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

[Christine Hall]

I haven't acted in many years, but I was a decent journeyman actor. Had 
a reputation for getting off book quickly, which actually got me a 
couple of parts (there's a really interesting story behind one).

In college I was really good at directing, and really liked it. I 
haven't done any community theater or had any theater involvement since 
leaving college in 1980, but I've often thought I'd like to direct 
something.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/25/19 4:19 PM, Lee Schlesinger via Ipg-smz wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     http://fossforce.com
> 
>     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
>     <mailto: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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