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My Background

Bristol Mountain

This is the ski resort I grew up near. I live 7 minutes away and held a part time job as an ski instructor. This is an important spot in my life because my family and I have skied since we were three. My brother and I would always ski late at night together. We bonded together through these nights and making videos of our free-skiing adventures.  

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Mountain , B. (n.d.). Fall Sky Rides - Bristol Mountain - Save When You Purchase Online. Retrieved from https://www.bristolmountain.com/fall-sky-rides/

Sound track of my life

Not Afraid

Eminem

EminemMusic, E. Music. [Screen name]. (2010, June 5th). Eminem - Not Afraid (Official Video) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/j5-yKhDd64s

 

This song is connected with a very long time period in my life. From the first grade all the way through to my seventh grade year I was, to put it in different words not a fan favorite amongst certain children. I personally dislike the word “bully”. I believe that this word now days is thrown out willy-nilly and has lost the true value of the word. Many kids in today’s era use this word as a joke, to get attention and or to get out of a consequence. I have seen this word used for all of the following. However, in my case, unfortunately, it was not like that. My first grade teacher seemed to dismiss or be oblivious to what was occuring. At such a young age my tiny brain could not comprehend the circumstances enough to understand what was truly happening. My parents caught on as soon as it was accidently told to them through a story of me getting a brand new Tech-Deck because a peer pushed me over the hallway and bribed me for silence. My second grade teacher was the first teacher to notice and address what was occurring. She relayed that I should no longer be in a class with certain others. That didn’t last. These events continued throughout my elementary career including everything from pushing, shoving, hitting, kicking chairs out from underneath me, and also trying to do some other preferably unnameable things. The worst to me however, was the verbal abuse, from such a young age and such a weak, “mental blocker”, I was susceptible to this. When you are constantly told something that you know isn't true day after day after day slowly against your will you start to believe it. I like to refer this one back to the, “Stanford Prison Experiment”, you should watch it, its on netflix. I believe you will find the similarities between a social experiment where the subjects, who were college students by the way and are aware that this is an experiment, and my situation are strikingly similar. Around the sixth grade I began to get fed up with the ridiculous actions taking place and found that this song was helpful for me. This song carried me through my decision to not put up with the actions of these kids and stand up for myself. This song also helped me in my decision to move schools and all the way up to me graduating early, partially to rub in the faces of my academic counselors who though I was a weak student and the kid who got held back a year. In conclusion this song helped me through rough times all though it seems cliche it truly was and I fully acknowledged that fact however it seemed very relevant to my life and gave me the will to fight back.

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All the Small Things

Blink-182

Blink-182[Screen name]. ( 2009, June 16th). blink-182 - All The Small Things (Official Video). [Video file], Retrieved from https://youtu.be/9Ht5RZpzPqw


 

All the small things was a song I started listening to after my move into my new school and the one I graduated from, Honeoye Central. This song is relevant to my life because it takes me back to an easier time. This is when I had no stress, no extra classes to graduate early, I hadn’t set a life plan, I had a stable relationship, school was easy, I was playing soccer my favorite sport, and I had good friends. This song specifically takes me back to one evening before our only night game of the year; all of our grade was there, it was cold and chilly with a light rain almost snow. We were all bundled up on the field with under-armour and I was wearing gloves which I thought looked pretty cool. I wore the team captain band on my upper arm with pride. This was our first and only chance to play music for our warm ups. This song was the only song I requested be on the playlist. Although it does fit the stereo-typical “warm-up” music it got me more pumped than any other song on that playlist, not that it was very hard with the other kids music choices. When this song came on I was taking a shot during a drill from outside the 18 yard box and scored perfect upper-90’s, which was impressive for our age, I knew then it was gonna be a good game. I played center midfield and played the best game of the year there. Everyone I saw in the crowd although I tried to block it out was pumped up, which fed us energy. Ultimately we ended up losing the match, however, I was the only one who scored and we were used to it considering the closest to winning we tasted all year was a tie, we were only a little upset. Even though we lost I walked off the field happy and excited; Although it would have been better had we won but I knew that I had many things going for me outside the soccer realm and I was just excited to be in the position I was in in life itself. I had all of the things listed in the beginning of this paragraph, I had my brother and his friends, they were 3 years older than me,  who were the only ones who treated me like an actual human being that was around my age during my first grade to seventh grade years. My brother was very respectful of me hanging around with them keeping me involved well not pushing me away from his friends. His friends, namely Jake Chapman, and Zack Dormer were the ones who became like brothers to me. In conclusion, this song is relevant since it reminds me of the “good ole’ days” of my 8th grade year.  

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Circles 

Post Malone

Post Malone [Screen name]. (2019, September 3rd). Post Malone - Circles[Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/wXhTHyIgQ_U

 

This song is a song that I feel has been present in my college experience so far. No matter what hall you are in or dorm on campus, this song is always able to be heard. This song makes me become conscious of life itself. This song, although being released only this year, reminds me of my childhood and all the way up to highschool and beginning of the college experience. This song brings up memories I forgot I had. These memories may be happy or sad memories. I can never tell what Emotion this song will make me feel. This song is a gamble and reminds me of all the good times and the bad times, the sad times and happy times. This song will likely be relevant for a long time following m y freshman year in a higher education institution. Looking into the future this song seems like the type that will slip my mind for a long time only to be discovered at a later date. When I listen to that song in the future I must inquire as to what emotion it will bring up. These are the times where this song will be defined, hopefully they will be of happy times. In conclusion, this song's relevance in my life is incomplete and now are the deciding memoires on how this song will play out in my life.

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