I lied about being able to play the piano when I got accepted to college.

When I applied for colleges I found the only place that I could realistically get in with a half-way decent scholarship was a tiny little religious college in the middle of nowhere. I hadn't planned on going to college originally but when I got in I decided why not. <br><br>The scholarship I got was for music and when I applied I had put down the piano as my instrument even though I didn't know how to play at the time and hadn't since I was a kid. I figured oh well, I'll just play something from memory.<br><br>I ended up having to play the piano in front of a panel of music students that were my superiors in order to get the scholarship and I ended up shitting myself. I knew I couldn't play and I didn't know the first thing about the sheet music, so I improvised.<br><br>I did this little ditty that was half moonlight sonata half clair de lune and they all looked like they just watched the god of piano play. <br><br>One of the men said "well that was certainly...different wasn't it". I took that as a bad thing and got up and got my things in order to leave. I got out in the hallway when one of the music professors came out and asked me to come back for a moment. They offered me a full music scholarship and a job with the department.<br><br>I was shocked and took it without thinking what that meant. I got to college and realized that not only was I on scholarship, but I had to work for the department. I was in charge of accompanying the choir for 2 classes per day and I was in charge of teaching children with special needs to play instruments. <br><br>I can't play the piano anymore than I could when I auditioned but that's how I got through college and I owe it to my lies.