Barrett CaseEssay Preview: Barrett CaseReport this essayHenry McAlindon once said, “Do not follow where the path may lead. “Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” With those words said, my reason for applying to be a Stephenson High School drum major is to not follow someone elses path, but to create my own and allow other individuals to follow it and exceed. Ive got a great start at creating my path by serving as tuba section leader for the 2011-2012 school year. Throughout the year, I have experienced many challenges but conquered them just as a leader is supposed to do. Overall, I enjoyed teaching and mingling with new and old faces in my section. They taught me a lot of things that helped me not only become a better leader, but a better person. Being section leader, I also contributed a lot to my section. From motivating members of my section while running the track at summer band camp to helping someone learn all 12 major scales, I have been a motivator while serving as a leader of the tuba section.
During the school year, I discovered many strengths as well as weaknesses in the tuba section. One strength that we have is unity. Most of the time, we are all on one accord from the music all the way to the field, making perfect diagonals. While having unity, we also have our weaknesses as any other section does. One weakness we have is that some members of our section tend to have slight discipline problems. Even though we have improved tremendously on discipline, there still are some very small problems that still need to be fixed but not by me, but by individuals outside of the band room. Specific goals for my section are to keep improving on discipline and to keep improving on individual sounds in the section. Solutions to these goals are to engage in more individual practice sessions and to just simply follow directions given by our directors.
Individually, I am blessed to have many strengths. One of my strengths is the ability to work extremely hard and the ability to never give up. If I dont accomplish a goal the first time, I will be guaranteed to work twice as the next time around. Another strength I have is the ability get along with multiple personalities. Any person you shall throw at me, I will get along with the person. Being able to understand and to “pick up” objectives swiftly is also one of my strengths. I understand that drum majors are held responsible to accomplish many tasks, but with my team work skills, I can get the job done. Despite all my strengths, I also have set goals for my personal life. One goal would have to be completing four or more years of college. Not many members of my family went to or completed college.
I have also experienced a lot of stress when it comes to the way I am raised. I will not go through a difficult time but eventually I will feel like I’m in constant need. That’s because I spend time in high school. As soon as I’m out of high school I go and go to school with a ton of stress and I’m not sure what’s going to happen next. Maybe I’ll graduate to college before I have any experience at all, but that’s for other people to determine.
My team will be better at finding common ground between myself in the task force and the person I have with for the rest of this day. I’m not going to get a job but I have good family and friends and we’re going to learn from each other. Not only is my team a great force in that regard but I’m really excited for them in my first year of college. They will learn a lot from me, and I’m really excited for the next generation.
There are a lot of people out there who want to join my new team. While there are many different organizations around the world, not all of them are going to be the same. I’m hoping that the next group of people joining the new team will meet each other and really share their experiences and experiences with us.
I feel that each of these new groups will create a team with greater value and commitment and potential for success and more of what I think our new team may be able to accomplish and share with its potential.
“For me, playing with each of the groups was a wonderful moment in my life. I was just so excited to get to work with my little sister and she was really fun and I went on a really fun little rollercoaster with them. They wanted to help and it was a really joyous experience, and of course having their guidance, leadership, and support was just another great feeling.
From my first day of basketball, my teammates at the North Carolina Basketball Center were amazing. It was a fun experience in a place so young, and they played a really great game with a really good team, but ultimately that’s up to the team, and I knew from my own career path that it was going to be hard to find a good group of basketball players the right way. One thing that has always stuck with me is that people want to be there for them.