Okay, let's get a few quickie basics out of the way before I begin to elaborate on my assignment. My name is Julia Pitts, I'm from Lexington, South Carolina, and I'm a freshman vocal performance major at Converse College (aka Connie Land).
I always knew I was going to go to college. Education's been pretty important to me my whole life, even though I've hated school with a deep burning passion for a long time. My mommy is an educator, and she's always pushed me to keep going through school and to continue, no matter how much it royally sucks.
I honestly wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my higher education until I realized in August of my senior year "Oh crap! Compulsory education ends in a few months!", so I honestly had no idea where to start. To be honest, I hadn't really considered music as a course of study until much later. The original plan was to be a history major (considering that was the only school subject I could tolerate at the time), and go on to be a high school history teacher.
By November, I had applied to about 6 colleges, and hadn't heard back from a single one. I had the Converse application just sitting there on my desk, and it hadn't even been touched, I never considered it to be an option.
I've always know about Converse. I can remember driving by the campus when I was tiny and saying that there was where I wanted to go to college. As I got older, the idea of an all women's college obviously got less appealing as the boys lost their cooties and started to be interesting, and that attitude stuck with me through high school until my senior year.
January rolled around, and I still hadn't heard from any of my schools, so I finally caved and applied to Converse out of desperation (I mean, the application was free and all, so no harm, right?). Less than two weeks later and BAM!: acceptance letter. Kudos to Converse for that by the way, USC took over 6 months to send me anything.
Anyway, I told my choir conductor, Hal MacIntosh, that I had been accepted into Converse, and he told me about the Petrie School and how fabulous it was, and it brought up memories of when I was younger. At that age when everyone has their unrealistic dreams of being a princess or a football player, I wanted to be an opera singer. As I went through school and told people that, I had gotten laughed at so much that by high school, I had given up. Regardless, I thought it'd be worth an audition to see how unrealistic it really was.
Surprise! I got in! At this point though, I had offers into the history departments at every school I had applied to, including a full ride to the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. So I had a decision to make: go with something tolerable, or my dream. I took a leap of faith and sent in my deposit to Converse in April.
Alrighty, my ramble-y story of how all of this came to be is complete.
Real quick: I would most definitely be Miss Piggy because she is fabulous, as I would like to be. ^_^
Welcome to Converse and our SSS class, Julia! I enjoyed reading your blog--you're good at telling stories. One random thought--if you ever decide you might like to double-major in music and history, come talk to me. There are ways of making that happen....
ReplyDeleteAs to the blog, you have a nice, fluid writing style. Make sure you really pay attention to your punctuation, though--it is possible to maintain your informal style and still get all the punctuation correct. (It's not horrible, by the way--I'm just picky.)
And Yea! for Miss Piggy. My daughter is currently engrossed in my husband's childhood copy of "Miss Piggy's Guide to Life." I can only imagine what she's learning....
And again, Welcome!