Orientation/Retistration

Orientation was a long, painful, stressful, and fun day. I woke up at 4 in the morning to drive to Chicago with my parents. When we got there I met one of my roommates Caitlin, she is really nice and I look foreward to getting to know her better. After an hour long speech of things I've already heard at least 5 times, they split the Musical Theater Majors into four different groups. Since my last name is Baker I was in the first group. They took us to the Theater Center where our Advisor talked about our major and the classes that we should be taking. Immediately following that I went with a some other people to the Dance Placement Test where we did some stretching excercises with some moving across the floor stuff, and we learned some original broadway coreography from Seussical the Musical. After the Dance portion I moved onto the Acting Placement which consisted of an interview of all of my past theater experience. Finally I was able to eat lunch, Caitlin and I were two of the last people to eat lunch and right in the middle of our meal we were pulled out to take the Music Theory placement test. After about 40 Minutes I completed the test and it was graded, I got a high enough score to take the next portion of the test which was Sight Singing (YIKES!) not my strongest point. Apparently I'm a lot better at it then I thought because the instructor was really impressed and I ended up placing out of all of my first year Music Theory, Sight Singing, Dance and Acting classes. Not too shabby. Then I went up to the Lab to schedule all of my classes. Unfortunately since I was one of the only people to take and complete all 3 placement tests I was one of the last to register so most of the classes were filled up. The classes I am taking are Musical Theater The Beginnings to 1945, Musical Theater Dance, Italian Language and Culture, Writing and Rhetoric, and Chemistry. I am pretty happy with my schedule, I wish I could of gotten into an Acting and Music class though.

Overall Orientation was a lot of fun and it only got me more excited to start learning more about my passion.


I move in 3 weeks from today =D