[Ipg-smz] What college class or major did you transfer out of?

[Lee Schlesinger]

I was a theatre arts major too, but I got disillusioned. I didn't take a
theatre class at Brandeis after sophomore year. (I had completed the
requirements for the major except for one class, and I took that during
junior year abroad.) The class I dropped was Acting 101 (well, THA 3). You
had to audition for the class. I auditioned in the spring - I didn't get
in. I auditioned in the fall - I didn't get in. But I knew one of the
professors, and I knew someone had dropped out of the class, so I talked my
way in. It was a full-year class, but I dropped it after the first
semester, because I wasn't good at it.

After college I found myself missing theatre people, so I started stage
managing community theatre shows. Then I realized that it was easier to
have a small part in a show than to be stage manager. Now I act more than I
tech, and darned if I'm not better than 90% of the male community theatre
actors I've worked with. (Not as many men show up for any given part as
women do for theirs, so the bar may not be that high.)

-- Lee

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:53 PM Christine Hall via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> I started as an English major, but switched to theater after getting
> bitten by the bug after taking an Acting 101 class. Ended up being the
> second string theater critic for the Monterey Herald at that time. Never
> completed college. Had to drop out after two years due to finances, even
> though my accumulated GPA was 4.0.
>
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
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> On 7/25/19 3:38 PM, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols via Ipg-smz wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?
> >>
> >
> > I started out in physics, but at my tiny little rural school--Glenville
> > State College--the professors were awful. At the same time, I had great
> > English and history professors So, it was, I left the hard sciences
> > behind and dove into the liberal arts.
> >
> > Later I discovered I was one of those people with a gift for
> > technology--I have no CS classwork to speak of--and I could combine that
> > knack with the skills I learned in the liberal arts. And, here I am
> > today instead of working at say SpaceX.
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
>
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