College.

*joins in on bad metaphors*

So senior year of high school a lot of people are pressured into finding and picking a college. There are tons of colleges. Some are way too good for you. Some are not good enough. So you have to find those that fit. Some people know which one they are going to go to right away. While some people don't know if any will take them and end up at community college or none at all. But generally there is going to be one school that sticks out to you. So you know a little about this college, but you have to do some more research. The more you learn about this college, either you don't like it as much or you find that you love it. Say you find that you really really like it. You know a lot of people who go to that school- a lot of friends, they have a lot that you want. A nice campus, a good marching band and other clubs, decent academics, you know that with a little time you could fit right in. You like this school a lot more than you thought you would and you think that it could make that school (you know the one. The one you found out about early in high school and did more research over the years but you just don't have the right requirements to go there and you wouldn't really fit in but you still love it all the same) seem irrelevant. So you decide to apply to this school, but you're really nervous about it because it's the first place applying so you get your friend (the one who told you about the school) to help you with the application process. The school tells you that you're acceptance is on a "maybe" list. They don't know enough about you yet to know if you are a proper fit for their school. You understand that because they really don't know about you because the application process was so simple. So you decide to give the school more information about you. You will send it in as it becomes relevant and you can do nothing but hope that at one point they will find the information about you good enough to allow you to be accepted into their school.
If you're not accepted, you will probably just go back to that ill-fit school and hope that you find another well matched school that actually accepts you.
Or else you will be stuck with a school that you only applied to because you knew you would get accepted.
Or with a really great school that has everything you like, but that does not have your major.

Bleh

You know how Lortz is always all "You're not good enough to do ____"

Well, I'm not interesting enough to be so mean to people.
I'm such a boring person, and yet I can be such a jerk to my friends.

My Views on Band Seats.

I think it's great.

I think there are tons of people who are placed way way lower than where they belong. It think there are a few people placed higher than they belong.

Clarinet seating in both symphonic and concert band is way off.

Trumpet seating in Symphonic band is bad. I think there are a lot of challenges that need to be, and will be, made there. Katie Learn should not be that low. Neither should Bekka. Those are the really really off ones.

Jackie is second chair trumpet right now. I believe that a few people behind her are better than her. Drake knows. That was not purely based on score, though her score is better than theirs. She surprised Drake with how well she did. Then today, with it behind her first time reading the 1st part, I think she did surprisingly well. I honestly she was going to crap all over it. But she was actually pretty good! She has a much better range that I did when I was a freshman or when I was originally in symphnic band. Her sound is pretty decent. Like I said, there are still people better than her. But I think that being up there, she will quickly get a lot better. Rise to the challenge. Plus the two of us sound pretty good together. Not all trumpet players do. I think I also sound pretty good with Katie. But that's not the point.

Wind Ensemble. Apparently Lortz just happened to forget to explain the trumpet seating. So, I was moved from second to third. I went up to Drake today asking if I could challenge. Drake, with a bit of unbelief, asked if I was challenging Perry. I told him that I wanted to challenge Jacob because he was above me. Drake explained that I did better on the test than Jacob did. I'm second chair. But Jacob is there, because when Perry and I play first together, we sound really, really bad. So, he put Jacob there to play first with Perry becuase they sound good together. Jacob is kinda like an assistant to Perry. Drake basically said Perry gets to boss him around a little. Then, I am on 2nd with Luke because apparently Luke and I sound good together. But Lortz couldn't explain this. That would have made my life too easy.

But yeah. This is how it works. If your test was not so great, that's what happens. If you believe, or likely KNOW you're not where you belong, challenge. Or ask someone to challenge you. I don't know why you would do that. But whatever.

Challenging is really simple. You may be someone who gets really really nervous, but if you practice enough some of the nerves go away.

If you don't like what happened, stop complaining about it and fix it.

Updatee

So I havn't blogged in a while. I don't really have a reason. I just don't have anything to talk about. I've been really unhappy lately. There are a few reasons why and things to talk about there, but I don't like making depressed posts. Especially because when I start writing about why I'm unhappy I either feel stupid or things just get darker and I admit things that I don't admit to people. And it's usually not so fun.

New semester tomorrow.
First mod, AP Biology. I'm really excited for it. Erin V. and Zach G. from band are going to be in my class. That's exciting. :D

Second mod, H. Human Anatomy
I had to drop AP Music Theory for this which I really really really really really hate. Because I LOVE Theory it's so much fun and I love the stuff learned are there are going to be great people in the class and... I really wanna take it. But I need to think of my new non-musical future. Which means taking this class. At least Richard is in it!! :D

The rest of my day is the same as it is now: All band.

The part that sucks? I'm pretty sure Perry is not going to have 3rd lunch next semester. There goes our fail practice sessions. :/

I really don't have anything to say. So I'll go pee.

Oh! I got nutella yesterday. :3