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September 8th

 What I want to accomplish today Send video to Dallas Go to book store. Get what I need. Practice that one song on the piano Print out music that Voice teacher gave me and anything else I might need. Practice rooms Take ozempic shot Begin to learn Vocal music Vocal rep readings. Figure out laundry. German What I will do right now Video to Dallas Hello! I am Donovan Bernard Welch, I am a junior in the vocal performance program. I enjoy swimming, learning languages, flying kites, photoshop, and working out. I spent the summer being a care taker for my grandma. I am going to put something that I have sang before on here. Practice rooms Vocal rep

9/2/20

 Things that are stressing me out: Voice lesson tomorrow, I need to have suicide aria memorized Vocal Rep reading. Are the practice rooms confirmed or what? What the heck is up with the practice rooms? I can't find my headphones again, I literally just found them. I think that they may be cursed. What is the German homework? There is no description of the homework. Do I need the german textbook or not? I am pretty good at finding stuff online, and he appears to be putting slides on the internet so. Stuff that I have done really well at so far in this semester Communicating to teachers when there is a problem with my schedule Being a leader in the cohort. Waking up at a reasonable time I have worked out a few times I have eaten pretty healthy. What I will do right now in the hour that I have before aural skills: Do reading for Vocal Rep Work a little bit on my Chromatic chart. Memorize a little bit. Figure out what the heck is up with the German Homework. Try to find vocal rep books...

9/1/20

 What needs to be accomplished today Vocal rep reading Theory module Morning Opera Buy books/find opera book online so you can have computer dictate it to you. Practice rooms Practice in the practice rooms Email piano teacher Talk to theory LG

8/31/20

 Things that need to be accomplished *=time sensitive Figure out why I am not signed up for conducting Figure out the voice blog and why people are not being put down as authors Figure out what the german class is doing Read German Syllabus Lockers at fine arts center and at the pool Practice rooms Watch video on it Watch at least the vocalises and put it in the blog* Conducting Plan how I am going to keep track of assignments no chamber today Figure out how I am going to remember to do the readings for Music history Revise Blog ideas to be more realistic Memorize Suicide Aria Things I will do right now:  Practice rooms Vocalises

Aug 29th

 What needs to happen today: get books Make sure the german class is happening Start another order for food Read email for zoom call. Practice music, especially papageno's suicide aria and Baby Doe Write in current schedule into calendar including voice area events.

20 minutes on 5 minutes off

 I have noticed that when I watch the screen or do homework for too long, my mind starts to wander, and I tend to go to distractions like youtube or video games. So I want to make a blog specifically rediverting my habits. So I will make a list of distractions that I tend to go to that get me trapped, and I will write replacement habits that I can do instead. Non-helpful trap Habits: Going to youtube Going to the kitchen to snack on something Minesweeper Facebook Playing the piano Replacement Habits that could take no more than 5 minutes Walking up the hill and back Getting a drink of water Quiz self on musical Repituar Meditation 1 beat saber song Splashing water on face (it may be a good idea to get a squirt bottle) 1 session of the home work out app (15 minutes) Stretching Talk to room mate about what I am learning Switch to paper record self with eyes closed talking about what you are learning Ask myself as many questions about subject

August 27th 2020 Daily Blog

What is my to do list for now up to when school starts Go to store buy everything I need. Buy books Finish figuring out overlapping schedule Voice meeting on  Put schedule into phone Install phone recorder, one that transcribes, or see if I can get the google recorder to record it. Figure out the tricks of video confrencing Figure out how to email better, perhaps watching youtube. Warm up, sing rep Hook up to the WIFI at the school Work out PARKING Things that are pressing and I should do today: Go to store Buy books Schedule Warm up and sing rep School Wifi Work out. Email better PARKING

Potential challenges/new ideas for this blog

 Obviously I will run into problems when I go through this school year, so I want to write them down and take ownership of them early. I will first write down potential problems then think of potential ways to think around them. 1. Challenging teachers 2. Getting behind and feeling like I can't catch up. 3. Sudden depression/depression in general 4. Procrastination 5. Not being able to sleep at night/feeling tired. 6. Going home then forgetting about your responsibilities because you make amazing food. 7. Drained from too much online screen time 8. Getting distracted 1. Challenging teachers I feel like one of my biggest challenges thus far in college is asking for help from professors. possible solutions: In a class that I am struggling in set up a weekly time to go and talk to the teacher, so it is the default not the emergency option. The idea of writing who could help me in daily blog is a really good idea, maybe following up with self to see if it worked. After each homework se...

Ideas for the Expectations for this Blog for Donovan

Purpose of this blog:  Get through a rough 18 credit semester This blog will keep me on task by forcing me to keep myself accountable Ideas to do so:  Write a post before every class and every time I am about to practice (if new voice teacher doesn't require it) and every time I sit down to do homework. Then comment afterwards what I learned... More refined idea:  After Every Class I take a few moments to write what I learned, even if I had written down everything. Potentially in bullet form. Potential questions to ask myself for classes: What did you learn in this class, and why was it important? What seemed easy about this class? What seemed hard about this class? What can I do/who can I talk to between now and next class in order to learn the material? When will I do the homework? Every time I sit down to do homework I take one to two minutes to write another post about what I want to accomplish in the time, then comment afterwards about it. Potential questions to ask ...