#collegelyfe

Please send your dankest/funniest/most ridiculous piece recommendations of music written for flute (solo, accompanied, with a small ensemble). If it’s for violin or oboe I can probably also deal. Or I can also transpose, if there is a piece on an instrument (ie Bb Clarinet) that absolutely slaps.

I have a recital for April Fools day and it should go without saying that I can not perform without something hilarious.

I don’t want to be the best from a batch of so-so people. I’d rather be the so-so one among the best people. That is one of the reason why I wanted to study in my almamater. I wanted to be surrounded by the best people, the smartest ones, the over-achieving, ambitious ones, because I need to be around them to become one of them.

Because I am the environment that I am in. 

My friends were smart, critical, and you could always talk about classroom knowledge outside of class (not to mention that they are incredibly funny yet weird), and gaining other perspectives and actually understand what the professor said during the course. Our conversations have depth, insightful, and actually motivated me to learn more and understand better. 

I am nothing like them. I seldom bring the thick textbook to class, let alone reading them after class. I fall asleep instantly in classes, no matter how small and uncomfortable the table is, no matter how close I am to the lecturer. I promised myself in the start of each semester that I would sit on the first row on every class, only to end up on the last, sharing books and not paying attention. I printed out presentation slides only to left them at home and doodle them with highlighter three days before the exam. I write the same to-do list on different Post-It notes and attaching them to any book I bring and basically forget them five minutes afterward.