Ball State University: Take 4
Welcome! My name is Luke Meyer and I am going to be a blogger for the 2007-2008 term. With this first post, I want to help you get to know a little bit about me and what I do. If you're a prospective student, I hope that throughout this year, I, along with my fellow BSU bloggers, can help you decide if this is the right place for you because no one wants the wrong college! Now a little about me...
I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 12, 1986 (remember this date because I will expect cards and/or presents), becoming the 3rd in a family that would soon come to have eight kids...yeah, that's right...EIGHT. Midway through kindergarten, my family picked up and moved to Olathe, Kansas where we spent a year-and-a-half. Following Kansas came Muncie, Indiana. In my year of living in Muncie, I attended Garfield Elementary, which every time I drive by it, I say hello to my 2nd grade teacher, even though she is no longer there. After that interesting year in the Muncie Public School System (where I happened to win a hoola hoop contest which was the beginning of my dance career, mind you), my family packed up one last time and moved to New Castle, Indiana, where I still reside today.
While at New Castle, I participated in everything I possibly could; six years of baseball, four years of basketball, a year of football (the worst year of my life), a year of soccer, a few years of track, swimming, speech & debate, academic teams, and both the band and choir programs. These two programs are what have defined who I am now. I dedicated my four years of high school to the music program at New Castle Chrysler. I participated in the wind ensemble, the marching band where I was drum major my junior and senior years, basketball band, jazz band, brass choir, honor bands, and the orchestra pit for musicals. On the choral side of it, I was in Chorale, show choir, madrigals, the barbershop quartet, honor choirs, and two musicals, taking the male lead in "Annie Get Your Gun" my senior year. From this, I'm sure you can figure out what my field of study became...
At Ball State, I am a 1st-year Senior Instrumental Music Education major with French and Vocal Performance minors. My primary instrument is the saxophone. I am a 3rd-year member of the Ball State University Singers and the Ball State "Pride of Mid-America" Marching Band. In University Singers, I am in the Glee Club where I sing bass; in the marching band, I am the alto saxophone section leader, and believe me, my section loves to give me a hard time about being in University Singers...always waving jazz hands at me...anyway, moving on. I work three jobs during school: a stage hand at Pruis Hall on campus, a singer in the College Avenue Church choir, and a substitute teacher back home at New Castle; what can I say, I lead a busy life.
I'm going to conclude this entry with a few pics that will help you understand what I do...ENJOY!
That's me in the middle during last year's "Doctor Doctor," a University Singers classic.
This is myself and Amanda Krupinski, a fellow University Singer, during our first act closer.
This is a picture from University Singers formal last year. Bridget Pearson was my date and we took to the dance floor like none other!
Here I am with Michelle Jarvi at the first football game this season. We were ecstatic for our new uniforms!
Finally, here I am with my niece and nephew, Laura and Gabe (a.k.a. Squishy and G-baby). I am certain to make references to them throughout the year because I am obsessed with them.