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It's always kind of uncomfortable. lol. I think the modern human is inept at accepting praise. xD
He seriously said one day that my sound on bassoon was like "rich, decadent dark chocolate" and described it in thorough detail. While in the middle of a rehearsal in front of the entire ensemble. After like a verbally presented essay about how wonderful I am, he then goes 'oh, and the bass clarinets were good too.'
xD
I was so embarrassed. But amused at the same time. Because, seriously, dark chocolate? xD

It was sort of a recent realization. I was taking the practice SAT's and they asked us what field we wanted to go into as part of like the initial thing (where they ask your race and name and gender and stuff) and I put marine biology, but I didn't really think I wanted to do that. So I considered it some more and then both my piano teacher and wind ensemble director started bothering me about going to school for music, and I said no to them at first but then with further thought I actually realized that this might be the only thing I can actually get through a 4 year college with. xD with my sanity intact, anyway.
The other choice at this point is library sciences. Which is basically just so that I can get a job later in life that'll still leave me time to play music. Haha.
But what I really want to do is to play in an orchestra- maybe a pit orchestra for an opera troupe or something.

What are you majoring in, anyway?

It WAS pretty funny though. "Erin, I just have to say, your sound is like delicious dark chocolate. It's... it's strong, it's decadent and full and sweet and bitter at the same time. It's gorgeous. Blah blah blah." And me and my friend, an alto sax player, were looking at each other and trying not to laugh the whole time. He said I turned red at some point. xD

Ha. That was me in global and english two years ago. But now my english teacher HATES me. So I really do think he's penalizing me in terms of grades. Because, I mean, you know the way I write-- and I earned an 83 in his class last quarter.
I missed a couple hw assignments, but not enough to drop my grade from like a ninety eight out of a hundred (which was my test and quiz average) or so to an 83.

anyway.

I've heard it's competitive, but
A) i like competition ;]
and
B) I play two rare-ish instruments- bari sax and bassoon- and I've been told that certain schools always have a shortage of both, so. Someone described the bassoon as a "golden ticket".

Those are three very different plans, eh? xD
Most of the college students I'm friendly with are the same way. Like this one sailing instructor over the summer thought for sure he was going into language (I think? can't remember now) and last I heard from him he was in school and undeclared.

Fashion design would be awesome. My mom got accepted into a school of art and design when she was applying to colleges. I think she went there for like two years or so. She said it was fun.

And she's now a teacher. The thing about teaching though is that lately, at least where I live, it's been REALLY hard to find jobs.

I don't know about writing... P: I want to get published too, but relying on it for a living... I dunno. That would take a lot of joy out of it, you know? That, and you never know if you're even going to get published or not.