March 22, 2007
I have some unfortunate news to report - I unexpectedly received a letter from Eastman telling me that I was not accepted into the grad cello program. It came as quite a shock, as I was expecting to see some sort of paperwork related request or other problem when I opened the disturbingly thin letter that I found in the mailbox on an otherwise uneventful Sunday morning.
Sooooooo. After more than a year of my life spent preparing for both this and last years auditions, as might be expected, I am still in shock over the whole thing, and have been doing some serious thinking about my future endeavors. The options that remain to me at this point are A. Attend University of Colorado Boulder, which is almost definitely not going to happen, since I wasn't all that impressed with the school, it's expensive, and it has a reputation of being a huge party school. B. A less likely option - save myself $45,000+ in grad school costs, and pursue other facets of my life, ie climbing, that have had some very promising developments in the recent past. Or pursue something completely different. Who knows
I definitely haven't made up my mind as to where I am going to be and what I am going to be doin after this coming summer up in Juneau, but I do know that I won't be attending Eastman next year, and unfortunately, I don't think I can stand putting myself through another year of preparation and auditions for the same program. There is a fine line between dedication/commitment and stubbornness/stupidity, and I think a third year of auditions for the same school would be edging dangerously close to that line, if not crossing it.
So that's it! Thanks for all of your support through this whole process, and take care
Sunday, July 15, 2007
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