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I'm Justis Midura, a (retired) Jazz musician from New Orleans, Louisiana, and hopefully a future business owner in the clean energy industry. I am a [[File:IMG 8683.jpg|thumb|IMG 8683.jpg]]second-year systems engineer at the University of Virginia. I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, studied music theory since the age of 4, and enjoyed Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest every year.
In high school I studied jazz at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), the most enthralling and enjoyable institution I could imagine, where I developed a strong appreciated for loosely guided experiential learning. Rather than listening to a professor speak, students mostly played for the professors or for volunteers giving masterclasses. We messed up a lot - failed a lot. But we mostly failed forwards, learning from our mistakes and jazz faux-pas (such as stressing the 1 and 3 rather than the 2 and 4 of a measure), which proved to be a very effective teaching style.
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