College Admissions Essay-Music To The Ears

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Music to the Ears
If you mess up just once in your life, it could affect your future. In the ninth grade, I came close to ending my music career by simply dropping out from the choir program in anger of not getting into my choir of choice. But if I went through with this choice, I would have felt empty. With the help of my brother who was a senior and has been in the program all four years, I was not only put in my choir of choice later that week from exemplifying stellar job work, but also continuing the beginning of my musical journey. I am now a vocalist who has been happily singing in a choir for four years. This is my first, self-taught and longest course I have ever taken.
Music has become the starting point in all of my studies. Ever
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It has taught me the importance of order and balance. If I am leading a group at any task, I can recognize the group's ability and how strong they can be if they all put in one hundred percent of their effort into it. The most important task of the leader is to be able to explain, demonstrate, guide, and enable, which reveals the group's maximum potential. With improvement and balance comes success, and music taught me all of the vertues. The bonds I have made within the choral program at my school have all made it through the intense stress of the years. These bonds came to be my friends later on and still are today. I thank all of my teachers, friends and family for creating the environments that gave me these friendships and learning experiences. My musical haven in and away from home, is in the world of composers, Harmonies, and possibilities.This safe space has shaped my character and without it, my life would not be half as good as it is today. So far the best decision of my life was staying with the choir program for as long as I could. If my lips are not singing everyday, my heart is because the journey from my music has already been wonderful. Although I hope to go into a field of firefighting, I love that I still have much to learn from, and about, the world of

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