My Major

My major actually came along as a mistake.
Before I came to Columbia, since I was 12, I wanted to be a pastry chef. (Yeah, it was a stretch) I even went to an open house at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and took a short summer semester there. It really was fun and amazing and I learned so much. Being that the CIA is a prestigious culinary school, it was beautiful and I couldn't wait to go! But one day I sat down and thought about it. Do I really want to push and pull cakes out of the oven for the rest of my life? HELL NO! So by sophomore year of high school, I knew I didn't want to be a pastry chef. But I hadn't told my parents yet. I was scared to tell them that I had no direction in life. (I was 15.) lol! Anyway, I had applied to Jonson Wales. You get accepted there...you're on your way to becoming the head chef at the Borgata! Graduate from there and you can travel anywhere, cook whatever and still make 6 figures. I got rejected. After 6 hours of cursing I cooled down. I didn't want to go but I thought I'd at least get accepted. When I called them and asked why i didn't get accepted, they said it's because in my oceanography class in high school, i got a D. I didn't know Oceanography had anything to do with cooking...Oh, wait...it doesn't! lol. (Yeah, I'm still a little bitter.) Moving on, I was looking for something else to fulfill what I wanted out of life. I knew I wanted to inspire people, I wanted to be recognized for my good work, (not necessarily with money or awards or fans, just something, ya know?) I wanted to be apart of something big! I thought....Stand up comedy! I was 40 minutes away from NYC, the comedy capitol of NY! So many people started there. I started to do stand up but I knew I couldn't do it full time. I did so many shows that I was forgetting whether it was Monday or Friday. It was a lot of fun, but my money all going into transportation. So after persuing 2 careers in one year I was exhausted. I held myself up in my room just watching movies. Then I saw a movie called 'Hard Candy'. That was the first movie that I ever noticed was beautifully directed. After the movie, I knew I wanted to direct. I started stealing my friends video camera and making short films with my friends. None of them were any good of course because all of my friends are shit at acting and I was an ameteur. It was so much fun and I actually enjoyed setting up shots, filming, directing and editing them. I picked up a couple of low paying or no paying acting jobs in the city just to be near a camera. Being in film was where I wanted to be.End of my Senior year of high school, I decided to tell my parents what I REALLY wanted to do.
Here I am.
Next semester I'll be going back to NYC to the New York Film Academy.