<p>madbean … wow. You just hit me right in the forehead. I’ve never seen it put so brilliantly that way.</p>
<p>My D right now has a preferred BFA and a couple of BA options on her short list. She’s keeping her thinking mostly to herself - for some reason she is still strongly considering the BAs, and while I certainly respect them a lot, I wonder why she is so stumped sometimes, beyond the fact that the BFA wasn’t the “premiere” school in the urban setting she’d hoped for. I’ve tried not to pressure her for a decision, but every day I allow myself one comment.</p>
<p>All of her life she has loved to learn - like many of these kids more in the reading, writing, history, vein than in science or math. But every minute that she had discretionary time (even in the classroom), it’s been in the arts. Sports? No, dance and marching band. Painting, drawing, needlework, experimenting with clothes and with makeup. Singing - in every possible genre, in every possible way. Playing 5 instruments, picking up another at a moment’s notice whenever needed. Listening to music, composing music, arranging music, directing music. Writing, writing, writing, so many notebooks we barely have room for them, although I cry for the ones that she chose to toss along the way. And then there’s theatre: Reading plays, watching plays, writing plays, teching for plays, directing plays, being in plays. Reading ABOUT people who do all of those things, watching every documentary ever made about theatre. Memorizing theatre facts and stats on par with any die-hard baseball fan.</p>
<p>Today I know what my one comment will be. I will quote you: “Honey, what about this chance finally to spend your time studying the things you have spent all of your free time doing, all of your life? Do you really want to do anything else?”</p>