January 2013

05 Gemini- Way Back Into Love
04 Kyohaku - Want
03 Spark - Because of You
02 HPD48 - UZA
01 HamoniiStudios - Gemini

Sorry this is late!  I was going to put it up the weekend of the crash and I just now got it up.

It's semesters here.  LOL is it sad that I've already been in both of those situations?  Trying to get into classes after people dropped and talking to teachers to get in and hope they let me are both things I've had to deal with and it's pretty much the worst feeling ever.  I know all of the ins and outs of the frustrations of not getting your classes at this school.  They just should not be problems in the first place especially for every semester since I started at this school.  The only semester I was fine was the first semester of my Freshman year at orientation where they hold your hand and tell you what to take and when. 

The second semester of my Freshman year the only reason why I got classes was because my friends who were taking less credits than the cap held them for me until my registration time.  Hopefully it goes okay and the chair emails me back tomorrow morning.  8 spots left!

I'm so excited to be done with college now.

The problem is that at our school they do it by class for registering.  It goes Honors, Seniors, Juniors, etc.  And it's pretty much you get what you get depending on what's left.  As a Freshman it sucks really bad.  So since I am a Senior I got one of the first registration times.  By tomorrow the spots in this class will be gone.  There's only 8 spots left with just Seniors registering in a Junior/Senior class.  I really hate the way things at my school are run.  You'd think as a Senior classes would get easier to sign up for. 

Kind of ridiculous that you took a graduate class and no one told you.  The grad school we have is about a mile from here and they are under different registration times and such so that would be impossible to do here.

This was the hardest thing I have ever had to cast and I feel so bad about it!  To do this so I could completely avoid any bias, I had a dubber and a real life friend help me judge.  The criteria was based on Reliability, Mic quality, if you are a “Power Vocal” or lead material, if I can auto tune you, if there were harmonies in the audition (because it’s something I stressed on a lot for this that harmonies were important), and how you would overall fit with everyone else.

The three people also included pick order.  First pick would receive a 100%.  Second pick would get a 90%.  Everyone else would get 80% and the backup pick would get a 75%.  Everyone who got a pick by someone else received a score of 70%.  Even so, there were quite a few even 70% scores across the board even though they didn’t get ranked.  I decided to accept anyone 80% or above and also the person at 78% to go with a 6-member group.  The scores for those who ranked are as follows:

100% (top pick for 3 judges)
83% (Second pick from one judge, picked by other two)
80% (Second pick from one judge, picked by one other)
80% (All 3 choose)
80% (All 3 choose)
78% (Second pick from one judge, runner up by one other)
75% (Picked from one judge, runner up by one other)
75% (Picked from one judge, runner up by one other)
73% (Picked by one)

And the people of my group are as follows:
Ruby
DC
Rina
May
Farrah
Chohee

You will all be getting a PM soon.  Thank you all for the lovely auditions.  If any of you who did or didn’t make it would like your scores and/or overall critiques from all of our judges then please let me know and I will give them to you.

I would really like some more votes on this before I close it! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0cfnqn1Rok&feature=youtu.be

 

I'm from the Midwest and thought I'd never find weirder weather, but then I moved to northern Kansai and it's the EXACT SAME here. Shiga is officially the Midwest of Japan.

Wow that's crazy.  To think you probably thought you escaped the crazy weather here lol.

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I'm so glad I took this writing class.  I'm a Communication minor and to complete it I just needed one more higher level class.  I was trying to decide between the technology one (which I like technology and I would have liked the class) and the Rhetorical criticism one.  I know what you guys are thinking.  Technology right?  I took the rhetorical criticism one.  The technology teacher is super nice and amazing but she also expects perfection.  I would have had to do a super difficult research paper that I probably wouldn't do good on because she is a hard grader.  Rhetorical criticism class is with my favorite professor on campus so I took that.  Instead of one difficult long research paper we get four kind of easier short papers.

But the best thing is, as long as it fits the topic we can write on it.  First paper on Les Miserables' I Dreamed a Dream and the second one on Bridge to Terabithia?  Yes please.