Last semester, I was initiated into a women's music fraternity: Sigma Alpha Iota, Eta Omicron chapter!
At 27, I realize this might be seen as "too late" to some people (and to some organizations), but here's what's great about SAI: there's no age discrimination! Plus, I get to become affiliated with great women who, even though they are apart of the music department (in various ways, seems most are non-music majors) who I NEVER see! These ladies are incredible! Throughout my entire MIT process (that's member in training to you), I had many positive encounters with my now sisters who I might not have ever met! To be honest, I was nervous and slightly apprehensive for a few weeks after pledging because it is hard to get to know people you don't already know, but those feelings left the building and my MIT class, although small, was made up of extremely beautiful, talented, caring, and over all, wonderful ladies. There were 6 of us, and two of us were from Chicago! Imagine that! Joining SAI, for me, was destiny.
For the Spring 2014 semester, I volunteered to be a part of the recruitment committee since I will most likely not be able to take on a little this semester. I want a little SO BAD! I know I'd be a great Big! However, patience is a virtue right??? hahaha. I can be patient. I can. I CAN!
I have some really wonderful ideas for recruitment week! Filled with fun activities to bid day ideas and I hope that some of them can be done. Some of my ideas are include things like rose shaped cake pops for one of the initiation days, to fun gifts made from Big's to their new Little's (before the reveal aka pledging!), to a special gift from all the current sisters to the MIT's once they are fully initiated.
I'm ready to be the best sister of SAI that I can be!
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Cheers to a New Year!
Happy New year! In many ways, I can't believe it's already 2014. I couldn't wait for this year to start! 2013 was a hard year for me, yet, extremely rewarding. So with the start of the this brand new year, I have finally accepted who I am in life (I know, in my 27 years, I probably should have accepted myself sooner, but I'm a late bloomer!) and I have set some goals for myself. Not resolutions, I mean, basically everyone gives up on resolutions anyway, right? No, these goals are realistic and actually affect my life as it is going right now!
So here they are:
1. get all C.E's (continuing education credits for those who don't know) finished before my C.PhT certification renewal in Nov. 2014 (I am a certified pharmacy technician)
2. Attend Church EVERY WEEK
3. Read more, challenge my comprehension!
4. Don't die during the spring 2014 semester of graduate school.
5. Be happy.
Number 1 is pretty self explanatory. If you want to see what kinds of C.E's I can get, head on over to powerpak. They are not easy, but most are offered to me for free. I must confess that I am behind where I should be credit wise, but having a national certification for pharmacy technician means I can get a license in any state (and some states require national certification) if I ever have to move from Reno, NV.
Number 2 is also self explanatory. I love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He shows me unconditional love every moment of every day and I personally feel that I have not done my part as a follower of Christ. I desire to continue to learn about his love for me and all humankind and the major way I can step that up is by following through on my commitment to go to church.
Number 3 is a funny one. I love music. I am grateful that I have taken the steps that I needed to take to complete m Master's in Music. It truly is a dream come true, however, in random curiosity mode, I wondered what questions on the LSAT are like. So, I googled some and boy, they are not easy. First of all, how do people do well on this test?? :-) Well, they study and read the questions carefully. I discovered that I am not a careful reader. Ouch! Not something I ever wanted to know! Now that I do know, I want to take steps to change that. So I will challenge myself. I will challenge my reading ability. Young adult novels are incredibly fun, but they are very misleading. I cannot mistake my "comprehension" for young adult novels as true comprehension.
Number 4 is the the first step: Admitting powerlessness. Admitting that I am officially overloaded this semester. Normally, at the University of Nevada, Reno, the graduate students in the music department take ONE graduate seminar a semester. This is a great set up for us. We have ONE class where we write, present projects, discuss readings. They rest of our time is spent in ensemble: for me that is Opera Theater Workshop and Symphonic Choir, and in classes dealing with our instruments on a one-on-one level: Advanced Repertoire coaching and private lessons. Due to the growing size of our graduate program (whoo-hoo!) the graduate music theory professor is offering music theory once a year instead of once every two years. This is great news for me since I was going to have to wait until 2015 to take it. I also have to take graduate music history this semester. This means TWO seminars for me. Oh boy...
Last of all, I just want to be happy. This requires work but, I am capable and I deserve to have happiness in my life.
So here they are:
1. get all C.E's (continuing education credits for those who don't know) finished before my C.PhT certification renewal in Nov. 2014 (I am a certified pharmacy technician)
2. Attend Church EVERY WEEK
3. Read more, challenge my comprehension!
4. Don't die during the spring 2014 semester of graduate school.
5. Be happy.
Number 1 is pretty self explanatory. If you want to see what kinds of C.E's I can get, head on over to powerpak. They are not easy, but most are offered to me for free. I must confess that I am behind where I should be credit wise, but having a national certification for pharmacy technician means I can get a license in any state (and some states require national certification) if I ever have to move from Reno, NV.
Number 2 is also self explanatory. I love my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He shows me unconditional love every moment of every day and I personally feel that I have not done my part as a follower of Christ. I desire to continue to learn about his love for me and all humankind and the major way I can step that up is by following through on my commitment to go to church.
Number 3 is a funny one. I love music. I am grateful that I have taken the steps that I needed to take to complete m Master's in Music. It truly is a dream come true, however, in random curiosity mode, I wondered what questions on the LSAT are like. So, I googled some and boy, they are not easy. First of all, how do people do well on this test?? :-) Well, they study and read the questions carefully. I discovered that I am not a careful reader. Ouch! Not something I ever wanted to know! Now that I do know, I want to take steps to change that. So I will challenge myself. I will challenge my reading ability. Young adult novels are incredibly fun, but they are very misleading. I cannot mistake my "comprehension" for young adult novels as true comprehension.
Number 4 is the the first step: Admitting powerlessness. Admitting that I am officially overloaded this semester. Normally, at the University of Nevada, Reno, the graduate students in the music department take ONE graduate seminar a semester. This is a great set up for us. We have ONE class where we write, present projects, discuss readings. They rest of our time is spent in ensemble: for me that is Opera Theater Workshop and Symphonic Choir, and in classes dealing with our instruments on a one-on-one level: Advanced Repertoire coaching and private lessons. Due to the growing size of our graduate program (whoo-hoo!) the graduate music theory professor is offering music theory once a year instead of once every two years. This is great news for me since I was going to have to wait until 2015 to take it. I also have to take graduate music history this semester. This means TWO seminars for me. Oh boy...
Last of all, I just want to be happy. This requires work but, I am capable and I deserve to have happiness in my life.
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