Name: Ashley Korolewski
Profession: Student and Residential Assistant, Boston Conservatory
Location: Common Room, Dorm 26, Boston Conservatory
Question: Why are you here?
Answer: Undecided.
“Well, I’m a little tired. I just got back from rehearsal, and I was in my room, hanging out by myself, but then there were all these people out here, so I thought I’d come out and be social. I chose this particular spot because I don’t like to sit on furniture the right way. I also chose this particular position because I don’t like to be— this is the most comfortable position, actually way for me to sit. And I just became acutely aware of it when I was asked, which is interesting. I wasn’t actually aware of how I was sitting until then."
“Getting my Master’s in Music in Musical Theatre. I’m graduating in May, if everything goes the way it’s supposed to. I came to graduate school because I graduated from college and didn’t know what else to do, and I got nervous about having to find a real job, so I went to more school. And now that I’m out of money, I’m not going to go to more school. So now I really don’t know what I’m going to do. This has happened to me like twice now."
“I would really like to follow around a celebrity. Like, as their assistant, and just do, like, random errands for them and get to know whatever city I’m in really well, knowing all the best coffee shops and all the best dry cleaning places and all the best perfume stores. Yes! That’s really what I want to do, is to get paid to be, like, their personal blackberry. I’m serious. I think that would be awesome."
“[I am doing musical theatre] because that career is so much more stable than anything else! Umm…. I really want to teach. I really connect really well to theatre and musical theatre, and it’s something I know a lot about, so I’d feel confident teaching it. I think that the arts are an important part of anyone’s education, so I think that my part to be able to integrate that into students’ journeys and their academia career is important."
“I’d actually really like to teach at a liberal arts college in some really small town. I went to a liberal arts college for undergrad, and I really liked that school, but any school, I think, with a more well-rounded education where students learn about philosophy and psychology and social sciences, while studying their discipline as well. So that’s a more holistic approach to being an artist."
"There’s only five Masters’ programs in the nation for musical theatre. This is the best one. It’s also the only Master of Music program, and the rest of them are Master of Fine Arts programs. So I was drawn more to this one because it focuses more on the vocal aspect, which is good I think, to have a strong foundation in that. And it’s on the East Coast, which means a direct line to New York, which is the Broadway center of life. So I wanted to be close to that, too, which is good."
“I do like Boston. It was a hard adaptation from Wisconsin, which is where I’m from, but I feel really comfortable here. It’s actually a lot smaller than we think that it is. Once you find your way around. And comparatively, I think it’s cool that it bumps right up against New York the way it is. Especially in our career, when we kind of go back and forth so much. So you can kind of see how tiny it really is and how much easier it is to work here than in New York City. But I love it! I think it’s awesome! I love my people. My Beantown."
“I actually really like it [being an RA]. No, I am being serious. I have an unhealthy obsession with being an RA. I do have a really good building though, and I feel like if I were in any other building, I might not like it so much. But I have a really good group of residents and they have really good relationships with each other, so they’re really easy to manage. They do more of my job than I do, really, like dealing with each other every day and resolving their own conflicts and picking what they want to do for programming and stuff. They tell me what to do and I facilitate it, but all the organizing and choosing…."
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