Let's start out with the basics. My name is Tara and I live in California. I'm 18 and will be (as of 9/1/09) a freshman at one of California's universities 3 hours away from home. I love music and I love playing music. Those are the basics. Let's get more detailed.

I've been playing the piano since I was 8 years old. I began to become passionate about piano when I was about 11 years old when I joined a group my piano teacher put together. This group had 5-6 girls who played the piano and the organ as a sort of a band. We played concerts all over California and once a year we would travel to Pennsylvania to perform there. I left the group at the beginning of my sophomore year to pursue studies of my own. Piano is my passion in life. I am also a percussionist and play the flute. I aspire to learn how to play the violin one day so let's hope that happens.

I'm a complete nerd. I love video games. I play a lot of Xbox Live, mainly Halo 3. If you play Xbox Live, send me your gamertag. New friends are totally awesome. I'm a big fan of old school Nintendo systems. I also play PS2. As far as computer games are concerned, I only play The Sims 2 and SimCity. No first person shooter games and no RPGs. I'm mainly a Mac user and my little Macbook can't really handle intense gaming. I also love love love math. My major doesn't require much math so that's disappointing.

I intend on majoring in Psychology and going on to graduate school to get my masters degree and hopefully my Ph.D or Psy.D. Human behavior has always fascinated me. I love trying to figure out why people do what they do and I've always been thinking critically about human behavior since I was younger. I took a Psychology class in high school and decided that that is what I'm going to study. Waking up to a job that you hate every day for the rest of your life sounds like it would suck. So Psychology is the field I will be in.

I would also love to double major in music, just because I love it and would to hone my skills as a pianist. I plan on doing something with music on the side whenever I start my career so music will always be a big part of my life. What I would ideally love to do is study music and perform for the rest of my life. But I want to be financially stable too so I've settled with Psychology -and- music. I'm pretty happy with my plan.

I'm an incredibly passionate and incredibly emotional person. I don't mean to say that I'm a drama queen. I try to be as fair as I can and to be honest, I haven't had petty drama since I was in middle school. So you can say I had a pretty nice high school career. What I mean by "passionate" is that I put my entire heart and soul into every aspect of my life that I cherish. I put my entire heart and soul into my favorite hobbies and my best relationships. What I mean by "emotional" is that I make really strong connections to anything and everything. I don't always get attached to things but when I do, it's a very very strong connection and I feel it.

I don't really know what else to say about myself other than little things here and there. Onto my blog!

Updated on September 1st, 2009