Four Questions

"Here's our first Blog topic, i.e Blog Topic #1: Please tell us all three things: 1.) Why did you decide to go to college? 2.) Why did you decide to come specifically to Converse? and 3.) What could possibly be possessing you to make you decide to study music? Oh, and let's throw in a fourth question, just for kicks: 4.) If you woke up tomorrow and couldn't do any kind of music anymore, what would you do instead? All due on your respective blogs by 11:00 pm this coming Friday, September 4. "

1) I decided to go to college because neither of my parents went to college and I saw the effect that it had on them. My mom, even though she could, is not able to get a job that she would really enjoy, partly because of her lupus, but also because she doesn't have a degree in that area. I also decided to go to college so that I could get better at playing my cello. I want to be in a really good orchestra someday and maybe do some solo performing and in order to do that I have a ways to go.

2)My orchestra teacher went to Converse and told me about it and how much she learned and how many performance opportunities that she had while going here. So I decided to come visit and I liked it and everybody was really nice. I also really liked Mr. Law. I had to decide between here and another college and in the end I picked Converse because I thought it was a really good fit over all.

3)Prokofiev, Mahler, Shostakovich, Brahms, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Holst, Beethoven, Mozart, Elgar...they possess me!! I love classical music!!! It's a really great feeling when you play a piece of music in a big orchestra and get a huge sound or if you are in a quartet and you can really tune the piece and work in a small group or if you start conquering a concerto or major piece.

4)First I would cry... a lot. Then I would start banging my head against the wall and as a result have some sporadic twitching or something like that. This would eventually effect the portion of my brain that caused my moods and I would go running around like a crazy lady. My parents would take me to a psychiatrist, but he wouldn't be able to fix me and then I would be put in a psych ward. So i guess if I couldn't spend my life playing my cello, I would spend it in the psych ward. Literally though, if I couldn't play the cello then I would probably be a psychiatrist or counselor which might land me in a psych ward trying to help people.