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.
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