… way into my music. Shaping a discordant sound into expressive music has been a lengthy, laborious, but ultimately rewarding process. I was switched from violin to viola by Melba Sandberg, a brusque, no-nonsense conductor at the New England Conservatory.…

… not know where I want to go to school next year or what I want to major in. Sometimes I wonder if I want to go to school at all. The problem is not that I have had all these decisions thrown at me suddenly or unexpectedly, it is that I have put…

… day at a new school, faces I'd never seen greeted me - different faces from what I was used to. First, they all belonged to girls (something I was definitely not used to). Second, they were all one color, white. At first, it didn't phase me. I just…

… be an astronaut Wanna sail the seas Just like a sailor But it's not the end of the world So baby don't get upset It's just a little regret Less than a year left of high school, then four years of college to study who knows what,…

… shiny wall. As we got closer are steps were slower. We moved with hesitation. My heart began to beat faster, and I felt an ache in the pit of my stomach. My father squeezed my hand as we approached a statue of three men cast in bronze. The Vietnam…

… my data points in order to linearize the function. He tells me to find a pattern in the points and to cube them, or take the square root, in order to plot the points in a straight line. If the graph isn't linear, he says, we can't understand what it…

… called change. Change occurs in many different forms and is carried out in many different ways. However, just recently, I have come to the realization that change can be the deepest of all subjects. I always assumed that change occured when you…

… Token Black Guy." I thought of this term for my role after viewing an episode of Scrubs on TV. I started thinking about the small number of black students at my school. It is something I have always turned a blind eye to. I've never really been…

… in an incredibly hard task. Although as the years go by it becomes easier whith every relationship that goes by. Considering now I'm twenty and if I knew when I was sixteen what I know now, I probably could have saved myself from a lot of aggravatio…

… children have pets, I could not convince my parents into allowing me to have one until my pre teens. I could not have been happier the day my family went to the pound and I picked out my dog Skippy. Skippy loved to run and he was loyal to me and…