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10 Things I Would Rather Do Than Practice

And I Am Probably Actually Doing

Ryan Smith

Oct 04, 2016

Starkville, MS

10 Things I Would Rather Do Than Practice

1) Sleep

We hardly get enough sleep as it is as college students, balancing school life and social lives. So what if I decide to take a nap next to my instrument in the practice room?

2) Eat

I mean, who needs to play the Fight Song for the 40th time that day? I'll enjoy my 3rd quarter snack instead.

3) Find Somewhere to Park on Campus

To be honest, if I know that I won't find parking anywhere near the practice rooms, then I probably am not going to be practicing that day.

4) Take Core Classes

I mean, I only need to know how to count to 4 over and over again, but this Statistics class will probably have fewer skipped days than my practice schedule.

5) Go to Only 0 Credit Hour Classes

Yes, these are required for your music degree. Countless hours that barely make it to your transcript and you can never get back. But this is still preferable to practicing that one difficult measure for hours.

6) Break My Instrument Before a Performance

Now, I don't have to practice, right? Oh, I do? But it doesn't work anymore! Still gotta practice? Alright, back to scales it is.

7) Learn A Different Instrument

Why would I want to be amazing at one instrument when I can be mediocre with 12?8) Upset My Studio Professor

Oh wait, that already happens...

9) Practice

Sometimes, you would rather practice than practice. And although that makes no sense to non-music majors, it doesn't have to.

10) Listen to My Non-Music Major Friends Brag About Their Freetime

Well, back to the practice rooms I go!

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Sometimes it's not right, and we just don't care.

Because Chandler Bing should be everyone's spirit animal.

1. When you have to wake up early, because you have a 9 AM class.

2. When all of your friends are coupled up... except for you.

3. When you get really bored in class, and you want your professor to stop talking

4. When you're trying to impress the person that you like, or your significant other.

5. When you got drunk at the bars... again.

6. When you are single, and desperate.

7. When you talk with someone who you don't like.

8. When it's finals week.

9. When you don't feel like working out.

10. When you finally decide to go out for the first time in months.

The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

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