Towards the end of middle school, I had many people tell me that they thought I would be a great music therapist. After more than one person had told me this, I began to look into the field of music therapy. I discovered that the school of my dreams, USC, did not have music therapy as a major at the time. I found out about colleges in the area that did have music therapy such as Converse, Charleston Southern, East Carolina, and Appalachian State. This may sound silly, but I looked at USC's website every few months to see if they had added the music therapy major to their School of Music. At the end of tenth grade, USC still had not added it to their majors, and at that point I pretty much gave up on going to USC for music therapy. I knew that I did not want to go out of state for college because my family is so close and because I would lose my state scholarships, and CSU did not sound very appealing to me personally. So that left my audition options to Converse for music therapy and USC for music education. I wanted to major in music therapy, but really wanted to stay in Columbia and go to USC. Obviously this caused some conflict in my decisions. Honestly, being close to home was more important to me than being able to major in what I wanted.
Even though I wanted to stay close to home, I still auditioned for Converse in January of this year. The day of my audition, while I was in a practice room practicing my audition pieces, I felt this feeling that I was where I needed to be. I hated this feeling though. I was in a serious relationship, and am now engaged, and could not imagine being away from him and the rest of our families. A few months later, I auditioned at USC and did not have near as good of an experience as I did at Converse. Immediately, my college decision had been made just based off of a feeling (the scholarships did not hurt either).
Then I knew that I had to do what I felt was right even though it was not what I had wanted only months prior. I am so glad that I chose Converse, because I have already made so many friends, love the professors, and just love the college and environment as a whole. I cannot wait to see what Converse has in my future and where I will go in life from here.
If I were a muppet I would want to be kinda goofy and silly. I've never watched the muppets so I do not know the characters. I know, that's crazy to have grown up i the nineties and never have watched the muppets. My goofy silly muppet character would definitely play the banjo though.
