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I was working on my essay for Berklee earlier and I was thinking about why I wanted to go there so much more than any other school. I first thought "it's all musicians" which is more or less the reason, but the more I thought about it, I think that would make it the most difficult school for me to go to, which is why I want to go. At CCA I can be "that guy who plays the bass" or whatever people think when they see me or something. But if I go to Berklee, a school of nothing but musicians I can't be "that guy who plays the bass" because there will be many of those. To succeed in that environment I would have to be "that guy who does (this), (this), and (this) really well and sounds like (this)". I really want to decide what direction I want to go with my music because I can't succeed just doing what I'm doing now. I need to "brand" myself I guess.
The only way to really be that person musically is to figure out who I want to be non-musically. Going back to my old live journal and looking at it up through now, I see how much I've changed. I've changed so much in just a few years, and even more so if I look back on who I was when I was "growing up".
Think about this. When you go off to college (if it's out of state primarily) no one knows who you are. Who you were throughout high school and before does not matter. All people will know you as is who you are at that moment. No one will know what type of clothes you wore, what music you listened to, how you acted, or anything else about you before that moment. Going away to college seems almost like re-starting your life or starting a new "chapter" of it. You can start over and be who ever you want to be. Is who you are now the person you want people to know when they first meet you in your "new life/chapter", or are there things you want to change?
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The only way to really be that person musically is to figure out who I want to be non-musically. Going back to my old live journal and looking at it up through now, I see how much I've changed. I've changed so much in just a few years, and even more so if I look back on who I was when I was "growing up".
Think about this. When you go off to college (if it's out of state primarily) no one knows who you are. Who you were throughout high school and before does not matter. All people will know you as is who you are at that moment. No one will know what type of clothes you wore, what music you listened to, how you acted, or anything else about you before that moment. Going away to college seems almost like re-starting your life or starting a new "chapter" of it. You can start over and be who ever you want to be. Is who you are now the person you want people to know when they first meet you in your "new life/chapter", or are there things you want to change?
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