Career Choice

When growing up I was always going through phases. One particular was, becoming a professional basketball player, another being a professional paintball player. However, when it came to writing and performing music, it seemed natural. From music, I branched into video and photography. All three truly expressed my creativity as an artists and I began to love every minute of it.

Music, video, and photography were all ways that I could express my feelings and ideas. I choose to do audio arts and acoustics because I loved performing in restaurants and clubs, but ultimately, I loved music.

Painting and photography

When I was growing up, I always doodled and drew. I started taking painting classes around the age of ten, and I haven't stopped painting since then. I like painting because it feels natural to me, and I feel like I am able to express myself better on a canvas then in any other way. When I am painting, it helps me think and process my thoughts, and I can see them more clearly. One of the reasons I knew I could study painting in school is because I can do it for a long time and not get tired of it. I can put my headphones in and paint for hours and hours as though no time has passed.

When I started photography five years ago, I enjoyed looking through the lense in the same way I was looking at a canvas. I enjoyed setting up a composition, playing with color, lines, and shapes. Although it was new to me, it felt natural the same way painting had. As I grew aquired more skills as a photographer, I realized I could make money off it. I took senior portraits for people and pictures for websites. I enjoyed making money from something I loved, and I wanted to continue that. I want to study photography at Columbia so I can have enough skills to be a professional. I want to study painting because it is my first passion, and I would never be able to let go of it. Even if painting doesnt take me anywhere career wise, I will always persue it.

What made me choose my career?

I have always had this passion to make / edit videos ever since I was about 13 years old. Whenever I went home I would go on YouTube just to watch videos that people edited. After watching so many videos that people have made with programs such as Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4d, Sony Vegas, and more I felt like I was ready! I conjured up ideas in my head in regards to what I was going to do for my first video that I released, and then when I opened the program with the footage I became lost. I had no idea how to do anything!

Even though I had these spectacular ideas they always turned out to look terrible. So I decided to look up how to use a program called Sony Vegas on YouTube, because everything is on YouTube! YouTube has taught me everything that I know about video editing. If it wasn't for YouTube, I don't know how I would have learned to use Sony Vegas, or any other editing software that I own.

After a few years passed I wanted to start a new
challenge, in addition to editing videos. I became interested in 3D Modeling, and once again I would come up with these terrific ideas about things but I was never able to utilize them because of my experience with these programs.

I am still undergoing the process of learning how to edit videos and 3D Animation, but at least I can say that I have about 5 years of editing experience and 1 year of 3D Animation experience. There are always new things to learn about a subject, even though I have 5 years of experience in video editing, I have not even learned half of the amount of information that is out there about it.

Television Writing

My major is television writing. The first time I watched TV I was fascinated by it. I could not wrap my young mind around how I was watching people on a screen in my house. When I learned that the people on the screen were actors I was slightly disappointed that it was not real life but soon got over it. Then I had more questions; Who told them what to do and what to say? My parents told me people wrote scripts for them. I was dumbfounded. That was a real job? I wanted to do that. I loved writing and loved watching TV. It was so simple.

I continued to love writing and aspired to be a TV writer. It wasn't for a few years after this that I first saw Saturday Night Live. I was obsessed. I loved how the short sketches had so much content and humor. I wanted to be apart of it. I started thinking about how I would move to New York, walk into NBC, find Lorne Michaels, and ask for a job as a for SNL. My parents thought my dream was a bit far fetched and in some ways still do, but I am on the right track to prove them wrong.

Television writing has been my dream for so long and I am so excited that I get to learn all about it at Columbia.

My Career

If you ask me what I want to do as a career, I would reply to choreograph show choirs and/or Broadway musicals.If you ask me where this came from, well that I cannot honestly answer. It just kind of came to me. I participated in musical theatre for ten years and then i was in show choir for a year. I loved to perform. I knew that was what I wanted to do as a career. As I grew up i started to enjoy the aspect of creating dance pieces and completion shows for show choir. I started to watch people choreograph and see how they taught people and really started to engage in my creative side. One day i woke up and was like I wanna be a choreographer.

I do not have this huge exciting story like other people do. I just view it as a calling or destiny and now I am working towards that, to be the best I can be. I always will be that perform and will always perform on the satge. Everyday I am alwasy creating new dance piece that I pull from insperation from show choir, Lady Gaga, and Prince Poppycock.

Interior Architecture

I don't have any real specific reasons as to what made me choose interior architecture as my major. At first, I wanted to pursue interior design, which Columbia does not offer as a major. Ever since I was a child I would always find new ways to decorate and rearrange my room. It's just something that I always found interest in.

When I was a youngster, I always liked moving my bunk-bed to the other side of the room, because it was fun to sleep in other areas of the room that seemed unfamiliar to me, if that makes sense? I loved building forts in the middle of my room, and being able to sleep in them. There was just something so exciting to me about it. Maybe it had to do with the fact that creating something new within something I couldn't really change. I obviously couldn't tell my dad I want to move houses every time I wanted to change the scenery up in my bedroom, especially as a little 6 year old.

As high school came to an end, I hadn't really put much thought into what career I wanted to pursue. All I knew was that I wanted to pursue something that would make me happy, and would make others happy as well. I didn't want to do something in life that I wouldn't enjoy, just because it would bring me the dough. I then remembered how much I enjoyed, and still do enjoy, decorating and switching up my bedroom.

My entire eighteen years of living, I've lived in the same two bedroom house. It's kind of depressing seeing the same four walls everyday. So then I thought "I want to do interior design. It's what makes me happy."

My boyfriend introduced me to Columbia, so I looked into it. I saw that they didn't offer interior design, but the next best thing was interior architecture. I thought, "Close enough, right?". It's still designing the interior of a building, but focusing more on the architecture/structure.