<p>crazyforu
As it happens my daughter is a Teaching Assistant at Wash U in the musicology department.She is persuing the PhD in musicology after being a performance major in flute her first two years of college and discovering she loved music history and research and desired to remain in an academic setting rather than a performing setting.She had much mentoring from the music faculty at her undergrad college to determine if a college teaching career was right for her and how to go about gaining entry to a well regarded PhD program.Teaching college is very different from teaching elementary or high school students.You have to want an academic life and enjoy research as much as teaching.
You might just be in one of her classes next year! when you begin classes there, come back and PM me and I’ll give you her name.</p>