This time, unlike the previous installment, I’m not giving a long complicated lecture about how one should manage their time wisely to prevent wasting their precious years of high school on retarded things like taking Cornell notes in math classes. Rather, this time I’m going to muse about my own time management skills and what it means for my main hobby as the new school year approaches.
Of course, the “main hobby” that I refer to would be Sekai no Melody. As I was walking along the Activities Midway yesterday, I spotted quite a few singing groups (some of which I will be auditioning for quite soon), including one called Syncopasia, which focuses on singing Asian pop songs. I was immediately hooked, but as I thought about my own singing group I was again filled with that disgusting pit-of-your-stomach, queasy feeling that makes you really wonder if you can stand all the stuff that is coming up.
I love SnM a lot - I really do. It’s my brainchild and my joy in life. I could never imagine giving it up, but I also know that I’ll have to be cutting back on a lot of my involvement with the project if I’m going to pass college successfully. Thus, what I plan to do is to drop singing altogether and instead just stand as a director and producer, instructing the mixers/singers/etc. on what to do and passing files back and forth between parties to make sure everything gets released when it’s supposed to be and such. Hopefully with a more modular form of organization everything will run just as smoothly without too much work on my part.. x_x
In truth, what I’d love to do is move Sekai no Melody into the real world by creating an MIT-branch of it. Essentially, I’d be making another subgroup that is purely real-life and would release under the Sekai no Melody “label”. It would have to have an amazing name, though. Like Misonix. (Well, it -does- sound like “MIT-sonics”…) I really don’t know how to go about doing that, though, and I for some reason am doubting that people will actually join… but it’s well worth a try, right? I’ll just market it as an international singing organization, just like Sekai no Melody, but I would try to push for more diverse song selection since it’s such a diverse student population =) Perhaps once I’m settled in and I get some people who are interested in joining such a group, I can apply for it to be an official ASA (Association of Student Activities) group so it gets more publicity =D
And of course that means revamping the website so that it also appeals to the MIT branch, includes them in the mix, and makes everything a lot more formal and professional. Hmm. We’ll see how much interest I can generate.
As I type this entry, I look back at the one I just published earlier today and shake my head at the number of groups that I’m hoping to join. Surely I need to cut down on the extracurricular or else I’m not going to have time to do all those p-sets! Without further ado, the groups that I am hoping to join:
1. WMBR (MIT’s radio station)
I’m really hoping I can host my own show on WMBR. I’d probably just play a lot of electronica music because from what I see on the sample program guide from spring 2008, I can’t see any programs that focus specifically on dance, trance, techno, ambient, psychedelic, etc. I have quite the stash and can always get more too, so I’m totally up for it if they will let me; they seemed pretty enthusiastic during the Midway when I told them I was interested in hosting, so we’ll see how open house goes…
2. Syncopasian (Asian a cappella group)
Does this even need any more explanation? It’s an a cappella group, it sings Asian songs (Jap/Kor/Chin), and the talent level isn’t impossible to reach. The only bad thing is that I can’t seem to find any website or anything related to it, so I can’t get any additional information =/
3. MITSO (symphony orchestra)
I’m not even confident that I will be able to make the auditions, but there’s no harm in trying, and if I get in I would practice so often it won’t even be funny, haha. But yeah; I’ve always been playing solo my entire life and haven’t really enjoyed it - there aren’t many orchestras around my hometown for beginner players (unless you learned in school, but my district didn’t offer orchestra as a class), so even though I was really enthusiastic about joining one, I could never do so due to the experience and skill level of the general group(s)… which is why I’m a bit on edge about auditioning for MITSO because these are pretty much the best of the best, and I don’t quite belong, but hopefully my perseverance and optimism strikes the right chord with the directors…?
4. Concert Choir OR an a cappella group
If I’m accepted to more than one, I think I’ll just decline joining others, though I kind of doubt that. My Muses audition went terribly since I speed-pedaled all the way there and didn’t have any time to catch my breath or warm up before singing, and my sightreading skills suck like whoa. Hopefully my Chorallaries aud goes better, but I’m kind of doubting that. I’m crossing my fingers that I’m assigned a second soprano or alto part for the Concert Choir auditions because I can do some good harmonies if they’re in my range =P
5. DanceTroupe OR Movements in Time
Mmm, dance. I needed some sort of dance to fill the empty hole that leaving Chinese folk dance put into my soul, but there are so many dance teams on campus it’s kind of hard to pick one. I narrowed it down to DanceTroupe and Movements in Time (which I just noticed today is a reverse acronym for “MIT”), but not sure which I would prefer working with. I’ll just go explore both before choosing, I guess.
