Now That We're Graduated...What Are Our Plans?

[Musicman408]

I know several of us graduate high school this year. What are your all's plans for next year?

I will be attending Western Kentucky University, studying music eduacation so that I can be a high school choral director. My former high school choir performed at our commencement with all of the senior, juniors and sophomores in the Ballard Choral program. I thought the performance was alright, but I thought I'd post the link so you all could watch us and tell me what you thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6-6DESzqE

Also, I don't know if you all remember me talking about that special after school choral group that I was in, but some guy filmed a short documentary on us while we were rehearsing, so here's the link if you'd like to check us out~ It's actually kind of cool because you get to see a behind the scenes kind of look at us~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBnlRRRmvI&feature=related

[JWS]

I know several of us graduate high school this year. What are your all's plans for next year?

I will be attending Western Kentucky University, studying music eduacation so that I can be a high school choral director. My former high school choir performed at our commencement with all of the senior, juniors and sophomores in the Ballard Choral program. I thought the performance was alright, but I thought I'd post the link so you all could watch us and tell me what you thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6-6DESzqE

Western? You didn't like UK or Louisville?

[Musicman408]

Western? You didn't like UK or Louisville?

Western's music school is absolutely amazing and the choral director there is fantastic. Not that UK and UofL aren't because they very much are, it's just that the philosophies are kind of different at UofL vs. Western. :nod:

[David]

I will be attending Western Kentucky University, studying music eduacation so that I can be a high school choral director. My former high school choir performed at our commencement with all of the senior, juniors and sophomores in the Ballard Choral program. I thought the performance was alright, but I thought I'd post the link so you all could watch us and tell me what you thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6-6DESzqEA gorgeous performance of this, the greatest of all English hymns, written by Robert Robinson in the mid 18th century -- a man who suffered greatly in his waning years -- & set to an American folk melody known as Nettleton. I'm so proud of Ethan & his chorale mates!

Here are clickable thumbnails of a very unusual, elegiac arrangement with a contemporary feel by Richard Walters.

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Come, let us all sing together, here on the Ledge, & let the goodness of this place like a fetter bind our wandering hearts to one another!

Now let us enjoy the combined choruses at Brigham Young University, in an arrangement by Mack Wilberg:

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[michelle2677]

jesus, a hilltopper? are you going to the bowling green campus? i'm sometimes down there to visit friends. maybe not so much anymore. Murray State's music dept is far superior to Western's, but please don't change your mind and go there.

best wishes.

[Musicman408]

jesus, a hilltopper? are you going to the bowling green campus? i'm sometimes down there to visit friends. maybe not so much anymore. Murray State's music dept is far superior to Western's, but please don't change your mind and go there.

best wishes.

Well, I have worked with WKU's choral director many many times and he has many times said that he wants me down there. Plus, my choral director highly reccommends him, but he did also say that Murray is good as well. It's simply that I know the people over at Western. :nod: And even though you say they may not be as good, their choir is amazing. I hate to play the link card again, but check this out.... Amazing

http://www.wku.edu/Music/sing/MP3FILES/In%20Remembrance.MP3


As for you David, thank you very much. Our concert choir sounded even better singing that without the sophomores, because the younger girls' tone isn't quite as developed. But stilli am satisfied with it. Crazy to think that that is the last choral performance ever with the group that I was so dedicated to.

[LikeAWillow]

I'll be going to Wellesley next year and studying English and Economics. :)

[GODDESS6]

I know several of us graduate high school this year. What are your all's plans for next year?

I will be attending Western Kentucky University, studying music eduacation so that I can be a high school choral director. My former high school choir performed at our commencement with all of the senior, juniors and sophomores in the Ballard Choral program. I thought the performance was alright, but I thought I'd post the link so you all could watch us and tell me what you thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6-6DESzqE

Also, I don't know if you all remember me talking about that special after school choral group that I was in, but some guy filmed a short documentary on us while we were rehearsing, so here's the link if you'd like to check us out~ It's actually kind of cool because you get to see a behind the scenes kind of look at us~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBnlRRRmvI&feature=related

i like the christmas song you guys did~
so which one is you?~

[JWS]

jesus, a hilltopper? are you going to the bowling green campus? i'm sometimes down there to visit friends. maybe not so much anymore. Murray State's music dept is far superior to Western's, but please don't change your mind and go there.

best wishes.

Hi Diddle Diddle! :laugh:

[Musicman408]

i like the christmas song you guys did~
so which one is you?~

It's a terrible shot, but I am the guy in the red at 25 seconds. I may be in there more...I think I am, but I think you'll be able to find me. :laugh:

[Enchanted_Stevi]

I graduated as well this year..Here's a picture :D
That gown made me look so fat...lol
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b105/EnchantedNicks2005/Other/Graduation/grad7.jpg

I will be going to Johnson and Wales in Rhode Island for Culinary Arts

[Karlie]

Wow, I haven't posted here in a long time. Anyway, I graduated this year, too. I will be attending UC Berkeley to study psychology and either theatre or music.

[David]

Wow, I haven't posted here in a long time. Anyway, I graduated this year, too. I will be attending UC Berkeley to study psychology and either theatre or music.Congratulations! Getting in to Berkeley has always been very tough, but in very recent years it has been next to impossible. You must be a superb student!

I urge you to study music -- Beethoven will shine his everloving light down upon you & bestow blessings upon you.

[Karlie]

Congratulations! Getting in to Berkeley has always been very tough, but in very recent years it has been next to impossible. You must be a superb student!

I urge you to study music -- Beethoven will shine his everloving light down upon you & bestow blessings upon you.

Thanks! I really feel like the admissions people made some kind of mistake in accepting me, but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

[Chrislit18]

Caitlin, how lucky are you to have graduation outside!!!
I'm sure most of you guys do!!!

My administration is such hardasses, we have to have it in the gym, with 4000 people attending.!! :shocked:

But anyways, best of luck to all you new graduates!!! I hope all of you do well in college, or any other choice you choose to make now that you're out of school....

two more years for me :(

[Karlie]

Caitlin, how lucky are you to have graduation outside!!!
I'm sure most of you guys do!!!

My administration is such hardasses, we have to have it in the gym, with 4000 people attending.!! :shocked:

But anyways, best of luck to all you new graduates!!! I hope all of you do well in college, or any other choice you choose to make now that you're out of school....

two more years for me :(

Mine was indoors as well. I was always so jealous of all my friends at other schools who had theirs outside with awesome fireworks and stuff, but mine was a really nice ceremony too.

And don't worry about having two more years; they go by really quickly.

[David]

Mine was indoors as well. I was always so jealous of all my friends at other schools who had theirs outside with awesome fireworks and stuff, but mine was a really nice ceremony too.I went to my niece's graduation yesterday afternoon, here in the L.A. area. It was 100+ degrees in the sun. Everyone was miserable. It was hellish. There's a lot to be said for indoor controlled climate.

[Karlie]

I went to my niece's graduation yesterday afternoon, here in the L.A. area. It was 100+ degrees in the sun. Everyone was miserable. It was hellish. There's a lot to be said for indoor controlled climate.

Oh, mine was miserably hot, too. The air conditioning was broken. That, combined with the bright lights shining on us, body heat from all the people packed together, and the heavy gowns we wore, made it super hellish.

[estranged4life]

I never attended my own graduation, felt no reason to walk across a stage and receive an EMPTY diploma holder but no diploma...

I had just brought closure to my 'legal issues' and was forbidden to attend high school for the remainder of the year, so I was on 'homebound' for the last 9 weeks of my senior year - It took me ONLY one week to catch up for 9 weeks after my 'guidance counselor' told me MOCKINGLY "You have to come back next year, YOU'LL never catch up with those in your class"...WRONG thing to say to me.

I busted my ass and completed all the finals and courses, to only have this 'guidance counselor' and my cool 'homebound instructor' come to my residence and say "You're friends saved you your spot in the order of the classes graduation (I graduated 136 out a small class of about 600) and they want you to attend". I thought to myself "were these the same friends who believe the lies in the newspaper and never once visited me while I was locked up? And if so, how come NONE of these 'friends' arrived to ask me themselves?", so I decided "No, I wont attend...I'm busy."

Both my 'guidance counselor' and homebound instructor were in shock, and pleaded with me and let loose with the ol' "This is what you attended school all those years for, to walk across the stage as a graduate". I still said "No, I'm busy". I was BRIBED with $100 to attend and that wasnt going to work because money cant buy beliefs. When my 'guidance counselor' finally asked what I "was busy with that was more important than this once in a lifetime ceremony?" I told her "I'm going to go inside and listen to my music"...and closed the door.

I did hear these 2 trying to convince my mother to force me to go, but Mom knew I am very set in my ways and once I made up my mind, "forgettaboutit".

I was at school the next morning (May 28,1988) to get my diploma, and once I received it (After being given another's diploma by mistake) I told the office staff (Especially my 'guidance counselor' Mrs.Allen), on my way out the door, to "Go f**k yourselves".

I was enrolled in college the very next day...and guess what? I missed that graduation too, and the one I had in technical school too!!!!

[Sahara]

I finished three weeks of exams on Friday ... it still hasn't quite sunk in that I'm free yet!! :)

If I get the grades I need, I'll be off to study Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. Failing that, it'll be Psychology at National University of Ireland, Maynooth.