My music journal has covered a range of topics of these five week of college. These few weeks of journaling spanned from talking about my first day as a music student at Converse College to the death of someone close to myself and how music affected these events. My first few journal entries were my thoughts and reactions towards being a music student. Music now affected my life no matter where I was. My grades, my friends, and my life was suddenly dependent on music. This new perspective on music was interesting to myself and I was able to create these thoughts into journals. My second type of journal entry came a week after classes started. I was walking to Blackman and