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by Jesseca Ormond<\/strong> – Tara Meinen chose Morningside College to study Instrumental Music Education because of its size, bands and available scholarships.<\/p>\n \u201cThey gave me enough scholarships to make the debt less crushing than other schools. I also like the small campus, the band director Shane Macklin, and the opportunities for jazz and marching band.\u201d<\/p>\n Meinen spends most of her time in the musical performance hub of campus, Eppley. She chose her major mainly to teach and be a part of band.<\/p>\n \u201cI will become a professional band kid,\u201d Meinen said. \u201cAny student I have will be in my class because they want to be there (not because they have to). I may not have much (or any) free time, but most of my busy schedule is made up of the thing I like to do the most.\u201d<\/p>\n A few of Meinen\u2019s friends have dropped out of college but she doesn\u2019t feel disheartened.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just life,\u201d Meinen said. \u201c[It] is common with music education majors. I have also shifted my focus from the music aspect to the teaching aspect of my major a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n Meinen is a part of Jazz band, marching band, symphonic wind ensemble, pep band, brass choir, and National Association for Music Education. She believes that her involvement on campus is the base of her network.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like most of the friends I have are because of those activities, and it\u2019s also allowed us music education majors to create a strong network\/ team so that we can survive our classes together,\u201d Meinen said.<\/p>\n During here three years at Morningside, Meinen has had various conducting, teaching, performing, and composing opportunities. She has also travel to Finland, Sweden, Chicago, Minneapolis with the band. She describes being a Morningsider as capitalizing on opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cTaking as many chances and opportunities as possible because they are there. If I didn\u2019t, it would be a waste of all that tuition money!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Jesseca Ormond – Tara Meinen chose Morningside College to study Instrumental Music Education because of its size, bands and available scholarships. \u201cThey gave me enough scholarships to make the debt less crushing than other schools. I also like the small campus, the band director Shane Macklin, and the opportunities for jazz and marching…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":968,"featured_media":9377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morningside-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9384,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9375\/revisions\/9384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}