I am, as of a December 2015, a third year participating member of the Southern Pride Marching Band here at Georgia Southern University. Music and the performing arts plays a huge role in my life, as it has given me the opportunity to travel and perform at various venues around the country. I have also met most of my closest friends through music, sharing experiences that I will cherish for years to come. Since my freshman year of high school, my skill as a percussionist has continued to grow. This past summer, in fact, I was presented with opportunity to march with Alliance Drum and Bugle Corps.
I know I could be a Drum Major because of my passion for band and my ability to lead. Ever since I first picked up a trumpet in fifth grade, I realized that I have a passion of music. The joy of not only learning the language, but picking up a horn and playing it was an experience unmatched by anything else. Fast Forward four years to my first band camp, both nerve racking and electrifyingly exciting. While music rehearsal happened and I felt excited for the coming four years, nothing could compare to the first day of marching, taught by Anna, Connor, and Jake.
I was sitting on the bench in the last inning of our fourth game wondering if I was ever going to get to play when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to see my coach gazing down at me. He gave me a sly grin and said, "get a helmet, you 're on deck. " I had to swallow my shock. I jumped up and hurried over to the on deck circle.
Marching band; copious amounts of people scoff at the sound of those words. I often hear students commenting on how easy marching band is, how we don’t train like the football players do. At Anderson High School, that’s not the case, the marching band trains for just as long. As a band of over 125 individuals, it takes determination, pride, and confidence to achieve the goals we have set forth to accomplish. As a leader of the saxophone section, I know what it’s like to face failure, to overcome and turn it into success and to march on with confidence.
To the average person, the high school marching band is nothing more than a bunch of geeks that play during half time at the football games or monopolize the benches by the band hall, but to me, it is so much more. To me it is a family, a safe haven, a creative outlet, a home. I have been involved in marching band for three years, going on four, and I wouldn 't trade the experience for anything. When I entered high school as a scared and awkward freshman, I immediately had three hundred people that I could rely on. The program quickly became like a second home to me and opened up a whole new path in my life.
For my Diverse Field Experience this semester, I spent fifteen hours at the Mclean County Juvenile Detention Center. This particular center was occupied by about 8-14 juveniles at a time, all depending on court dates and occupancy of other nearby detention centers. This center usually had 3 staff members working the shift every time I went, which was seven to nine on weekday afternoons. I was intrigued to go to at this time because I thought it would be the time of the day were the juveniles had no school work or other obligations to do while I was there. I wanted to see what they liked to do in the free time before bed, the only stipulation being mandatory snack time at eight pm.
It was late at night when I ran. There was police sirens everywhere around the prison yard .I tried finding a safe place back home but there wasn’t any. All I could do is run and hide.
It happened on June 11, 2015. My lacrosse team won our regional quarter final game the previous day—I scored my personal best of five goals and was named Player of the Game. As a reward for the win, my coach gave us a three hour practice the next day that was strictly conditioning—leaving the seniors 30 minutes to go home, shower, change, and drive to our Senior Dinner at Bowdoin College. I raced home from practice, my sweat sticking to the car leather seats, music blasting, and the wind in my hair. I had the future on my mind: playoffs, graduation, summer, and college.
Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation, title and author at the beginning of your essay. “It 's not a big thing, but I guess it 's true — big things are often just small things that are noticed.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger I don’t know his name.
“You only fail when you stop trying.” It is early in my seventh grade year. I play trumpet in and out of school. Marching band is one of my favorite types of musical performances. My friends and my sister have also been in band and enjoyed it for a couple years as well.
But in my haste I realized there was something that I had forgotten. Something that I have always done before while in a public restroom. I had forgotten to check for toilet paper. It was times like this that I would smack the palm of my head to my forehead. But the truth is, forgetting to check for toilet paper, for your keys before you get out of the car, or why you came in the room in the first place.
Although, as a member of JV, I was responsible for transporting props at competitions, I witnessed the band grow and improve every performance. I also had the opportunity to march at football games and was able to be with my friends in the stands. The community was made apparent when performing cadences and stand-tunes, as well as awards announcements at competitions. Even though I was in JV, I was motivated to continue marching band throughout high
The person who I am working with is a 29 year-old Caucasian female. She is single with no children. She graduated from college with a Bachelor 's in psychology. Currently she is attending graduate school full time, and works part time for the local city in the sporting events. She is the eldest child in her family, and has one brother and sister.
Is It Me Amber White Argosy University A personal statement is a technique in which you somewhat examine yourself in determination to comprehend and gifts and weaknesses. Your dislikes, likes, habits, attitudes, or behaviors can be initiate throughout this development. You can use the discoveries to your benefit by accepting or changing strengths and weaknesses. I plan on using this time to improve my own skills to develop a better student and find accomplishment in receiving my Masters at Argosy University.
My BIST placement was at Highland Pines School, a special needs school. I was in their gym class and in their pool classroom. I was giving the opportunity many times to run gym class by myself, take attendance, do paperwork, organize practices and help run slideshows for assemblies. I was able to get a great idea of what it would be like to be a physical education teacher for special needs students. I learned many things about the work world from my experience.
