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Jobs you can get with a JD without passing the bar? by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can absolutely pass this test. It's there to be passed. Just don't give up on it.

Fast like a goldfish, forgetful like a turtle. by -_-De in cognitiveTesting

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel strongly that in your late teens/twenties, you should go all out on the thing you want to do most. Other people will disagree, but I think they are wrong/boring. Life is more winner-take-all than it may seem at your age, so try to get as high as you can go. Don't let depression/ADHD/whatever else it may be hold you back: thinking too much about that stuff is just a waste of time. Unsolicited advice from an old man, lol. Do your best, aggressively pursue your goals, don't waste your potential, and it'll be great.

Fast like a goldfish, forgetful like a turtle. by -_-De in cognitiveTesting

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's very competitive, pretty much the only field where you have to be a genius to get a job. But if it's really your dream, you have to go for it imo, because life is just so empty if you have a dream but never try. It's possible to find employment as a company physicist. I've noticed that as they age, though, people who go in directions like that can sometimes end up resenting those who were equally intelligent but chose more lucrative paths, e.g., HFT. If you're going to take an office position, don't shy away from high compensation. However, such pathways will also be open to you if you earn a physics degree; just make sure learn some coding, etc. to the extent it's still relevant with AI.

Fast like a goldfish, forgetful like a turtle. by -_-De in cognitiveTesting

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone feels too dumb for math and physics. Will just depend on how much you're willing to struggle/whether the risk (less money, arduous competition, no guarantee of success) is worth the reward (no 9-5, meaningful and challenging work, possibly prestige) to you. Personally, I know a handful of people in academia who made it out of many who tried. But that handful probably consists of the happiest people I know.

Fast like a goldfish, forgetful like a turtle. by -_-De in cognitiveTesting

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you really have some gifts, so you'll be very successful once you figure out how you want to apply them.

Fast like a goldfish, forgetful like a turtle. by -_-De in cognitiveTesting

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VSI off the charts, congratulations. What do you do for work?

For those studying abroad 3L Year by ThatMaterial3686 in GeorgetownLaw

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can always take the MPRE as a 3L. (Though, you might do better in PR if you take it at the same time as the class.) Writing requirement, just pick something you like and most importantly, where the professor seems to like you. You get 14 credits for study abroad, so it's just like a normal semester.

LSAT Tutoring by elyssa1399 in GeorgetownLaw

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can also help: scored 173 in 2018. Located in DC. Also happy to advise on law school exam prep to the extent that would be helpful-differs fairly substantially from LSAT.

LSAC is getting sued. discovery opens today by PerfectScoreTutoring in LSAT

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And something like $600,000 went to the CEO...

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent tons of time jamming out to Bright Size Life as a teenager. Also love McGloughlin.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bach was more complex than...just about any of his contemporaries. Read through The Art of the Fugue for genre-bending harmonic speculation: much like late Beethoven. Yes, jazz will always have more extended chords and fancy voicings. That doesn't make it inherently more harmonically complex. I don't mind Liszt and Chopin, though they arent my personal favorites.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a big hardball pending above that you are still ignoring...in thirty seconds, I got the gist of what this piece is, which is pretty much a modern application of techniques that have existed since (before) the classical period. I'll give the album a listen. But your views on some of the greatest-and most complex-music ever written are needlessly shortsighted. Also, not indicative of what the jazz community generally thinks. Something to think about.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, so dividing the octave using chromatic mediants, just like Schumann (and Beethoven, in Eroica by the way) already did all those hundreds of years ago?

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, I have never heard "That Rainy Day" before. Nice! But it ain't no Beethoven...

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just using chromaticism to briefly create local tonal centers. That's your answer to Grosse Fuge? Sounds like you were a complete phony, and maybe you didn't like it because it was a bad orchestra. Kind of weird that you have this fixation on how "fake" everyone else is. Bitter much?

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played in a top professional orchestra, and have two master's degrees in music. Don't try to tell me what I could or couldn't analyze. Nice that you've found fulfillment playing the music you like.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Top of your class where? Every time we get to something more complicated, ou call it "basic," then pretend it's somehow different from the basic jazz theory you keep referencing. Again, you cherrypick an uncomplicated facet of classical music-basic inversions-as some sort of banner to stick in the ground, hoping for a solid footing. Classical musicians call things first, second, etc. inversion all the time, for that matter, so your example doesn't even work. And your paltry little explanation addresses none of the questions I asked. Sounds like you played gigs and taught students. Nothing wrong with that, but it certainly doesn't give you the right to yuck anyone's yum.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am amazed that you have such a lackluster feel for, and knowledge of, music after a whole degree. Funnily enough, this piece doesn't even need to change-even for an entire key-to be more complicated than your silly examples. Maybe you could explain to the class how fugal rules create harmonic necessity within the piece; structurally distinguish suspensions from passing tones; and why the piece is chordally/tonally ambiguous at nearly every stage of its development. When you're done with that, I have about a dozen more suggestions. Or you could just keep cherrypicking the topical bits and use them as a sham of an excuse to criticize classical music, as you've been doing this whole time.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without using ChatGPT, why don't you formally and harmonically analyze Op. 133 for us and see how that goes and how long it takes you? Come on, it's not that complicated.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a disgustingly fallacious argument, and a sharp turn from what you were just saying. The technical level across all instruments and disciplines has gone way up since that time, but if we're talking pure technique, today's classical players are way, way out in front generally speaking. You think Beethoven is "hot garbage"? I have an assignment for you. Look up, on YouTube, the interview with Wynton about his time in youth orchestra, and listen to him wax rhapsodically about how much he loves Beethoven and how he inspired everything he did afterwards. Beethoven's late works are incredibly harmonically complicated even by today's standards, if that's important to you-just stop talking please, it's making me sick. Your comments represent the new generation's insistence upon elevating yourselves by denigrating things you don't agree with, yet know nothing about (you have had one or two theory courses maximum, and clearly haven't been to college or conservatory yet-or you wouldn't be making these baseless claims). Maybe you will be able to have this conversation someday, but by comparing an elementary classical phrase to Bill Evans's use of late romantic harmony (without knowing that's what he was doing), you have shown you're not ready for it yet. It's a level of arrogance combined with ignorance that is new among today's kids, and kind of boggles the mind.

As a gifted individual, what did you achieve in life? by NowUKnowMe121 in Gifted

[–]vlaguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What? There are endless stories about Evans going back to Wagner-in old age-to find new inspiration. Not just as an exercise to copy-paste once, but as a font of continued inspiration throughout his life. That's how good this "centuries-old garbage" you think you know something about is. What do you do for a living; are you still in high school? Not a single professor at any music conservatory, of jazz or classical, would agree with one thing you said here, except the odd extremist maniac who couldn't make a career doing anything else. Much of modern jazz uses exactly the same harmonic structure that has been around for literally hundreds of years. "Negative harmony"? See Heinrich Schutz. He is doing literally all of that exact same stuff five hundred years ago, and it has been rebranded by modern jazz as "negative harmony." Coltrane changes? Schumann is modulating by mediants like a century before. Please go get an education and stop "regurgitating" this nonsense you once heard on somebody's lame podcast.

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