Another year has come and gone. I know I've said this countless times before but so much has changed. For starters, I have officially finished my first year of graduate school, successfully I might add. It is somewhat scary to acknowledge but I think that I made the right career change, taking the musicology path. I feel like this is where I should be. It is a lot of hard work and constantly stress-filled but I have never enjoyed the learning process more than I do now.
It is my hope that after two years I will be pursuing a PhD in musicology somewhere out of the state. Before this however, I would like to spend some time doing research somewhere in Europe (or maybe even doing volunteer work; I haven't decided).
This past semester I was finally able to delve into the art of music criticism and journalism. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and am finding myself also considering a career as a music journalist (in addition to being a university professor).
It has been a goal of mine for a while to start posting reviews of anything I hear and/or see here on my blog to "get my feet wet." Or maybe to have an another blog dedicated to just my music reviews. That might be better and less confusing.
This summer will be devoted to my pursuit of a master's thesis topic. I have so many ideas in mind that if I don't make an official decision by the end of this summer, I might have to pick a topic out of a hat or something.
One year down, another year and a half to go!
