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I am a global thinker who prefers to buy locally. I am a classical musician who likes to listen to modern
rock. I came to college thinking I didn't really like football, but before I left, I was sleeping outside of the stadium
before games for front row seats. I am driven to succeed in a specific professional field, yet I strongly value an
education in a large research institution that is strong in widely disparate fields of study.
I have identified four key strengths about myself as a potential student and teaching assistant.
In three years, I will hold a doctoral degree from a prestigious university where I will have distinguished
myself as a student and a teaching assistant, and contributed to the vitality of the arts community and the university
community as a whole. My music will have continued to be performed increasingly often by universities and opera
companies throughout the country.
In five years, I will have a faculty position teaching composition, theory and related topics at an institution
of higher education.
In seven years, my songwriting will have permeated the world of popular music as my opera and classical
music continues to permeate those respective worlds.
In ten years, I will be a sought-after producer and songwriter who also happens to write operas performed at
the largest houses in the country and eventually across the world. I will be on the cusp of earning tenure in my
academic job, and I will perform regularly as a classical piano accompanist and a rock keyboardist. My music will
help to redefine genre boundaries and build bridges between audiences—between people—who never thought they
had anything in common. I will have the kind of relationships and reputation that I can leverage to help my
students launch their own careers.
Throughout my life from today onward, I will be a committed family man. No matter how far my career
takes me, I will consistently offer my talents and time as a musician and mentor in my local church and as a
volunteer in my community.
I am ready to earn my doctoral degree, and I want to partner with a school that carries itself with pride and
confidence, a school like the University of Maryland. Not a week goes by in which I don't speak highly of my
previous alma mater to someone. I look forward to shining the same positive light on my new alma mater by my
words and my actions, throughout my matriculation and onward for the rest of my career.
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