Throughout my life, I always had a burning passion to succeed. I learned over the years that I absolutely hated failing, whether it was just a math test or simply doing something that made my family disappointed with me. I knew that to get better at everyday life tasks, I would have to grow and change. Ever since preschool, I knew the importance of getting schoolwork and tasks done. It was cause and effect; You do your work, you get good grades. Throughout middle and high school, I began to see the difficulty in doing tasks at my full potential. I would find myself getting bored with work, not wanting to do it. I knew I had to change from that point forward. It took a lot more time and effort, but I found myself getting back on track, achieving …show more content…
One of my first memories of this was when I was around the age of 6. I had a little keyboard piano that was in my room, and I always would play around on it. I remember one day I was watching an episode of "Rugrats." I was extremely fascinated with the title theme. I looked at my piano, and thought, "what if I could learn that?" It completely sparked my imagination. I worked all day, and learned it from ear on piano. After I figured it out, I was blown away from excitement. I shared it to my whole family, and had my own little concert. I knew that even though it was a lot of hard work, it was possible to get done. I learned that you have to work hard to complete your goals. I continued this determination all the way through middle and high school. When I joined band in 6th grade, I practiced my flute at least 30 minutes a day at home. I eventually started to see incredible improvement in my playing ability. My everday hard work led me to be part of life-changing groups. Just last year, I managed to get into the Floyd County Youth Symphony, IBA All Region Band as first chair flute, and IMEA Jr. All State. I grew to the point that I had gotten auditions for many solos, including one for this year's marching band show. This was all because of my continued practice and hard work
I'm tough on myself, much like most people my age. So I feel like I haven't accomplished a lot, but I have. This essay prompt really made me think and a million achievements rushed into my head. My entire high school career has been focused around band. I've made many achievements throughout my high school band experience. I've gotten nothing but gold medals at solo and ensemble competitions and always had a perfect grade in the class. Most of all, I've been building my leadership position, and now I'm a field commander. It was a tough road, but I've made it very, very far. Band is an experience that has gifted me various skills and unforgettable memories.
Growing up, my parents never expected perfection but expected that I try to accomplish my best. The effort I’ve put forth in learning has been reflected in my grades throughout my high school career. I’ve entered myself in vigorous course work such as AP Government and AP English to become well prepared for my college career, all while maintaining a 4.4 grade point average this year. Not only do I engage in AP classes, but up until this year I had no study halls. I wanted my day to be packed full of interesting classes that I would enjoy learning about. My grades and choice of classes prove the effort that I put forth in my learning. Working hard now can only pay off in the future. Learning now creates a well-rounded human being. Working to learn is why I am so dedicated to my studies now.
The article “How to Be a Success” by Malcom Gladwell speaks about how success is something that can be achieved if you put the time and work into it, and how success is not achieved overnight but rather through long hours of constant practice. His article is targeted to more than one group of individuals. The groups of individuals that his article targets are teenage students, young adults, adults, people who want to become an expert, or want to succeed in something they have an interest in and in general society. Another article also related to the success of an individual “An A+ Student Regrets His Grades” by Afraj Gill describes how in society many schools focus more on students’ grades, rather than their learning, and how a student is
I loved playing famous marches and preludes by Bach, Beethoven, or even John Adams. I'm always eager to immerse myself into the diverse and complex music that concert season holds and see what new challenges await me, whether it be all region, playing in another band, auditioning for an honor band, or auditioning for concert solos. Playing in a professional orchestra can take upwards of ten years of music education and most music students can only dream of playing in one someday, but I have already had the opportunity and pleasure of doing so. The JROTC group at my school hosted an event where the National Air Force Band would come and perform in our auditorium with a select five or six students from our high school band, handpicked by the director of the National Air Force Band director, to play with them during one of their songs, and I happened to be one of those lucky students. This would be my first time playing with a professional band and I was so excited, I could hardly contain the huge grin on my face the whole time I was on stage.We played our song and were given a certificate that stated that we were apart of the National Air Force Band. We
from that. Grades and positive feedback are motivators for me. Because of the way I push
What they have done to foster my motivation was the way they would praise me. Like for example in Dweck, Carol S. “Brainology”: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn. It claims that praise might tell them that being smart and talent is the most important thing and it’s what makes you valuable. That’s when parents or teacher make mistakes they praise them wrong and all they just do is build up children’s ego. Then when they do something wrong children think they 're less and it plays with their self-esteem. But that was not my case, though, nobody never made it seem to me like being smart and talented where the most important and that’s what made someone valuable. To my mother in other hand I always had the best advice something that she would always tell me while growing up was that being smart and talented was not something you have it’s something you earn by your hard effort and so I
In my house hold, my parents raised their kids to be the best. I remember my brother coming home and telling my mother he got a 96 on his history test. My mother replied, "What happened to the other 4 percent?" A 94 on a test was not good enough for my mother, so my brother strive harder in his schooling. Because my mother was on top of his grades, my brother focused on
To begin, I was invited to attend the Augustana Honor Band as the second chair trombone in their ensemble. Following that, I successfully auditioned for a place in the SEIBA (Southeast Iowa Bandmasters Association) Honor Band as seventh chair out of a total of twelve. The privilege of attending increased my capabilities with the trombone and gave a refreshing insight into practicing. Appreciation grew, and just this last week I joined in a combo with one of our school's jazz choirs, Jazz Etc., to receive a second place prize in the state jazz choir championships.
This was mainly a result of experiencing sudden freedom, going from a nurturing private school environment to a college environment. I had to adapt to the situation and although at the time I maybe didn’t do as well in the first year, I have grown as an individual and improved my focus and determination within the second year. I now set myself weekly targets and pride myself in doing my work to a very high standard. I also set myself personal targets and enjoy going to the gym daily which has helped me maintain a positive mental attitude.
“It looks so easy when you do it.” My family and friends would throw their hands up in frustration. I chuckle and confidently take a seat from them. I take a look at a dizzying array of black and white keys that stumped them, and yet, give me the sense of familiarity and wonder. With a stroke of my fingers, a random cacophony starts fitting into a pleasing, harmonious tune on the piano.
Hutchins Application 1. When I was younger, I learned piano as my first instrument because piano provides basic musical knowledge for other instruments that I may have wanted to learn in the future. Moreover, I really enjoyed the piano’s timbre and versatility as an instrument. I was very excited to pick up my first instrument. However, I soon came to realize that I had no knack for piano whatsoever.
On a day of that year, my mom took me to a instrument store. That store was large, and I ran around to find something fun. As I ran by a practice room, all a sudden, I heard a beautiful piano piece that came out from there. At that time, that piece of music interested me so much that I, a 3 years old kid, was easily motivated by that. I wanted to learn music.
But freshmen year of high school, it challenged and affected my flute experience greatly. I was given the opportunity to become first chair through an
In the past years when I lived in Minnesota, I was an active member of the drama club, and participated in various plays as both a crew member and an actor. My last year in Minnesota I decided to step up and become a stage manager, at the end of the year I ended up winning an award for having good leadership skills along with my positive interactions with my team members. I took band back in elementary school, but starting high school I joined the choir for 3
On a personal note, I have played the piano for about 8 years, and it has opened doors for...