Obama, the reformer and champion of the lower and middle classes. Romney, the shrewd businessman with a keen plan for a balanced budget.
“I can improve the economy…I will lower taxes…I will create jobs…”Both presidential candidates proclaim their plans if elected president. Both candidates, with the help of their loyal supporters, focus their eyes on becoming the president of the United States...
As soon as I stepped outside of the Alumni Memorial Building during my recent tour I knew that I would have to rethink my previous impressions of the campus. My past exposure to Lehigh consisted of running around Goodman Campus in the Paul Short XC Invitational. Until my visit, I mistakenly thought that the entirety of Lehigh’s campus was built around the stadium, athletic fields, and parking lots with which I had become so familiar...
Georgia Tech represents almost everything that I have been looking for in a university. Among other attributes, its combination of advanced research, a strong sense of school pride and community, and a global outlook helped to place it at the forefront of my college search. However, it was the discussion over the summer with a friend, Jesse, that pushed the school to the top of my list...
To be honest, I have no recollection of the experience that would shape the rest of my life. Born three months premature, I was not supposed to live any longer than that first turbulent week. I was hastily baptized the same day I was born in fear that I would not last long enough to receive the rite under normal circumstances. The strong faith of my family and the incredible work of the nurses and doctors at the hospital helped me to battle against the odds and come home after four arduous months. Today, the only reminder of the difficult beginning I faced lies in my parents’ memories and a blue patterned album lying under my bed...
Standing there in that dark hospital room, it was just me. I was the only live soul in the room; I said my last goodbye. There were so many goodbyes up until that point, goodbyes that included mutual tears and soothing lines on his part. He would tell me that even if he was gone, I would always be able to hear his voice inside of my head. For a year, I had thought about what I would say when the time came for him to leave me. But in that room faced with his lifeless body, there was no obvious place to start...
Nine years ago, I decided to take up gardening. I looked into the Saint Joseph’s Church Bulletin and saw that one of the parishioners, Patricia Murray, needed some help with the gardens at our church. My mother felt I was mature enough to get involved, so she called the number and set a date to start working...
I cracked my piggy bank when I was seven years old. I couldn’t have had a lot of money, but I needed to get it right away. My mother was having trouble affording her college expenses and I thought she could borrow some of my savings. She didn’t turn me down, and who knows, maybe I bought her a textbook...
When I was young, I watched with puzzlement as my aunts, uncles, and cousins changed overnight with the mysterious and inexplicable advent of children. These newly minted parents suddenly took on an air of sagacity, appeared as if they had just learned the secret to life and tucked it away with a satisfied smile. Skeptical that having a child could beget such swift enlightenment, I brushed off my concern and told myself I would find out in the future with children of my own. The answer, however, came sooner than I had expected...
Meaningfulness of a cultural event (Participated)}
My most memorable concert experience involved me not as an audience member or a performer, but as a backstage assistant. As part of my internship under Maestro Tan Dun, I worked at a concert in Suzhou of his multimedia work, Martial Arts Trilogy. During rehearsals, I provided instant feedback to the Maestro on what I thought was missing from the orchestra, be it timbral balance or tempo issues...
{Why study music composition}
I write music because I want to be a voice for our generation. We need to take charge of our collective future, and take over the torch of responsibility. When an apathetic public darkens our world, we musicians also need to make a difference. Call it solace, call it pleas for a better reality; either way my music should shift equilibrium, even if only for a tiny bit...
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