February, 2010
Vanderbilt Pride
Feb. 28, 2010—Four hours before game time the Saturday of the Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky men’s basketball game, there was a shockingly long line of Vandy students outside Memorial Gym. (Here at Vanderbilt, we don’t buy student tickets to games – we get into all athletic events free with our Vandy ID) When I finally entered the stadium,...
The Changing Face of Vandy
Feb. 26, 2010—This fall semester I had a very special Homecoming weekend. Of course Homecoming weekend is always fun because of the game, parties, and everything else but this year’s I got to experience even more than a great tailgate. I spent a portion of this Homecoming weekend showing around a Vanderbilt alumnus who was also one...
A Different Approach
Feb. 25, 2010—Today Julie Simpson, Professor of Voice at the University of Colorado at Boulder, came to conduct a master class for the voice department at Blair. Before today, I knew what a master class was, but had never been lucky enough to attend one. Not to insult the intelligence of people that already know, but for...
Week # 7
Feb. 23, 2010—This past weekend was a busy one. Being in Blair, we are required to attend certain performances when faculty or other professional musicians perform. I attended a stellar show featuring our own Blakemore Trio (faculty pianist, cellist and violinist). They also played behind the well known composer and Soprano Susan Botti. The show was very...
School Spirit
Feb. 18, 2010—Growing up a New Yorker college athletics were sort of an unknown phenomenon to me. I followed the bowl games when the end of December rolled around, and always got into March Madness, but outside of those two big events I barely followed college sports. It seems that the culture of college athletics simply is...
Diversity at Vandy
Feb. 15, 2010—Diversity and difference exist in many forms at Vanderbilt. What are the primary forms you have noticed and what have you specifically done to help persons/groups representing this diversity come to a greater understanding of one another? Numbers are NOT diversity. The percentage of minority students does not define diversity. J. K. Rowling, a famous...
Never a dull moment at Vandy
Feb. 12, 2010—Events on campus are starting to pick up intensely. If you have been following college basketball, you would know that we are well within the top 25 in the NCAA Division I rankings. Tuesday night was an incredible game where we took on #12 ranked Tennessee and topped them by 19 points. It was an...
Melodores in Action
Feb. 8, 2010—This past weekend was the ICCA Acappella competition at UGA in Athens, Georgia. Although the Melodores did not advance to the next level of the competition, we did have a successful performance and a great time to bond with each other. As I mentioned before, Vanderbilt does a great job of actively supporting student organizations;...
The Soundtrack to “A Typical Vandy Week”
Feb. 3, 2010—I don’t know about y’all (yeah yeah I’m your resident southern belle blogger…) but I sometimes wish that there was music playing in the background of my life everyday. Don’t lie… you know you’ve thought about it too. Well I decided to thoroughly search through my iTunes library to find the perfect soundtrack to my...
The "Melodores"
Feb. 2, 2010—Monday evening – 11:52pm (aka the only time I have had to write this today) So I got into the “Melodores” acapella group last week. They needed a couple of guys to fill spots quickly as this coming weekend we are competing at the University of Georgia for the quarterfinals of the ICCA acapella competition....