Be completely honest, I can take it. I'm a little worried because the length is only about 1.5 pages. Want to submit today or tomorrow, so a quick response would be great. Thanks.
Part 3. Dramatic Story - Introduce yourself. Describe an unforgettable event in your life and how it changed your perception of yourself or the view of someone close to you. This event can be dramatic and/or comedic. The assignment should be written as a short story. Please do not write about why or what lead you to pursue a degree in film and television production. Ultimately we are looking for evidence of your potential as a visual storyteller.
FORMAT: Up to four typed, double-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages.( Save as a PDF or .doc and upload to tischfilmandtv.slideroom.com)
I sit staring at my laptop and I feel completely lost. How I have arrived at this particular point is impossible to say. I have lived my entire life looking ahead, and now I am about to open a common app account and start applying to colleges. I feel like time is something that moves both at a snail-like pace and at a rapid speed. If you make yourself aware of it, you can almost hear the clocks tick. If you choose to ignore it, you go from age seven to seventeen in the blink of an eye. I check the box that says I am applying as a first-year student. It occurs to me that now, everything that has happened in my life has led up to this. No more speculating about my future, I have approached the future. Up until this point, I have been more than content to sink into my own fantasies. In the eighth grade, I had no doubt I would be a famous prodigy filmmaker by freshman year. By freshman year, I knew it would happen sophomore year. As I sit in front of my laptop, filling in my date of birth, I am going to try and be honest with myself. Odds are, I won't be up on the stage at next year's Academy Awards; I'll have to try and aim for the year after. I suppose I've always looked forward to this point, the freedoms I'll get, but I feel a strange sensation in the pit of my stomach. It feels like some sort of apprehension mixed with excitement. I can't deny that I'm excited, but I'm definitely scared. How did I hear about the Common App Online? I mouse down and click other. Scared because this means that everything in my life up until this point is gone. I had seventeen years to plan and prepare for this, and they're gone. Whatever plans and preparations I've made will hopefully be good enough for the next sixty years. I probably would've done several things differently. I would've worked harder in school, would've started working on my portfolio earlier, would've treated this person differently, would've said something different to that person, would've decided to go to this party instead of that one, would've worked up the courage to ask someone to prom instead of staying home, and would've ordered soup instead of salad that one night two or three years ago. Not that I dwell on the past or anything, but at this precise moment, I find it hard not to. At this precise moment, I find it impossible to stop myself from reliving every mistake I've ever made. It is a long process, and a painful one. I check off that I have read and understand the terms and conditions of the above License Agreement. I think that I've come to embrace the fact that beneath all my fears, lies an incredible excitement for what lies ahead. I've braced myself to put everything I have into making my dreams and fantasies gain the dimensions of reality. I scroll down and click Register.
"I sit staring at my laptop and I feel completely lost. How I have arrived at this particular point is impossible to say. I have lived my entire life looking ahead, and now I am about to open a common app account and start applying to colleges."
This statement is a bit cliche-- colleges see thousands of people starting with a statement somewhere along the lines "I've been staring at this prompt for hours.."
Nicely worded essay though.
