I'm all done with masters coursework! That's exciting.

I had my most difficult exam ever last night, in History of Theory. I didn't do as well as I'd have liked in the paper for the class, which was the only other source of our final grade, so I took it really seriously and studied for basically the whole preceding week. And while I wasn't feeling like I'd exactly aced it last night, the more I think about it, the more I think I did well. I think I correctly identified the "unknown sources" (Aristotle, perhaps the Politics and Heinrich Glarean, Dodecachordon) and discoursed intelligently on the Alia musica, the problem of Mode 8, the sedes troporum, ethos, Lodovico Fogliano, and mensural theory 1200-1500 (the Discantus positio vulgaris, Johannes de Garlandia, Magister Lambert, Franco of Cologne, Philippe de Vitry, and Johannes de Muris). I'm hoping, anyway.

Today I entered my final grades, then picked up my course evaluations. Overall, they're very positive, giving me high marks especially for making a "dull" subject (? ...surely not!) "interesting," being well prepared, and being "almost overly" enthusiastic. Unsurprisingly, there was the usual contingent who said the class moves too quickly. More surprising, there was a larger number who complained that I made the tests too easy with hints. Well, fine, I'll change that, and they'll be cursed by generations of T132 students. But some real highlights:

enforce discipline, i.e. assigned seating, no talking, etc. pop music is silly - nobody is in a program about pop music.

You use tons of filler words such as um... uh... and er... after every sentence. It questions your intelligence and is very distracting and annoying.

More extra credit.

I like the daily, beautifully set up powerpoints!

You are a gangsta, who plays his cards right.