So it is official I am transferring. I was miserable at ISU. I just had a rough year. I had run a rounds with housing, food people, and students. Overall I have decided it is a very good school, just not the school for me. The music faculty were great! We were a little music family. But all in all I wasn't happy. So how did I get to the idea of SVU? Well my friend wants to attend their eventually, and it is a ton closer to home(By 26 hours!) so I just considered it. I wasn't really looking to transfer, I was trying to make the best of my situation out in Idaho. But there music program looked like what I needed.
To understand this you have to understand my neck. This week I started physical therapy. In PT he found that I have three vertabrae that just don't move. The are locked/frozen in this weird place. Thus causing mild swelling around my nerve roots. Now how no one saw that on my MRI is beyond me, but I believe him. I think he is right because when he can get them to separate for the 30 seconds he pulls on my head/neck my arm/neck/shoulder feel amazing. There is no tingling there is no pain. Ok the point of this, this was caused by viola. How I don't know. But it is the second time and this one is much worse. So basically this week I was told to limit viola and basically it really isn't the best for me to be playing. -hard to hear as a music major
Ok so how does this apply to SVU? Well their music program is much more condensed. They have half the lessons I would have to take at ISU. My orchestra credits are done. I only have like 8 classes left to finish just a normal music person degree. This will be so much better for my neck. Now yes I am giving up learning so much. But I do t know if I could physically do it. So I am excited to still be able to get my music degree and be able to save my neck.
Ok so now if you know me you are wondering why normal music degree, you were music ed. You are right! I was music ed. So I have started taking biology for the summer. I have remembered how much I love biology how much biology comes naturally to me. I like it and it likes me. I have always been fasinated by cancer. I think it is cool not sad. I know I have a messed up mind. I love to learn about it. So I started looking at programs at SVU and they have an amazing amazing amazing pre med program. So yes I am officially nuts but want to be a pediatric oncologist. Why? Well even being a music teacher I am going to have to play my instrument at least a little, and most supplement their income by teaching lessons. I can't play I really shouldn't be playing. It was a hard thing to grasp. I love viola. I love teaching music, but maybe this isn't what I should be doing. Anyways so now I have started my med school prerequisites. CRAZINESS!!! It is like 13 sciences classes plus statistics, and an mcat class. SVU has tutoring sessions your jounior year for the mcat weekly with all of the science faculty. The semester before they have a whole class. They have mission trips to Ecuador and the Dominican Republic where they teach you medical Spanish. They have spots in the free SVU clinic to train us and let us volunteer. I am so excited. So yes I am very,very busy for the next 12 years. ;)
So how is Jacquet?
She is a little cat, and a very cute one.
This week she has calmed down a little bit. She actually was a lap cat and would cuddle with my feet when I studied biology. She is becoming more vocal. Meow now means who knows what. Cuddle with me, feed me, pet me, give me water. I don't know! She still has her crazy momements. Yesterday she ran like a flying white bullet around upstairs. She is so cute! She knows who mom is. She will come up to me and purr against my feet. If I can't find her she is on my bed. The one I like the most she comes when I call her and pat my thigh-is she part dog?
