I pay the international tuition at QC, which means I pay per credit for everything, no matter how many credits I take. I believe it’s somewhere around 500 dollars per credit, making each 3 credit class $1500 for the semester. If the class meets once a week, it comes out to about $100 per class. If the class meets twice a week, it comes out to $50 per class. If three times, $33. And my classmates ask me why I’m so serious about being in class and doing well. Pfft.

I am taking a ridiculous amount of credits this semester. It just so ended up being that both my majors, Linguistics and Music Performance, decided to offer classes, that are only offered once every two years, in this current semester. YUCK. I went to my voice lesson at the end of the week (I have 6 classes on Fridays, my last one being a voice lesson), and realized how unprepared I was for it. I had none of my music learned, and when I looked back at my week, I couldn’t remember an instance when I wasn’t working on schoolwork. So… if I weren’t screwing around and blowing off schoolwork, why was my music not learned?

I finished my stressful lesson (not because of the teacher, but because of my self-evaluation), and thought to myself, “I just wasted $100 dollars.” I did learn something, but I wish I had learned it better so I was not struggling to get through the piece, and I could get vocal coachings on the material.

Next week will have to be better. I can’t be 100%, or not even 90% on everything all the time. Taken the numerous amounts of work I topple onto myself, it’s ok. I’m not perfect. And I will never be. I will just have to be satisfied with the fact that I do my best. What more can I ask?