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　Wolfgang Mozart’s father was a good musician and when his daughter was a schoolgirl, the father tool pains to teach her to play classical pieces on the piano. Wolfgang, not yet four years old, loved to listen to his sister’s practice.

　　One day, he asked to be allowed to play the piece his sister had been practising. But the request was turned down as a joke, for he was too young to be taken seriously. After tea that evening,the father heard the piece being played upstairs, better mastered than ever.. He was commenting on the progress made by his daughter when he suddenly realized that at the moment the girl was washing pots in the kitchen. He and his wife crept upstairs and, to their great amazement, found it was little Wolfgang who was playing the piece in the darkness.

3. Picking a major before you’ve taken at least two advanced courses in the field. It’s tempting to pick a major just on the basis of an intro course or two that you really liked. But it’s important to take a sampling of upper division or advanced courses before committing to a major. In many fields, the work at that level is more challenging and also, sometimes, different in approach, methodology, or complexity than in the watered-down intro courses designed to service the university as a whole. So, before signing on the dotted line, take two or three courses, from different professors, that start with a high number (300, 400, 3000, 4000, or whatever it is at your school)。