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I absolutely love music. Today I actually lost my headphones and I have never been more angry at myself because I lose them like every 2-3 days and end up finding them a week later. That was sorta unrelated but whatever. Anyways, My earliest memories of music is often tied into TV shows or movies that I watched at a very young age. As a kid, many of the shows I watched taught things through song or just had a lot of dancing and singing in them. One show I remember in specific was called The Wiggles and my most memorable song from it would be “Fruit Salad”. The lyrics are pretty straightforward and were easy to process and sing along to for a 3 year old. “Fruit salad...yummy yummy! Fruit salad...yummy yummy!” Yall get the picture.  Another one of my earliest musical memories comes from Jurassic Park. This movie single handedly sparked my interest in dinosaurs and paleontology and is still my favorite movie to this day. I’ve seen it too many times and have gotten used to all the ...

  It was a pretty normal day. Not much different from the others where I would play foosball during my free periods and Mario Kart on my phone. However, there was one thing that was different than most of my other days.  After school I head to Siebel to chill with my friends, Max and Arav, and I finish an episode of Lucifer instead of doing work. Max taps my shoulder and asks if we could head to County Market since he wanted to grab some Takis. When we enter County Market and are on the way to the chips aisle, we get interrupted by a woman yelling out, “Free Bingo with free prizes!”. I looked at Arav and Max and we all decided that playing a game of Bingo wouldn’t exactly hurt. We sat down in the cafe section of County Market and there were only a total of 6 or 7 people playing including us 3. We each received a Bingo board and the prizes, which were different types of snacks including waffles, were arranged on a table. Behind the gamemaster was a huge Keystone cooler whi...