As a Renaissance woman, I face a major challenge: how do I weave my passion for music, art, and physics into one education, one career? Can I study the universe from the varied perspectives of a musician, an artist, and a physicist, all at once?
I started singing when I was six; my dad recorded tracks of my little sister and me in our basement “studio” for a Christmas CD. My relationship with music continued in the years following. I joined every choir I could in elementary, middle, and high school. To this day, I still drive my family insane with full-hearted solos in the shower and in my car. My life is saturated with music: Fleet Foxes, the Strokes, John Williams, Sufjan Stevens—they accompany my dreams, my essay-writing, my commutes. I admire these artists in expressing themselves by creating beautiful melodies, chilling discord. I am grateful that I have music to inspire me.
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Even before that, I have a memory of this sketch of my family stuck on the fridge for years and years. Once in high school, I threw myself into the art program and experimented with sculpture, acrylic paint (the only medium I ever hated), oil paint, collage. Through these projects, I used the artistic process to better analyze myself: my motivations, my fears, my dreams. I built a portfolio based on the exploration of identity. I love being capable of translating life into a graphite reflection, drawing portraits and creatures and still-lifes. Picking out the sanguine red, Georgia peach, and muted lavender in the New England sky and knowing how I can do it justice. Art is a part of me that I cannot do