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here’s a quick guide on how i proofread and edit my essays as an humanities undergrad! i tend to spend more time on research and editing and much less time on writing and my first drafts are often horrendous, so editing is really important for me :^)
i’ve also created guides on essay preparation, the 5-paragraph essay, how to research, and how to write essays. you can find all my other masterposts here.
transcript below:
Some late night research, it’s that kind of day.
09.07.20 | i really liked these pens my friend had, but neither of us knew what brand they were since the label wasn't in english. as a surprise, last week he gave me one!! it writes like a dream, but i need better paper. (an excuse to buy a new notebook? no, no, i would never!!)
ft. some frantic thesis preparation notes
Thank God for Musipedia! If you’re useless like me, and you just remember the melodies but NOT the names of classical pieces, this blessed site has got you covered!!
I spent ages trying to place this melody that was stuck in my brain… And it only took some quick crappy notation to get my answer:
(Of course it was Fauré - a bit embarrassing; I’m a flautist, I should’ve remembered this one…)
“Budgeting completely changed my life. Here's the budget template I've been refining for the past two years.”
Hey all, long-time lurker here, first time poster. I want to share a budget template with the community that I’ve been iterating on for the past two years. Budgeting has completely changed how I perceive my income, expenses, and savings, and I can’t imagine where I’d be today without it. I hope this template can help others out there who are looking to get a better understanding of their finances or don’t know quite where to start.
Background
Before jumping into the template, I just want to give a little background on myself. For years I always thought myself as decent with my money. I never found myself too deep into debt, saved a little here and there, and always managed to get by without too much worrying. Well, that was all fine until I ran into an unexpected financial hardship. Suddenly, budgeting became not just a smart thing to do but imperative.
Looking back, I wish I’d started budgeting sooner. I really didn’t realize how little I knew about where my money was going until I started visualizing it. And that’s exactly how this budget came to be.
Purpose
This template was made with the following goals:
1) Clearly visualize the breakdown of income, expenses, and savings
2) Automatically update when revising expenses, income, or savings amounts
3) Not rely on third-party financial tools which collect sensitive personal data
Who this is for
This template is best used for someone who isn’t actively paying down debt. Of course, if you’re in debt, you want to pay that down ASAP before putting money elsewhere. This template is about finding a balance in your take-home pay, and how to split it between an emergency fund, short-term savings, long-term savings, daily spending, and of course expenses.
Account Definitions
Daily Spending – a checking account for any daily spending. This is what you use to buy a breakfast burrito or grab a drink with a friend.
Expenses – a dedicated checking account for expenses. Phone bill, internet, rent, etc. all automatically deducts from here.
Emergency Fund – a savings account which holds cash for between 3-6 months of expenses, just in case. Once this gets to a level you’re comfortable with, you can stop or reduce the amount you regularly deposit.
Short Term Savings - a savings account for short-term savings. This can be defined however you want, but I think of it as money I’ll spend in less than five years. This could be for a vacation or a big expense like a new computer.
Long-Term Savings - an investment account for money you won’t want to withdraw for probably over 5-10 years. This is for something big, like a down payment on a house or just a place to invest in the long-run. You don’t think about this money, and it’s at the mercy of the market.
The Template
Here’s the template.
It’s pre-filled with what an example budget might look like.
How to use
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«musicians don’t do sports!» «playing should hurt a little!»
wrong!
for the longest time i built my identity around being a musician and thus not sporty. some bad experiences from physical education at school obviously had an effect on my attitude as well, and being able to skip sports (and being the last to be picked for a team) to practise for some performance was just the coolest thing.
at least when i was younger, exercising was something no music teacher ever mentioned. i had my first bout of back pain before i was 13 years old, and my teacher didn’t say anything. my mum used to be a fysiotherapist so off to a series of massages i went. luckily it helped!
at the time musicians didn’t really speak of what they were doing to stay fit for playing, and i thought for the longest time that a little bit of pain and a lot of ibuprofen are just inevitable parts of being a musician. in fact i just laughed about the pain i experienced in my back, neck, shoulders, arms and jaw. i even felt that somehow it was cool! i must have practised so much to be so in pain, and it felt amazing.
it was only when i started university that i realised that pain is not something you should be proud of, and definitely not something you should have. we, as musicians, need our bodies to function normally. our bodies are our most important tool, yes, before our crazy expensive instruments, our bodies are the thing we need to pay attention to. musicians need to exercise, in fact every human being needs to, but for us it is ever more important.
i’m lucky to study at a school that offers pilates, yoga and reduced rates at a good gym. i do all of those, mostly gym, because i quite enjoy it. find a sport you like and just do it. make it regular. no matter how busy you are practising, you can definitely find 3–5 hours a week for exercising. take the stairs, eat and sleep well, and work on your posture.
pain and playing do not go together. sure, sometimes some positions feel awkward and a little uncomfortable, but there should never ever be pain. if it hurts, change something. maybe you’re doing everything perfectly by the book and exactly the way your teacher told you to, but if it hurts, it’s not the right way for your body.
if you get any pain while playing, just stop. take a break, and if it doesn’t go away, don’t practise that day. if the same pain persists, see a fysiotherapist, see a doctor, see whoever you need to see (and tell your teacher about it!). it’s so, so important to do something about the pain you’re experiencing, ideally as soon as you start having it.
if you don’t treat your body, you will not be able to play in the future. say you have pain in your left arm when you practise. maybe you’ll be able to keep going for another month, another year or another decade, but eventually it will get to you and it could ruin your physique in such a way that you cannot ever play again.
take pain seriously. playing should never hurt.
20/7/2020
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Recommended books (from A to Z)
A: The Awakening, Kate Chopin B: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath C: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky D: Don Juan, Lord Byron E: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury G: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy H: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers I: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison J: The Joy of Reading, Charles Van Doren K: King Lear, William Shakespeare L: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill M: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov N: Native Son, Richard Wright O: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham P: The Persian Wars, Herodotus Q: The Quiet American, Graham Greene R: The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham S: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes T: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith U: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera V: The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald W: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte X: Autobiography of Malcolm X Y: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Z: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic
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yknow theres a lot of pressure to be successful, particularly on artsy kids whose professions are seen as useless unless theyre famous, but life is fucking hard and sometimes things dont turn out
but i think thats not bad. my dad has wanted to be a musician forever, and hes rly pretty good. but then he joined the military to get away from an abusive family, and then he got married, and then he got divorced, and a lot of horrible shit HAPPENED. he has ptsd and severe anxiety and he could never really get back on the horse. and he never made it as a musician, and now hes 53
but i grew up in a house full of instruments, and he can play all of them, and some of my earliest memories are of him playing guitar on the front porch and me thinking there wasnt a better musician in the world. so. even if you dont get to the stars, exactly, what you do isnt worthless. its not a waste of time if life is difficult and you cant make it, or if you arent famous, or if your work doesn’t influence thousands of people. it will influence someone
there are a million ways to be happy and a million ways to be a successful artist. we create what we do to enhance the human experience and relate to each other and improve ourselves. theres something to be said for just doing that,,,for the sake of doing it, yknow
This is the most comforting, warm and important piece of text I have ever read, and it is so true. No life is wasted that is spent sharing and loving.
My mother never became a professional artist. She became a social worker, then later taught emotionally disturbed children. But our home was filled with photographs of wildflowers and wildlife. Spice racks, shelves, and other useful objects were adorned with small paintings. She taught me and my sister that we could make things beautiful, even if in small ways, and let us glue glitter and fake gems on our cheap kids furniture and make it ours. Capitalism tries to say that art isn’t successful unless it makes money. But that’s not why humans make art. We make art to convey emotion. To make an object or a moment or a story OURS. And making someone smile when they hear you sing, or look at something you made for them is as valid a reason for creating as any other.
Writing in the morning and reading in the afternoon has made me feel so productive lately!
Director: We don’t want [the solo] to sound like an ‘oops’
1st Trumpet: But that’s what all my solos sound like
a short guide to productivity
make a couple responsibility lists, one for school, one for work, one for day to day and any other such commitments you might have
Then mark each responsibility on a scale from one to three on importance/priority
So the next time you feel you have so much to do, you’re getting overwhelmed, look back at this list and start working on the number 3s in priority then complete the number 2s and then number 1s
bonus: When going about your day, arrange it so that for every 2-3 activities you do that will benefit you in the long run, do one activity that will benefit your short term e.g. work on 2 assignments, go for a run then you reward yourself by watching an episode on netflix
not so much study tips, more thoughts on university/studying in general
although these posts are abundant, i like to have my own collection of study tips/uni thoughts
- i’ve been viewing my studies as an office job, mostly because of the 9 to 5 mentality. i am not one for night studying, i have tried and tried and felt guilty when i heard others talk about their late night study sessions, but it is just not for me. which is fine, because with this 9 to 5 idea i have created working days for myself and i can use my evenings for extracurriculars, books, friends, netflix
- the train has (weirdly) become one of my favourite study spots. of course this really depends on the public transport you use. i am on a train for two hours a day, no transfer, and i either go to a silent area (have not yet seen this elsewhere, but dutch trains have carriages in which there is complete silence) or i put in my earpods. i love this because when i come home, i have already done so much work, e.g. organized my lecture notes of that day, inserted my professor’s comments into my paper etcetera
- although i’ve also learned to recognize when i am just done. sometimes i have had enough and it is way better to accept that and then i either listen to some music and stare at the passing landscape, or i watch an episode of the crown. when feeling exhausted, there’s no point in pushing and forcing yourself
- this goes for many many aspects: comparison will kill you. it is often still my tendency to compare myself to others on all levels - grades, kindness, clothing, weight, work ethic - but i make the effort to not ‘indulge’ in it. what my therapist told me has really helped: just notice that the urge to compare is there but then leave it be. like it’s a tiny spider crawling on your leg; you don’t have to do something with it
- on the topic of work ethic: don’t listen to your fellow students. don’t listen to what some wonderful academic says (online). don’t even listen to what your professors say regarding study hours. it has often made me feel very uncertain, but i think it is way better to figure it out yourself. to build up a feeling of trust towards yourself, so you can really start to notice, to feel, when you have done enough. that is something only you should be able to judge and not some external source
- sometimes i get overwhelmed with this sensation that i have not done enough, that i am lazy and have accomplished nothing. however, every (every!) time i have noticed this to be untrue. so perhaps i have not studied every chapter, but i have studied other chapters. i found the cliché of looking at what you have done to really be true. it helps me put things into perspective, i think we can really underestimate ourselves in how much work we have done. what you consider to be 20% may actually be 60%
- motivating internal monologues are completely normal and actually very good! give yourself that motivating speech, it’s like a snow track that becomes deeper and clearer everytime you repeat it
it helps me to look back on these at times, has been in my concepts for a while now (like some kind of motivating internal monologue) but i want this to have a place on my actual blog, because i believe tips like these (less focused on studying and more on coping with the whole world of studying/academia) are important as well
These are… rlly good
Is it ok to mock teenagers for bad/mediocre writing & artwork?
Good. Then stop disparaging yourself for stuff you created in the past. You were and still are growing.
Wow you’re really gonna trap me like that, huh?
Self Love Is Not A Choice It Is A Gift I Shall Force Upon You
MUSIC RESOURCES GALORE
So I get a TON of requests for stuff like ear training apps and sheet music sites and music history help. So here is a GREAT BIG LIST of resources for the average music major to use as they need! I tried to find free stuff when I could - some of the apps might cost a couple dollars, but that’s all. Everything has been recommended by one of you, or vetted by me! This is cross-posted to my Resources page, too!
First seen on HowToMusicMajor.com
Composition
MUSESCORE
Noteflight
Finale free trial
Recording
Reaper DAW free download
Audacity free download
Sheet music
IMSLP - general music archive
CPDL - vocal/choral music archive
Academic help
Oxford Music Online/Grove Music encyclopedia - your university might give you access to this
Musictheory.net
Teoria.com
Hooktheory.com
Music Theory Made Stupidly Easy
Earmaster.com
Music History overview
Another Overview
Apps
Tuners
PanoTuner (Android version)
Tonal Energy Tuner
Clear Tune (Android version)
Ear Training/Theory
Clapping Music for iOS
Perfect Ear 2 for Android
Tenuto for iOS
iReal Pro
Music Theory Helper for Android
SoundPrism for iOS
Score Master (Lite) for Android
Sheet Music Master for iOS
Metronomes
ProMetronome (Android version)
Etc.
Ultimate Guitar
Voice Recorder for Android (iOS comes with one)
Blogs
Tumblr
Dailypracticetips
Musictheorydiscussions
Sonateharder
Wecappiam
Soyouwanttobeamusicmajor
Other
Majoringinmusic.com
Learn an instrument
Piano
Practisingthepiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV (on YouTube)
InstantPianoGenuis
Saxophone
CdotSik
Johnny Fiera
Flute
Mr. Selfridge
LearnFluteOnline.com
Flutetunes.com
Piccolo
Nancy Elizabeth
Oboe
Michele Fiala E-Oboe Lessons
InstrumentManiac
Clarinet
Mr. Selfridge
How to clean it!
Bassoon
Gustavo Núñez
Terry Ewell
Horn
Barry Tuckwell
ExpertVillage
Trumpet
eTrumpet Lessons
How To Play Trumpet
Trombone
Mr. Glynn
Chris Bill
Violin
MakeLoveWithMusic
Online Piano and Violin Tutor
Viola
The String Club
Cindy Orcutt
Cello
Queixoso
Sarah Joy
Bass
Discover Double Bass
Andrew Anderson
Drum kit
Drumeo
Vic Firth
Timpani
Vic Firth
Snare
Huestis Music
Guitar
YGS Guitar Lessons
Guitarlessons.com
Guitar.about.com
Bass guitar
TalkingBass
MusicCollegeTV
I hope some of these can come in handy for you!
Thanks to the following for submitting something for this list!
@mem1846, @obsessivetenor84, @akaristudies, @rhysman4000, @howdoijennifer, @singingsimblr, @akajonesinvestigations, @perc-lobo, @1playthetuba, @mastersanddreamers, @tangerineing, @thepolyglotmusician, @akaristudies, @littlebanddirector, @hollaatmahler, @thehumblebard
tuesday, april 7 2020;
if you could go anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go?
i miss edinburgh, my favorite coffee shop, good tea, and warm pastries
Spending my days between the pages of book, my bullet journal and coffee in hand ♡
