College Admissions Essay: How Movies Influenced My Life

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I have always been influenced by movies, I just never realized until recently. I neglected many of my responsibilities because I would get distracted watching movies. My mom always told me how I would try to change myself into a character from a movie. She kept mentioning how I loved Tarzan, the disney movie, and how I like to swing across monkey bars to be like him. I am fascinated on how they were made. I always notice within high school movies and real-life that students struggle to decide who they want to be and major in. The pressure got to me and I tried to rush things, trying to figure out what I wanted to be so I did research and I tried out multiple assets for each career. But then I learned that I was looking to hard and that I should …show more content…

During my sophomore year, I noticed that I was always interested in animation movies because I would always watch the films, behind-the-scenes and memorize most lines. Until, I was self-aware of my interest in movies, everything became more clear to me, especially what I wanted to study in college. I joined Computer Animation class in my junior year, and I absolutely loved it. Quite frankly, I was also very good at it too; I received an A for all my projects and tests, got good grades in the class, not because it's easy but was rather that I was so interested on the content, I was always attracted to it and didn’t complain about the work. I learn a lot in this class, not only software skills but also learned about myself. What I learn is that loving movies is not the same as making them. Fortunately, I was able to tell the difference and can say that I love them both including the challenges included when modeling objects. I learned how to deal with problems and was able to apply the strategy of stepping back, rethink my steps, or give myself a break. I have been applying this technique to other problems I face such as math problems or brainstorming for projects. I liked this class so much that I took again this year and we focus more on modeling in MAYA where I faced

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