Today is the day!:)

Today is the day that I have been waiting sooooo long for: graduation!:) It has felt like it would never get here and here it is! It's been a very long journey. After high school I got a scholarship in music to attend Jacksonville State University. All of my friends were going there, they have one of the best music depts in the southeast, and they were going to foot the bill for me to go. Win/Win situation right? Unfortunately, I never really wanted to be a band director-I wanted to major in music performance. They told me that they were trying to bring the music performance degree back-that I should declare general music as my major and the performance degree would just be a few more ensembles, applieds, and recitals. No big deal. I waited for a year and still no performance degree. I practiced really hard-I was usually in the practice room for about 8 hours a day. I played in 5 ensembles and took applied (which is individual lessons with a professor on your instrument/voice). I talked with my applied professor about this and told him that I wanted to change my degree maybe to interior design or meteorology. He told me that I would be making a mistake-that he really thought that I should stay in performance-that if JSU wouldn't get that degree that he would help me prepare to audition for another school. I stuck it out. The weight on my shoulders just kept getting heavier and heavier. I didn't want to got through the pain of transferring. Another year later I switched my degree to Art with a concentration in graphic design. It was one of the best decisions that I have ever made and I have never looked back on it. The moment that I declared Art as my major the world was lifted off of my shoulders. I would one day still like to pursue something in music performance-there is nothing better than the adrenaline rush that you get from a performance. It's what I do-it's what I love. My senior show project for art was dedicated to music. I can't believe that it is all over now. It seemed like such a long time--- yet looking back it doesn't seem that long at all. I'm going to let Kendall use my camera at graduation-so I'll post pictures of the night later!:)