Dr. Kit Music

Last week continued to be kinda blah. I did eventually get about 15 pages of SFD for the second half of chapter 2, but it felt really forced and not very good. However, I met with my advisor yesterday and have a plan for the rest of the quarter. He also loaned me a book,…

I have not gotten as far as I wanted to this week. The nice weather is making it hard to stay indoors, my wrists are protesting from overuse, and some interlibrary loans took their time arriving (or were not what I was hoping for once they got here). Additionally, since I’ve been trying to catch…

This week was busy! After meeting with my advisor, I did catch up on my readings some, and then today I moved on to start the second half of chapter 2. I wasn’t planning on starting chapter 2 until September, but professors keep asking about how chapter 3 relates to things that other people are…

Over the last week, I’ve caught up on some readings, tried to do a write up of the syllabi I made last Tuesday, made example exercises/assignments, and tried to do a preliminary write up of said exercises. I think I’ve been going too long without feedback, and I’m pretty sure half of the syllabi write ups…

I am definitely glad I took a hefty spring break. This quarter it works out that I don’t have to teach or have meetings at all on Tuesdays, so I will be doing the bulk of my writing then. I planned out my quarter so I can finish chapter 3 (Implementation+Pedagogy) by June, as well as…

I had a good advising meeting a week ago and I feel pretty good about my schedule. Right now, I’m a bit behind on my readings, but I’m not going to stress about it yet. Next post in three weeks, will mostly be reading or taking a break till then.

I took a week off last week to run errands and get some other things done. However, since last updating the blog, I have written a couple more bits for chapter 3.5 and this morning I did a bunch of edits on chapter 3. I have 2 advising meetings this week, and I hope to…

The past week was busy. We hosted a conference (ocgm.uoregon.edu) here at school, so that took up some of my time and brain power. I had a productive editing meeting with one of my advisors and started on the pedagogical section (at this point, I’m going to call it Chapter 3.5). Mostly I’ve been making…

Last week I updated all my musical examples. Today I went thru and inserted them into the text. In doing so, I already found an error that needs to be fixed. I’m holding off with more example edits, because I’m afraid Chapter 3 might actually be Chapter 2 and I’ll have to redo all of…

In the last week, I finished cleaning up and adding to already-written bits of chapter 3. I also met with my advisors to share my goals and outline. Hopefully next week I’ll get some edits on chapter 3. Today and yesterday I’ve been working on making examples and diagrams. I’ve done more than 30 and I…