Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
At 9:12 AM +0000 5/23/01, Robert Eberwein wrote: >Once i was in a graduate seminar where the required booklist totaled >345$. I announced to the small class that I had all 7 of these books >and would gladly make copies [of the selected readings] for each >student. The Prof blew a cold chill, and made it very clear that >this would NOT be appropriate. > >My first master's degree taught me nothing I'd not learned as an >undergrad and cost around 20,000$. At 12:22 PM -0400 5/23/01, Tom Ritchford wrote: >Well, I think more and more that I was very lucky to go to a >Canadian university I guess I lucked out in most respects, despite going to an American university (UCSD). In five years of graduate study I had only one class with a text written by a faculty member, and at was Bob Erickson's "Sound Structure in Music" which I already had! I also managed to avoid filling the U's coffers - I even got paid a stipend. That must be why I'm such a brat. However, faculty politics were an ongoing hazard and I found myself a football on occasion. I also experienced the vanishing professor problem. I was enrolled for private composition studies with a particular Very Famous Composer for two quarters and met with him exactly twice. He is now on the faculty at Harvard. Whether he actually teaches there I don't know. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz