About Me: Vijay Kerai

              My name is Vijay Kerai and I am rising sophomore majoring in Computer Engineering. My major is sitting on sand as I do not really know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I am on a mission to try and find my place in the place I currently call home, Campobello, a small town in upstate South Carolina. I really like diversity and feel that diversity makes life glow and gives life color. I have made a goal. I want to learn how to listen. This is part of my inner vision of what I want to accomplish as a college student. Listening to others leads to understanding and this is what helps me understand diversity. I love the appreciative feeling I get when I learn something from someone that I really didn’t expect to really understand.

                Where do we feel most at home? I believe people all have different preferences for what they enjoy to compose. The setting of home for composition should be warm and familiar. I think writers feel secure when they are in a familiar setting that is calm.

                What does it mean when you feel at home? I think feeling at home really means to attain a level of tranquility both in the physical self and in the mental self. Feeling at home means that ideas flow harmoniously, the hand and fingers move swiftly, and the individual feels at ease. When I feel at home, I feel a since of security and this helps my level of confidence with whatever I am composing. Literally feeling at home means that I feel accepted and feel that those around me understand me well.

                When communicating, expressing and composing, what medium or style do you feel most at home? I feel the medium of music to be my most secure and swift style of communication and composition. I can express what I need to in a way that is vague in specific understanding yet is also blunt in meaning. Emotions are the true indicator of what medium is the best for expressing life. I am talking about performance of music after writing a musical composition, this way of communicating emotion is the most true to me. I feel at home with music and feel as I can coexist with musical notes in harmony.