I’ve been neglecting this blog the past few weeks. I’m sorry! I got so busy so fast – this semester has really sped up since we hit the midway point, when all the midterms, projects, paper proposals are due all in the same week. But I’d be lying if I said it was all work. Phi Sig, the lecture society…
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WELCOME 2020! (Also, come to spring open campus!)
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Red Class of 2020! We are so excited to have you! We are so excited to have all of the person that is you, even the bits that can’t be put onto paper. If this is not the case, it is not a reflection on the core of everything you are. You are still accomplished…
South Station, sentimentality, and sunsets
Greetings from an Amtrak train car currently waiting to depart South Station…spring break is finally here! I already feel like there’s a weight off my mind, although now that I don’t have quite so much work to think about I’m starting to realize how tired I really am. I really love my train rides home. Some people get sentimental on…
Boston and Beta Galactosidase
It’s been a particularly eventful Friday at the end of a long week. I just got back from Boston, volunteering with an El Sistema program as part the final project for my Ethnomusicology class. As I mentioned the other week, El Sistema is a Venezuelan-born music education movement that aims to use power of playing in an orchestra to shape…
Musical breakthroughs
One of my favorite moments is the getting a new piece on the violin. It’s a feeling of giddiness I can’t describe. I have such a long “bucket list” of pieces I want to play that each time I get the chance to play another one of my favorites, I can’t help but get excited. Sure, some of it comes…