JAZZ has officially been conquered by yours truely!

Alright- i couldn't let this exciting/ relieving day go by without a quick post to share my happiness. So i've been taking this Jazz in America class online this semester...specifically MUS 347, for an upper division general credit. I'm not going to lie, i took it thinking it would be a piece of cake- a non-stressor class if you will. Well, it turned out to be just the opposite. All the lectures are audio which mean hours and hours of listening to this boring guy talk while you sit at the computer and take pages and pages of notes on facts and different sounds clips of jazz artists that he inserts. So the tests come along- which are online as well obviously and you're thinking "no problem, i've got my notes on a word document (searchable) and i've got my sound clips accessible. Needless to say, those confident assumptions were wrong as well. THE TESTS WERE REDICULOUS! More than half the test was listening to sound clips and identifying which time period they were from, who and/ or what they were playing/ or who is most likely not to be, etc. Oh and the tests are timed- 50 min for 50 questions. Needless to say, my test scores had an extremely terrible downward sloping trend and i had scored worse on two of the three tests than i have in my college/ high school career. I was a little scared! BUT great news of the day! I pulled a B in the class! With some extra credit, massive studying, and another person (aka another brain) to help...we all survived! Moral of the story: work hard until the very end...don't give up...just never take that kind of class EVER AGAIN!

Smiles all around! Finals are almost over :)