<p>actually, my freshman year I had a wooden oboe case. It was so incredibly weighty!!! I ended up constantly bruising my knees when they knocked against the case. So long as your cases aren’t made from snakewood, I think my puny arms can handle it.</p>
<p>ouch :(</p>
<p>While we’re taking a break from our choir rehersals, we should invent some super fantastic magic wooden oboe case cushions.</p>
<p>And then we could take over all the oboe makers in the world, selling only hard wood cases, virtually ensuring that every musician will need our cushions! Then, I will actually be able to pay for Yale!</p>
<p>Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!</p>
<p>We should also take over all of the sushi restaurants in the world, because it is so yummy but so expensive and I have been wasting all of my hard-earned money on it.</p>
<p>And all of the record stores :D</p>
<p>why not the whole world while we’re at it?</p>
<p>Haha I like the way you think ;)</p>
<p>Becoming leaders in the world? I expect that going to Yale will help us to do just that.</p>
<p>ooo… magic oboe cushions!!!
if you could invent some sort of magic oboe reed maker, you might make more moneys. lol</p>
<p>too true, too true. when I had braces, I went through those reeds faster than my teacher could make them.</p>
<p>Ahh that’s not a pretty picture…Your teacher made reeds?</p>
<p>And guys, you are way behind. I’ve already invented a magic oboe reed maker.</p>
<p>haha…
my teacher was a college student who made her own reeds because the nicer ones were around 30 dollars. She sold them to me for about half that price and my instructor said that I had better tone.</p>
<p>haha that’s impressive. I guess that’s an example of what my band director keeps harping on about: It’s the musician, not the instrument, that makes good music!</p>
<p>Come to think of it, my photo teacher says the exact same thing about photographers and cameras.</p>
<p>It seems our teachers are really into praising their students.</p>
<p>it’s nice to hear but after a while you want to hear the honest truth…and when you hear it, you hate it because it sounds so foreign</p>
<p>Precisely. I’m going to follow your tangent for a moment here: I was just complaining to my dad because I got my first OFFICIAL paper back in english, and I got an unusually high grade. I was left rather disappointed, because I was hoping for some criticism. I was really looking forward to growing as a writer under her guidance. However, it’s hard to tell whether I actually deserved the grade I got, or whether she is simply an easy grader. Like you said, years of easy graders and inflated praise that makes it hard to identify and digest the honest truth.</p>
<p>It is especially true for English teachers. And it is NOT a help when it comes to college essays. They do nothing but fix the minute grammatical errors that I don’t even think the adcoms could catch. Or they toss out vague statements like, “your ideas are great but I don’t really sense you…” Yet these same teachers are such great writers themselves. On a brighter note, it makes me excited for the kind of English/writing instructors I’ll have in college!</p>
<p>I agree, English teachers don’t get college essays AT ALL.</p>
<p>And I am so looking forward English/writing instructors in college. I really really am. That’s probably the primary reason that I’ve become interested in DS–there is simply no way that you could come out of an intensive experience like that without becoming an unbelievably competent writer. I would also love those Thursday night bonding sessions…and of course, graduating with an appreciation for the entire western canon.</p>