Well, There Is One Exciting Thing…
Since people are pining for posts, here’s one I hadn’t gotten around to yet since I learned of it yesterday.
My 17 year old niece, Brittany, is practically a musical prodigy. She plays four wind instruments fluently and can generally pick those up and figure out how to play them in record time, and is working on guitar and piano, which are more of a challenge to her. She has been planning on going to Berklee, but the guidance people talked her out of it. She wants to be a music teacher, and Berklee is performance oriented.
At the same time, by virtue of being one of the top students in the state, she just won a scholarship for all four years (just tuition, I gather) at any state college or university she wishes to attend. Woohoo!!
Her current plan is to attend my alma mater, Bridgewater State College, which apparently has an excellent music program and is the teaching college. I had no exposure to the music depatment there myself, but I know Journey did a song inspired by/dedicated to one of the music professors there. My great-grandmother also graduated from Bridgewater State College. Then she became a teacher, met this crazy farmer and produce truck driver from Prince Edward Island, and apparently saw something in him sufficient to move her there. But I digress.
Anyway… no tuition… that’s great! While I generally recommend to kids that they go away for college, being easy commuting distance and saving money are good things too.
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