My Senior Project Essay

My senior project is about how music affects the brain in a positive matter especially those that have diseases. I chose this project because I listen to music all the time, it became a part of my life. My idea for service learning was to see how music affects people that have dementia. My mentors were Amadee Castenell, Laetitia Brundage and Alison Albino. I spent ten hours observing them on what they did and how the residents of the homes that they went to reacted to the music and activities that the music therapists did. I had a great time while I was observing because many of the residents moods, improved significantly because of the music. My favorite song was a “Bushel and Peck” because it seemed to get the most out of all the reminders …show more content…
Writing the paper was hard because I had lot to say but I did not know how to translate it onto the paper. One major problem about my project is that i could not find a mentor who could help me because many of the labs were full, and did not want to take me because they did not want to exceed the amount of assistants in the lab. The way I managed time is I always did something extra on the day to get work done for my senior project so that on days when I did not have a sufficient amount of homework I would work on senior project. That's what I did for everything as I learned how to balance working, school and playing sports. Doing a project, with this magnitude I learned that it is very important to work with the people’s schedule especially my mentors, as they have a busy schedule and many places to go to and work. Being able to work with my mentors was very easy as they wanted to help me with anything that I needed. My original goals were not completed as I had to change many of them. My new goals was to show that music is very essential to lives with people of dementia. My goals changed because my original idea for the service learning part was not able to be completed since I did not find a mentor with the expertise I