I don't have the papers in my sweaty little hands, but I finally received the authoritative confirmation that I have satisfied all the requirements to graduate from McGill University with a B. Mus. (Music Theory, Honours ) and a B. Sc. (Mathematics, Honours ( Read more... )

It's panic time in Finn's little world. I wish I could get things done in the time I allocate to them - study schedules only make you feel more guilty when you have to break them over and over.

I don't like deadlines, and I don't like deadline pile-ups. I hope there aren't any casualties in this collision of course work.

Finn

As it is the time for academically motivated sleep depravation, my body has started to show the wear by letting me do something magical: sing low A, as in low low A, as in 110 Hz. Though this new found power to sing bass is due to some illness inflaming my vocal folds, I am totally rocking as the coolest soprano ever.

Finn

Having just seen Persepolis, I can't help but wonder, on average, how many generations (in any region) over the last thousand years lived and died in the society they learned to expect as a child ( Read more... )

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I think I've be come distressingly forward in my classes. After much time of acting like I know what I am doing in other parts of life, it's hard to scale back and treat teachers deferentially. Sure, I respect their experience and knowledge, but that doesn't mean I will sit there passively if they answer a question incompletely or wrong. And if I ( Read more... )

I have to do a presentation for my 20th century music analysis class. I am always on a mission to validate music outside of the usual canon, and I want a reason to make my class look at spectrographs (usually presented as colour indicated intensity maps of the frequency spectrum over time) instead of scores. So what can I do that will make full and ( Read more... )

I've found a new internet vice: Degrassi High:TNG ( Read more... )

Reading the last update from crankybear, I realised that focusing on the process is likely something I too should remember ( Read more... )

CBC Archives has put together a media collection of the contraceptive pill, and item I listen to or watch disturbs me greatly. Did we really get here through the patronising kindness of male scientists? Is this deference in females, reporters and reported, still around and I've just not noticed ( Read more... )