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and apologies for the typos, its just not my night.

thank you all so much for your feedback. truly.

CM.O is a good university

Emphasis mine. When you see it...

The social aspect is important, and the reason I've repeated that a few times is because, from the department of "if I had to do it all over again," that's the part I missed out on the most. I knew people who deliberately had half-credit course loads with one ensemble (basically, a graded weekly jam session) and nothing else on their plates besides jamming and hopefully gigging, and the more I remember about those people the more I think they had an ingenious plan.

If the social goals are more important to you than the academic, I recommend visiting as many campuses as you can until you find the one with the right social atmosphere. I'm not aware of any one school happening to have a lot of chipmusic folks attending it, so it's really up to you.

Just make sure you show up to class often enough to not get kicked out.

I can't believe I forgot about Theta's thread, although it got similarly sidetracked my thoughts and the details I provided haven't changed.

I posed pretty much the same question two years ago.

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/4813/ … c-and-you/

Anyways, now that graduation is only a few weeks off, I've got a better idea of what I'd like to do.  I plan to major in electrical engineering and minor in music.  I think it's going to be really great and hopefully I'll be able to work as an electrical engineer within the field of music technology someday!

There have definitely some of those 2 year schools that have contacted me, but i would like a 4+ degree school.

I think the general advice was avoid arts-related faculties and unaccredited "recording" programs offered by technical for-profit colleges.
Definitely go to university.

I've been looking at N.Y.U. but not so much U.S.C., ill definitely look there.
And to all the people telling me not to go to college, i really would like to get out and experience the world, and im very much looking foreword to college. i sure i could learn whatever i wanted to in my room in my parents house, but living with your parents kindof defeats a lot of the fun of being out of high school.

just saying.

School puts your brain  in a box. here is some advice...before you get sucked in to piano and singing the major scale, write out the ascending and descending chromatic scale syllables. Now go buy a fretless bass. pick up a trig book. Learn by ear with all 12 tones. 12tet is not even that great. Look up just tuning. research the connection between cymatics and mantras.

NYU and U.S.C have a rep for good music production/tech programs.

Ignore the "teach yourself on google" advice. Sound/music production is like learning graphic design. You can pretty much teach yourself anything if you want to badly enough. But you'll learn faster and more efficiently with good teachers, like minded fellow students, and access to high end equipment. Plus a school program keeps you focused and structured and forces you to learn some essential things that you might be too tempted to skip if you're self teaching.

Also if you want a job is sound design/production/engineering, that piece of paper is going to be a tremendous help in getting your foot in the door.

To make sure I am understood, I think there would be more to learn from an apprenticeship w/ Jellica or little-scale, so DM them for rates and fees.

You should have both academic and social goals as you decide.

Reminds me alot of The Dead Milkmen

you dont really say what you want from the course.

do you want to learn how to make/fix/research? do electronics/physics.

do you want to learn how to use a studio and make a bad noise? volunteer at a local music studio/radio station

ive got an a level in music tech and i started a degree in music tech and then quit.
I wanted to learn how to use a studio but it wasnt not really worth it.

it can give you access to some proper studio equipment that you might not be able to afford but with very limited time slots to use it, you can spend half the day setting it up/getting everything to work and then you run out of time or someone comes along and fiddles with everything over night and you have to start again. fustrating.

That's what private teachers, shared songs, and performances can help with, and college environment can help with that if that is your goal and reason for going. Zabutom (I hope that is right) is going to, or went to (been a while since I caught up with him, as long as I'm not mixing him up with someone) a uni that has a modular synths program, which is a great fit for him and something I recommend if you want to learn how to work modular synths.

College is not a magic bullet. It's important to have a clear goal for both the educational and social aspects before you apply. I also find that the information most programs teach is dated in some way, so it's best to learn things that are not likely to have changed much or at least can be adapted to the present.

If a touring/gigging lifestyle is in the OPs plans, Martin Atkins teaches his Tour Smart! thing in one of the Chicago schools.