Dr. 3ELMAH

[unbound_spirit]

In honor of Markusha's birthday, where ever he may be, a random and humorous skill set evaluation.

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Language:

-Extensive training in French, training in German, training in Italian, training in Korean. 
-Worked as University tutor in French, German, and English as a Second Language for Korean students
-Helped in audio creation for French Praxis Exam for ETS.
-Used Korean skills during internship with NJSO in 2004 to communicate with producers and sales to the Korean community.   I also stopped some creepy guy from stalking Sumi Jo and stealing a bunch of money from NJSO. 
-Created language based on English, Cyrillic symbols, and Arabic numerals.  Only like two people other than me can read it.

I'm also interested in learning Russian next. 

Competition:

-Was a member of the team that won the National Engineering and Design Competition something like ten years in a row.
-Won 2nd place in the bridge design contest for that team.  (Designs were evaluated at Picatinny where a simulation machine was used to basically smash them to bits to see the point at which they would collapse.)
-Academic Decathlon Gold Medalist for Music, Silver Medalist for Neuroscience
-NFAA Merit Award recipient
-recipient of several university scholarships and grants.

Accents:

-After hanging out with so many people from Russia, I have developed the ability to immitate a Russian accent so well, I have managed to fool many Russians.  The jig is always up when they start speaking Russian to me, though, ha.
-I can also do British, Irish, and several others. 

Random training and research:

-Astro Physics
-Medicine and medical anthropology
-Immunology
-Phsychopharmacology
-Otolaryngology in relation to thyroid disease

Not so random training:

-Vocal performance and composition  A.B. and M.M. from Ivy League schools
-international opera experience
-extensive training in classical voice, contemporary music performance, musicology, music theory, etc.
-Recipient of numerous awards and grants
-Tutor for university in music theory, music history
-experience as voice teacher for students of various ages and backgrounds

Other:

-Strong writing and reasoning abilities.  Published essays.
-Experience in administration, software research, and funding research

Personality:

-Able to perform well under pressure
-Restless being in any one place too long
-Tendency towards depression
-Perfectionist
-Dedicated to succeeding at any given task

And yet my degrees (Bachelor and Master)  are in music.  Seriously, what should I do with my LIFE?

Comments

[mechanyx.livejournal.com]

Build a quantum phase inhibitor. I'll probably get to actually listen to your voicemail in like 20 minutes.

[callmetothejedi.livejournal.com]

You are an extremely intelligent, articulate, passionate, BEAUTIFUL woman. I haven't heard you sing, but I feel that the music world would be poorer without your vocal talents. You work hard, and there is nothing wrong with being a perfectionist. I could see you doing extremely well in a Ph.D program of some kind - didn't you say in a previous post that you wanted to combine your musical studies with your scientific research? I think that that sort of research - combining music with science - would be interesting and a good read.

[le-putois.livejournal.com]

World Domination's always a good bet!

[willowfinn.livejournal.com]

When we do finally meet in person, I predict that we will be speaking pseudo-Russian to each other within five minutes. Possibly less.

[dsch.livejournal.com]

Woah, I had no idea you had such a science background in addition to all the awesome music stuff you do!

Me, I realize I'm not innovative enough of a composer to make it in that field, nor do I have a high enough sense of self-worth to aggressively promote my work. Music is not The Thing I should be doing with my life, and I realize I would like to do science instead. But you, with all the stuff you've done to promote new music and all the jobs you've already had, are the type of person the field of music needs and should be glad to have. I definitely think mountain-moving is within your reach, at least based on what I've read in your journal.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Sounds like things are really rough for you right now.

It's good to be able to get it out of your system what you don't want to do.

But it might help to start listing things you DO want to do. For example:

You're an operatic singer who wants to perform new (or new-ish) works. Which is to say: you are the Dream Come True for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of living composers out there, who are desperate for a champion. OK, not every single one will be the next Benjamin Britten. But who cares? Back when opera singers were singing brand-new stuff by Mozart, they were also singing plenty of contemporary works by people no one remembers anymore.

You have some networks already. It seems that every month the intranet-tubes come up with a whole new method for networking.

Could you place ads, saying you're seeking new manuscripts? Facebook has places for such stuff. MySpace probably does (if you're willing to wade through all their crap). You probably know the places to check a lot better than I do.

And, you know, if you want to take some math or physics or astrophysics classes, why not? You don't lose the ability to explore a new field, or re-explore an old one, just because you turn 25 (or, for that matter, 65, as my father keeps demonstrating).