Author: EEBaum
Date: 2010-08-03 16:00
kimber:
I don't buy that about computer screening of resumes. Highly speculative. I'm not saying that it won't happen, but I'd hardly use "someone might program a resume screening computer badly" as a reason to choose one degree over another.
suavkue:
In my humble opinion, drop the honors program. Unless you find it providing you something really personally fulfilling, honors programs mean nothing in college. A PhD, that's an honors program. Or a harder major, or an awesome minor. Graduate with a BS in an honors program, and you have a BS and a pretty ribbon. Nobody but Aunt Mildred will be interested in the ribbon, and they'll only be passingly interested in the BS compared to what you learned from it.
If you're going into any music and you have even the slightest bit of "because it'll get me a job" in your head, purge that thought immediately. Music is something to go into because you can't not do it. Granted, you might find out that that's the case along the way.
It's easier to get a job in musicology/theory than in performance. Colleges will always have a handful of musicology and theory professors.
A music minor might not be a bad course of action. I started that way, and got so deep into it that I found myself compelled to upgrade it to a major later on.
Really, I'd spend my first year or so of college keeping my options as open as possible and taking the widest variety of classes possible. You might find another major that you like even more and had never even considered. College isn't a race, and I've known far too many people who were very high achievers (valedictorians, etc) and went through college with a singular goal, aiming for some major they'd been aspiring to since middle school, discovering after graduating that they hated it, and making a complete switch to a different career. Stressed-out biochemist at a top university, now a well-adjusted accountant. Chemistry and physics whiz with sights set on setting foot on Mars, now teaching high school. Microbiologist looking for a cure for TB, now a counselor. Computer scientist at the top of his class, now leading guerilla musical expeditions in urban settings and selling t-shirts at Clarinetfest. OK, that last fool took his time.
It will all likely be very different than you expect. For a music major especially, the requirements tend to feel like "oh yeah, I also take some of these classes while I'm here."
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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