We musicians can be our own worst enemy. Our passion causes us to care too much, our perfectionism causes us to avoid practicing, and our...

So I realized the other day: I’m an adult. I’m like, old. In a year and half, I’ll be entering the Real World finally, and I’ll need a...

So. In the past two hours I have: Forgotten my lunch Gotten so lost that I ended up 45 minutes late for work Destroyed my phone screen,...

If there is one thing I excel at, it’s doing my schoolwork even when I’m sick as a dog. This is because I have the immune system of an...

I know at least one person who has lost all motivation because summer has begun. There’s something about not being in a regular,...

The biggest demon of most musicians is a feeling of insecurity. It’s the creeping (or blatant) suspicion that you are literally the worst...

A lot of musicians are perfectionists. Surprise surprise, the kind of person willing to spend four hours practicing a day wants to be...

So yesterday, I bought a fish tank. I probably should not have, because it ate up all my free time yesterday, and it was expensive, and...

It’s like a fact of life that no matter how good your school’s dining halls are, you will hate them by the second month of your freshman...

DID YOU KNOW: Being a music major is widely considered highly stressful. A friend of mine made a joke the other day about how she is...

Semester begins, for me at least, in about two weeks. Academic stuff is already beginning to fill my plate, with graduate school...

I will be completely honest here: one of the strangest but most predictable events of my musical school year is the annual Fleeing of the...

If you are, were, are going to be, or even considered being a music major in college, then you know the fear of Not Getting In. (Heck, in...

Hey! Are you like me? Do you ALSO have huge plans for stuff you are going to accomplish over the summer? And yet, do you wake up in...

If there is ONE problem out there that every musician suffers from, regardless of age, skill level, profession, or whatever, it’s...

It’s getting to be recital season, jury season, finals season. It’s getting to be near the end of the semester, when all those things...