How is my intro paragraph for my college essay? I have a few months to write, but I'm not sure if I should continue. (just a draft!)
In an orchestra, there’s either first violin or second, or at least that’s what I thought until I became a third violinist. I remember being a freshman in high school, sitting in the back of the second violin section with my long acrylic nails wrapped around my violin, the tips hitting every string as I played. My teacher used to ask me all the time, “Tyanna, when are those nails coming off?” I always told her “Next time”, knowing I had another nail appointment scheduled to get them redone. I always knew as a violinist they had to come off, but was my instrument really worth it? Is something I always asked myself, and honestly, I didn’t think so. Being the last chair of the second violin section and now of the third, I told myself that it didn't make sense to commit to something that wasn’t committed to me. I barely knew how to sight read; I didn’t understand how to play my scales. And in a room filled with people who sounded so sure of their playing, I kept wondering what I was doing here.