Gettin' Personal

Hello all, Sydney here..also know as Syd to those who prefer the informal. I am a Music Education Major on the Integrated Track here at WKU. I came here because I was told WKU was the best university for music in Kentucky by my beloved orchestra director Dr. Benson. I love music. It is my everything under God, my mother, and family (friends included). My primary instrument is the Viola. (A lot of people don't know what that is...but, it looks like a Violin, but it goes an octave lower and it is slightly bigger...and you play it just like a Violin) I have played the viola for about 8 years now and I absolutely love it. I think the second instrument I would claim would be vocal, and then the Piano. I have a very artsy background. I paint, draw, write poetry, decorate, play and sing music. I love all kinds of music from classical to bluegrass. I love talking about things that are not superficial, things that take a lot of thought and soul searching. I also love talking about silly things too. One can not be serious 24/7 or at least should not be serious 24/7.



I am truly excited to be taking Women's Studies this semester. I think it is going to be an interesting class. I have learned so much already that I was completely in the dark about. I honestly thought that the class would be mainly about menstrual cycles and how bad men are and how abortion is the way to go. But it has definitely turned out to be so much more. I can't wait to learn even more about society, gender study, and race. I have so many opinions about the whole society subject. For example, people are extra shallow now-a-days. We are so worried about self image that our little girls, who are perfectly healthy, look at the women on television who are going on diets (saying that skinny and slutty are the way to go) and say, "Mommy I want to go on a diet so I can be pretty too," and the age of 6. That is really mind blowing. Don't even get me started on the whole Toddlers In Tiaras. One word describes this show...SICK!



Some of the things I have learned already are the way women have pretty much been seen as too weak and too frail to be able to do much. Especially in the not so distant past. We women have rights now, but we are still seen as weak and delicate. We women are not as weak as some may think, actually we are really strong. In some cases stronger than men. (the whole pain threshold along with many other things) I guess I can consider myself to be a feminist in that I want equality for the sexes. I have realized, though, that there are certain things that women can do that men can't do and certain things that men can do that women can't do. That's just a reality, but neither should be descriminated against simply because of their sex.



That is just a little snippet about me, who I am, and what I think about.

Thank you for reading.

Love always



Syd