Assignment 1-Garrett

Hi, my name is Garrett.  Throughout my life I have always loved music. I haven’t always played an instrument well or been the one that went to all the concerts (in fact I have been only to one in my life), yet I always have thoroughly enjoyed a certain amount of empathy with many songs.  When looking back to childhood I don’t remember playing board games with my family. What I do remember playing is “What’s the name of the song and who sings it”. Almost every family road trip, drive to grocery store, or ride to school was filled with this game, once a song came on the radio we all yelled out our best guesses. Once we all had given our suggestions, our residential master of the song (my dad) would tell us what the song really was and who sang it. If you were really lucky, a rare thing would occur, you would know a song and artist who had stumped dad; and this is how you knew you won the game. I don’t mind listening to most genres of music but usually when I pick its classic rock.  My great appreciation of music steered me to start playing the guitar a year or two back. Creating music is truly a unique experience.

This year in school I hope to accomplish many things: I plan on doing my best when it comes to school, scoring well on my ACT and AP exams, and hopefully completing my Eagle Scout rank in boy scouts.  When it comes to my best in school, I realize I have a lot to live up to. Both my sisters did extremely well in high school and although I am very proud of both of them and where their lives are headed I realize to be on par with them my feet would still have to grow quite a bit. This is why when examining my goals for grades I simply want to do my best. That’s all anyone can ask for.  The most meaningful thing that happened to me this summer was both of my sisters leaving for college. This created a certain realization that everything in my life has already begun to change, that I was already on the path to adulthood.  If I could have any superpower I would want to be able to travel through and freeze time ; That way I would have more time for homework and be able to go buy stock in Microsoft when it was still outrageously cheap. 

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