There was a point in my undergraduate career where I was not being a very good student. I had kind of stopped caring about performance and really did not try hard in my voice lessons. As an undergraduate, I was in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. At the start of my senior year, our house dad, an alumni brother in the house, sat me down and had a conversation with me. He asked me what I was doing with my life. My GPA was not horrendous. It was not stellar either. He encouraged me to set goals and apply to graduate school.
That conversation really motivated me into shape. I composed a piece for the Drake Choir that fall. It got recorded onto a CD. I applied to graduate school at the University of Iowa. I finished my degree there, and now I am here at the U., all because someone sat me down and gave me some much needed constructive feedback.
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