Ah, more memories from college

Ok, this was basically a joke some friends and I put on the bulletin board in our music department when I was in college. The sad thing was how true it really was. This is how most music majors acted.

HOW A WLSC MUSIC MAJOR PRACTICES
(AT LEAST WHEN I WAS THERE)

1. Sit in your favorite practice room with your instrument, music, a freshly sharpened pencil, and a glass of water.
2. Check your mailbox.
3. Look over music to make sure you understand everything.
4. Walk down to the lounge to get a candy bar from the vending machine.
5. Check the clock.
6. Walk down the hall to another practice room to visit a friend. If they haven’t started practicing, suggest a walk to the union for a snack. If they have started practicing, (and sound better than you) stand out side their practice room and make fun of them: “I can’t believe he/she is practicing scales!”
7. Go back to your practice room and sit down with your instrument, music, pencil, and glass of fresh water.
8. Look over your music again to make double sure you understand everything.
9. Check the clock. Exclaim, “I’ve already been here 35 minutes and I haven’t started practicing yet!”
10. Since you haven’t been in the lounge for 10 minutes, perhaps someone new has shown up. Go Check.
11. Walk a lap around the department looking for new people.
12. Walk around a couple more times making sure to stop at your locker in case you forgot anything.
13. Check the clock.
14. Rearrange all your music in Chronological order (or Alphabetical, or by composer.)
15. Walk down the hall to your friend’s practice room, again. Exchange derogatory remarks about your teacher, your lessons, the dept., the college, the world at large.
16. Sit in your favorite practice room with your instrument, music, a freshly sharpened pencil, and a glass of water.
17. Go to the lounge vending machine to get a Mountain Dew. Be highly upset when it is sold out. Say, “Now I have to go to the union!!”
18. Check the clock. Realize you have been in the dept for an hour and a half and haven’t started practicing.
19. Check the bulletin board to make certain you’ve read anything worthwhile at least 2 or 3 times.
20. Go look for someone to unlock the copy room because you have to make your jury copies.
21. While in the office use the phone to dial M-E-A-L to find out what’s for dinner the next day.
22. Check the clock.
23. Go through all the old magazines in the lounge. Make sure no one has brought over any new food.
24. Sit down and do some serious thinking on when you might plan to graduate.
25. Go find 2 or 3 other people to sing Broadway songs with.
26. Check the clock. Be dismayed to find out it’s already 9:30pm
27. Sit in your favorite practice room with your instrument, music, a freshly sharpened pencil, and a glass of water.
28. Be all surprised when Bob (or Carol) knocks on the door says, “It’s time to lock up.”
29. Lie face down on the floor and beg, “Just 5 more minutes, please! I need to go over this piece!”
30. Repeat this process over the whole semester (Except Thursday night, of course.)
31. Only honestly practice the half hour before your lesson.
32. Complain to everyone the day after Thanksgiving break that you didn’t get enough practice time this semester and proceed to cram for your jury for the next 2 weeks.


Also- DAVE REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY-GO DAVE!!!!!!!!!!!

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