I have encountered numerous experiences that have played an important role in shaping who I am today and my spirations for my future. As a young child, I loved to sing, listening to music and spent a majority of my time creating things. I was an imaginative kid who wrote song lyrics about the thoughts inside my head. My passion for music has extended throughout my life and will surely continue to expand into my future. In my early years, my family and I relocated temporarily throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Every time I was forced to leave, I was devastated. During those times, I did not grasp why, I could not grasp why we even had to move. Not until I moved to my current home in Jackson, New Jersey, did I understand why. My father
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Growing up in a Christian family, my family attended and still attend a Methodist church 5 minutes away from my grandmother’s home. The current choir director there has had a great influence on me concerning my passion for music and singing and has helped me overcome stage nervousness fairly well. She as my mentor inspires me to do better with each rehearsal, each repetition, each performance. My choir experience in middle school was beneficial as well in continuing music. I have improved so much from then and only wish I could have done more to learn an instrument. Only in my later 9th grade school year did I become more focused on that aspect of music, and I will never regret …show more content…
Music is important to me in that I learned to step outside of my comfort zone and expose myself to others in a way that I can’t explain. Through music I have learned to accept challenges, work on the spot, and has influenced my risk-taking and daring personality academically and socially. Taking 4 AP’s this year have been incredibly beneficial to me, despite the various “what was I thinking” episodes of stress and failure. I would not trade any of it for the world and I am so thankful to have been given the opportunity to challenge myself. I believe that most of my academic success is due to the fact that I have a genuine drive to learn material and avoid taking the easy road. Growing up in poverty, I definitely have motivation to educate myself as much as I can, but I do not plan on success for myself. I want to be successful for my mom, my sister, and my father, They have all tried their best to care about me and they keep me going. My mom is a major role model for me regarding academics, as she is one of the smartest people I know. My older sister, being mentally disadvantaged, motivates me to work for her so she can be in a better place than where she is now. For my father, I want to show him that he was not a
Growing up in a Christian family, my family attended and still attend a Methodist church 5 minutes away from my grandmother’s home. The current choir director there has had a great influence on me concerning my passion for music and singing and has helped me overcome stage nervousness fairly well. She as my mentor inspires me to do better with each rehearsal, each repetition, each performance. My choir experience in middle school was beneficial as well in continuing music. I have improved so much from then and only wish I could have done more to learn an instrument. Only in my later 9th grade school year did I become more focused on that aspect of music, and I will never regret …show more content…
Music is important to me in that I learned to step outside of my comfort zone and expose myself to others in a way that I can’t explain. Through music I have learned to accept challenges, work on the spot, and has influenced my risk-taking and daring personality academically and socially. Taking 4 AP’s this year have been incredibly beneficial to me, despite the various “what was I thinking” episodes of stress and failure. I would not trade any of it for the world and I am so thankful to have been given the opportunity to challenge myself. I believe that most of my academic success is due to the fact that I have a genuine drive to learn material and avoid taking the easy road. Growing up in poverty, I definitely have motivation to educate myself as much as I can, but I do not plan on success for myself. I want to be successful for my mom, my sister, and my father, They have all tried their best to care about me and they keep me going. My mom is a major role model for me regarding academics, as she is one of the smartest people I know. My older sister, being mentally disadvantaged, motivates me to work for her so she can be in a better place than where she is now. For my father, I want to show him that he was not a