College Questions

Tell me about yourself.

Well its difficult to know where to begin. I suppose the best place to start is the fact that i refuse to ever be bored. For me boredom is always replaced with curiosity. Curiosity for what new hobbies i should pickup, what new book i should read or just what i can learn from my surroundings. Because of this curiosity Ive not only stepped out of my box by learning the most that i possibly can, but Ive learned how to understand other people better and what it is like to walk in their shoes. Through curiosity Ive learned that my true passion is acting and that i am going to pursue my passion as a career (no matter how hard it gets). The fact that i get to play make-believe as a profession truly amazes me. Not only do i get to experience the kind of imagination that adults forget they once had, but i also can experience the lives of others whenever i want to. Learning to understand what makes a person tick, i personally believe, is life's greatest lesson. My acting has not only fed my curiosity and enhanced my imagination, but it has helped with my highschool education as well, I am excellent at critical thinking and due to this i believe i am a great student. By auditioning in front of total strangers, Ive learned how to be outgoing and completely confident in who i am. Ive learned from my rejections as well that no matter what people say, it is important to follow your dream. And last but not least by preforming in front of huge crowds, Ive found my courage. Although I realize how hard it is to pursue acting as a career, I know that acting truly defines me as a person and i plan to always play the role of who i truly am throughout my life. No matter what people believe or say. Thanks to my curiosity of living the lives of others, i have learned to live my own life to the best it can be.


Tell me about a challenge that you overcame.

Perhaps the biggest challenge i faced during my highschool years was change. I had came from a small private Waldorf school where each grade consisted of one class of twenty or less students and where each class had one teacher who guided the grade from first to eighth. The school had barely and homework and barely ever had tests. So coming from a small family like school to a big public school was my biggest challenge. I had to learn how to start over again, to make friends, develop relationships with teachers and last but most importantly learn how to take these new way of learning. Essays and critical thinking questions where never a problem for me, but I did not know how to play the game of multiple choice testing. I struggled at first and was often discouraged by all this change at once. Not only was my school life changing, but my family life as well. But I was determined to succeed in my new surroundings, I studied a lot and soon felt at home. By junior year i was talking almost all AP classes and felt at home once again. My mother often asked if i wanted to go to a private waldorf highschool, but even though times where tough i was determined not to run away from this challenge. I faced it and in the end I formed great relationships with teachers and friends. Although highschool still can be tough and scary, I am still learning and will continue to learn and progress. Thanks to the rough times in highschool, i will continue to succeed in no matter how stressful and scary of a situation