I graduated from one of the most liberal/radical colleges in the world, none the worse for it, and look where I ended up! FreeRepublic.com!
The name of your school is important before you do anything. Your son will have a track record after graduation and before the business or professional world.
When I am picking medical students, I care where they went to school only if they have no work or other relevant experience.
Your undergraduate school is a surrogate marker for what you can do-and not a very good one, at that.
Pick the one you like best, and don't worry about it.
Sometimes, if I have a few hundred bucks to burn, I enroll in "diversity classes" just to have myself some fun raising hell with the Marxists.
I don't have a degree, but I take computer courses as I need them. I could never justify forking over scores of kilobucks for a fancy piece of parchment.
See, I run my own computer house-call business, and it's somewhat successful, so those HR f**ks who turn their noses up at anyone without a degree can kiss my hairy white butt. I'd hire a smart, self-taught kid who knows his stuff over a pompous, arrogant, PC-indoctrinated college grad any day.
A large number of people do indeed meet their spouse in college, and very often the sort of people with whom you are friends in college are the sort of people you will be friends with throughout life. Class is a factor in America, though one not much discussed. If you are typically middle or upper-middle class in background, you are unlikely to be comfortable at a school in which most of the students come from working class backgrounds. Likewise, if you are a strong Catholic, you might not be comfortable at an evangelical Protestant school or a rabidly leftist or Jewish school (e.g. Brandeis), or vice versa.
The only way to get a good feel about these sorts of issues is to (1) visit when students are around, preferably for an overnight visit, and (2) if possible, see who from which schools (and prep schools) in your area is currently at XYZ college, that could be very indicative of the class orientation of the school.
Yes, she was telling me about a senior who is about to graduate and that she is practicing 8 (!) hours per day. She is working her way up to more practice time.
As for the 5-6 years to graduate with a Bachelor's degree; due to the AP and college credit courses she took in high school, my daughter is technically finishing her sophmore year, but is rated a Junior. She figures to have enough credits to graduate after the first semester of her senior year. She is thinking of using her time after that preparing for auditions for graduate school.
As a parent of a daughter who is paying out-of-state tuition, please believe me when I say --- TAKE THIS DEAL!
In interviews with prospective employers, many found it useful to conceal or de-emphasize their women's studies majors.
Women's Studies Majors seem to have developed a reputation that prospective employers aren't eager to deal with.
This burden is even higher because more than half of student borrowers take out the more expensive unsubsidized loans. Surveys show that students often underestimate the total cost of their loans, forgetting about the interest, which over time can almost double the amount of the loan.
The use of credit cards by mostly unemployed college students is another current phenomenon. The average credit-card debt of undergraduate students is $2,748, and of graduate students is $4,776. The average student is carrying three credit cards, and 32 percent have four or more.
Great. This will certainly help prepare for the dissolution of Social Securiy, raise a family and pay the bills on time. Also the reason many post grad students have so much credit card debt is NOT due to splurging on crap but as we have very little disposable income for such things as groceries and car payments, we're boxed in.
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