I came to Grant in the middle of freshmen year. I was scared and shy, and pretty angry. I hadn’t wanted to move in the first place, and this new school didn’t even have open campus lunch! However, I learned that you can't really have preconceived notions about anything- especially if you're biased against it. The choir program, and the Performing Arts Society in general- has broadened my perspective on a variety of things, as well as increased my personal confidence. I wasn’t really one for putting myself out there, when I first came here. At first, it was because I was sure I’d be moving back to Mundelein in a matter of days. I was delusional, pretty much. After my first three months, though, it was clarified that I was never going to go back to Mundelein, so I started to join some extra curriculars. Of course, the first thing that I went to was choir and theatre. Choir was where I did my first performs in front of someone else. Scale tests. This was where you had to get in front of the entire choir and do scales, and then get critiqued by the teacher, right then and there. Too flat, too …show more content…
I really was the worst. My freshmen year, I was too scared to move. I just stood still and sang, hardly moving my mouth. However, as the years progressed, my auditioning steadily got better and better. This past year, my auditioning has been the best ever. I auditioned for the musical last year, and got a featured role. I auditioned for my first fal play this year, and got one of the only female roles in the entire script. I auditioned this year and got exactly the part that I wanted. I even auditioned for a college theatre program, and got in! I didn’t choose to go to that school, but it was still very flattering to see how much they wanted me. I have no doubt that when I get to college, and to the professional theatre world, my auditioning will get better and better.
Coming to college as an adult, we have many expectations and preconceptions of what college will or will not be. The expectations we have can influence our college life for the better or the worse. My experience since starting college has been an interesting one. People have misconceptions about college because they do not know what to expect. After doing some research, I have concluded that there are three major factors that are often misunderstood about college life. The first is the financial aspect of college. Second, is the relationship between the professors and students. Third is time management. These three factors play an important role in why people are afraid to go down the path to college.
As a shy, reserved student, I found myself blossoming through the stage. I fell in love with the stage and auditioned for the middle school's play, A Christmas Carol. Fortunately, I was casted in the performance. I loved the experience so much that I auditioned for the next year's play and musical and got a part in those as well. The more time I spent on stage, the more confident I became. I felt like the stage was where I belonged. I had a passion for theater that began to distinguish like a flame when I entered high school.
It was the winter of 2014 when my mother forced me to go to The Corner Health Center Theatre Troupe. I was livid, and acting at the time was something that I was terrified of. I felt as if I was a bird being pushed from the nest too early. I knew there was no possible way that I could be able to: one,talk to strangers, two, learn a script,
I’m raised in an environment filled with negative stereotypes, high dropout rates, fewer resources, and low expectations. As a Mexican American from the San Fernando Valley, educational opportunities do not come often. In middle school it massed into my head that going to college is my way towards success. Soon it became the only option for me and as a result, I joined Project Grad to begin my journey towards college. They introduced me to the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference during my junior year. After applying and attending, the conference eliminated the label that Latinos are not college material. Subsequently, I grabbed as many opportunities as I could. In my junior my school did not put me in any AP classes. Therefore, I went to go
Returning back to school was a very natural decision for me. It seemed to be the next logical step in my personal and career goals. My ultimate goal is to be happy and healthy and be a good provider and role model. With that set aside for now, my next goal is to be financially stable and able to provide for my family in ways that my family was not able to provide for me. I definitely expect to work for what I want and earn every bit of it. The most recent motivator was that my company was willing to contribute a huge chunk of the yearly tuition, therefore removing some financial burden. This makes me feel like they truly care about my future and they really want to see me succeed.
My ninth grade year is the first time I started the audition process for the Texas All-State Choir and only made it through the first round of districts. The summer of 2014 I was determined to make it farther since I just had made the varsity choir at my high school. In July I went to Baylor University for a week and learned all the music we were auditioning and also furthered my skills and techniques. Once school started I went to after school practices every day with my choir directors for an hour, then went home and practiced by myself for another hour, and went to voice lessons with my singing coach once a week. I knew by doing so, I would be prepared.
I recently found a list of goals that I had written 20 years ago. Most of the goals were realistic and I was able to achieve them. While I was checking the items off my list that I accomplished, there was one that I have debated about for many years—returning to school to earn a degree. Returning to school has always been achievable; however, as each year of my life sped by and I got older, I always came up with more and more excuses as to why I should not return to school. One day I received a course catalog in the mail showing online classes at the college. I decide that an online class would be the first step to my future. I am so grateful for the first day of that class. All the excuses and delays regarding returning to school
To begin, I am eager to receive critique and assistance regarding my writing. My hope is to develop into the best writer I can be. Having said that, fearful struck me the moment I registered for this course. Fearing that I would be expected to write essays, papers and that I would fall short in my abilities. Writing a narrative essay, reflective essay, or researching material for a persuasive essay is not something I had done. Fortunately, soon realizing that this is why I am returning to college. English Composition specifically, will guide me through the information that I need to study to become the best writer I can be. Receiving guidance is a necessary part of life, and in college, if I want to develop my skills, receiving analyzes and assistance is essential to my growth. Falling short is an opportunity to fix what is wrong. So my enthusiasm is in learning everything I possibly can to aid in my success.
I joined crew and painted sets, worked the curtains, helped the prop master, and was a stage hand. I did not audition until the fall of my junior year for A Christmas Carol. I received the part of the Ghost of Christmas Future and caroler. Then in the spring I auditioned and was given the role of Emily Parrish in Phantom of the Soap Opera the Musical. I also started auditioning for shows at Muncie Civic Theatre and got into The Little Mermaid Jr. and Once on this Island Jr. both in which I was chorus. Each time I stepped on that stage I experienced the same thrill. The same rush of jittery ecstasy that I experienced for Romeo and Juliet. I was addicted.
I made the decision to go back to school for many different reasons. I saw it as an opportunity to continue my education, potentially make more money in my career and prove to myself that I could accomplish this goal. Even after, placing this personal goal on hold for the past ten years, having three children and working. I knew this would definitely help me in the long run. It has always been dream of mine to graduate from college. To do what only two of my family members before me have done. Growing up in Compton, California. College wasn't an option for most, however I was fortunate enough to have parents who believed in me and my sisters and really pushed us to continue to further our education. I believe moving forward if I stay persistent
I have always had a passion to become an elementary school teacher; to do this I knew I would have got to go back to college to earn my degree. As I considered returning to school, I had thoughts of how I would do this there were so many events that could go wrong including not passing my classes. In wanting to return to school as an older student and after being out of school so long I would be obliged to compete with students that were freshly graduated from high school and were at least half my age. Returning to school at this point in my life would need a great deal of time on my behalf and how was I going to do this, I have a husband who has poor health issues from serving our county, having to work two jobs not to even mention the rest of my family that needed me to. Would I have the time required to put into college to keep up acceptable grades I need to complete my degree. Some say it is hard to return to college after being out, but after I talked with some friends and family I knew I had an
My summer went a little like how every teenager in America’s summer goes. Avoiding sunlight at all costs and pressing the ‘next episode’ button on netflix. The exception of this is the most marvelous thing that comes after ice cream and books. Theatre camp. I can’t begin to describe how it feels to perform in musicals in front of thousands of people. performing is taking all these people’s emotions and changing them with scenes and musical numbers. Then when you see the red velvet curtains close it feels like you're on the top of the world. Now the thing is directors don’t cast based on how you feel about the musical; they cast on your singing and acting abilities which i don’t have much of. That is how I ended up at theatre camp.
My previous elementary schools had no music program, so I did not expect anything different from the new school. But, I was in for a shock. I met Ms, Nina Wilkinson in the first 3 weeks of school. I think it is because I play the violin, and ultimately met Ms. Wilkinson are two of the major reasons I became who I am now. I played for her the piece I was learning from Suzuki book 4, and I was shaking with nerves, but I think Ms. Wilkinson saw something in me, and put me in the school orchestra, second chair. I was stunned. Never before have I ever been in first violin; I was always in second. This gave me a huge confidence boost. I was always pretty shy, and I rarely spoke more than a sentence all at once. But, during orchestra when Ms. Wilkinson conducted, she would tell me good job or well done and that changed me. I became more confident in my talents and self. I think my time in that school orchestra was a powerful influence on
Moving away from home has been one of the biggest challenges that I have had to face so far in the eighteen years of my life. Moving from my home town to the collge dorm was a difficult transition that was necessary for growing up both mentally and physically as an individual. The little more than five hundred miles that separates me from my friends and family has allowed me to become the person I am today, and the distance allows me to grow and become more familiar with things that are a whole new experience for me. One of the many new things that I have had to deal with was making new friends in my environment.
Because I fell deeply in love with performing at an early age, my having to face the challenge of auditions is not difficult to imagine. In first grade, there was no audition, as my classmates would raise their hands for the parts that they wanted as my teacher called them off of a list. I always received a role in the shows that I auditioned for, since the program that C.G.P.A.C. offered cost money, and roles in shows put on through an elementary school or a high school are not difficult to get. In middle school, I had worked my way up in terms of the sizes of the roles that I received. I went from ensemble in Once Upon a Mattress to the Milkmaid in Beauty