Two Rant Blogs in a Row...People Need to Stop Fuelling the Fire!

So, as most know, I pretty much hate being a music major, not to say that I don't like playing bassoon. Actually, I rather enjoy playing and, if I do say so myself, I can be pretty damn good. That said, I have decided that music is not what I want to make my career. Ahhh, but Townsend Plant and his music school cronies have other plans for me...

When I was accepted to IC I was given the "Premiere Talent Award," given to a few students who audition and don't suck. The scholarship is $13,000, and at Ithaca, aka "Really Fucking Expensive Not At All Worth It School," that is a shit-ton. Without it, I cannot afford the school, given already having $70,000 in loans, and I am but a sophomore. So, when I told the school that what I wanted to do was no longer music, of course I knew that there would be some opposition and that it would take some finegaling to be able to keep my scholarship. I did not know, however, that it would become the biggest hassle ever.

So, a while ago, I began the process of asking, begging, and pleading to the point of sexual favors with the music school to let me change. Last semester was one of the worst periods of my life and I never want to have to go through that again. I even told them that. I explained that I was miserable in the music school, that my life was hell, and that I disliked it so intensely that I had begun to just stop doing the work I needed to do, purely out of hatred for the subject matter. Apparently at IC, however, this does not matter, for IC cares not about how their students feel and what they want, but rather, how they look. All they have to do is change my scholarship type so that I can do what I want or let me stay on as a music minor and do it that way. That is all I ask of school. You'd think that a college would know that not every student has made up their mind about the rest of their life when they first set foot on campus.

Regardless of all of this, next semester I am taking only classes that I absolutely must take to keep my scholarship, which includes pretty much just theory and bassoon lessons, and ignoring the rest of my responsibility to the music school. Because I have been in London, I am allowed that for one semester while I figure out this messy financial situation. At least I am still getting to take classes that I want, for the most part, and will hopefully get this all worked out so that I can leave IC with my writing and my politics and my lime jello (please attempt to imagine this sentence in a Bill Cosby voice...for some reason it just felt that way in my head). I apologize for these not so happy blogs of late. Hopefully, soon, something really good will happen and then I will share it with you, my beloved readers. Until then, would someone please put a bomb in a coffee can, addressed to:

Ithaca College School of Music
Attn: Townsend Plant
956 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

If you mail it UPS it will be just fine...they'll send anything. To whoever does this, I offer not only my eternal gratitude but the promise of sexual favors, free for a month but discounted for life.