Recording Enginer

Essay by PaperNerd ContributorUniversity, Bachelor's October 2001

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Ever since the First grade when I wrote a book on how I wanted to become a rock star, I have always wanted a career in music. I listen to music every minute of every day. It is a huge part of my life and the way I live. Just in the past two years I have become interested in electronic audio and digital sound processing. I have been mixing my own songs and have been sampling songs into each other. I have just recently tried to figure out what I want to do with my life and have wanted to apply that type of music in my future career. One thing I am thinking about becoming an audio engineer and eventually a music producer. If I were to do this, I would defiantly have to go to college.

I searched the Internet for colleges that had good music computer engineering programs and came up with four colleges.

They are The University of Colorado ""Boulder, The University of Washington, Ball State University, and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. These four colleges stood out because they had good electronic audio programs. Two of them are not that far away from home and they all seem to nice campuses. Since they are good schools and I live out of state, it may be difficult to get into these schools. Most of these schools only allow 2,5000-4,000 slots for their freshman classes, so I will have to have at least a GPA of 3.5. I will also have to stay involved with the community and my extra curricular activities.

I want to go to college for many reasons. I want to be able to have a good career and that would be very difficult without going to college. One of the first...