Change is in the air
Who are you? Where are you going? And how are you going to get there? These three questions are repeatedly asked through my high school experience. By senior year, one should know the responses, For me, I knew long before I entered high school. However, the answers to these questions were different during my freshman year. Everything changed when my first camera became my eye to see the world. Photography has been a significant piece of my life. From planning photoshoots regularly, attending summer of art pre-college program, photographing senior photos, attending high school photography classes, to traveling for private photography lessons, it has always been there as my central reality. Photography allows me to express …show more content…
Yes, UAL unquestionably offers an amazing creative environment and phenomenal professors. For example, the UAL website writes, “Each College has strong links with industry, enabling many students to work on live projects and gain professional contacts. We can provide the high-quality teaching, modern facilities and creative space for you to explore your ideas, skills and unique vision.” However, to me it is much more. I desire to partake in an engaging new culture, aspire to work with people all around the world, comprehend different points of view to assimilate them with my own, care to meet people in the world that obtain the same interest as me. As Socrates, once said, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” That is precisely I wish to do, build a new life for myself, where I can experience changes in all aspects: a new life containing new friends, a new school, a new country. I want my life to continue to change and develop through my work. During my studies, not only do I wish to be prepared for the real world, but succeed in it. Studying at UAL will be my road map to the skills and information I need to
Who are you? Where are you going? And how are you going to get there? These three questions are repeatedly asked through my high school experience. By senior year, one should know the responses, For me, I knew long before I entered high school. However, the answers to these questions were different during my freshman year. Everything changed when my first camera became my eye to see the world. Photography has been a significant piece of my life. From planning photoshoots regularly, attending summer of art pre-college program, photographing senior photos, attending high school photography classes, to traveling for private photography lessons, it has always been there as my central reality. Photography allows me to express …show more content…
Yes, UAL unquestionably offers an amazing creative environment and phenomenal professors. For example, the UAL website writes, “Each College has strong links with industry, enabling many students to work on live projects and gain professional contacts. We can provide the high-quality teaching, modern facilities and creative space for you to explore your ideas, skills and unique vision.” However, to me it is much more. I desire to partake in an engaging new culture, aspire to work with people all around the world, comprehend different points of view to assimilate them with my own, care to meet people in the world that obtain the same interest as me. As Socrates, once said, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” That is precisely I wish to do, build a new life for myself, where I can experience changes in all aspects: a new life containing new friends, a new school, a new country. I want my life to continue to change and develop through my work. During my studies, not only do I wish to be prepared for the real world, but succeed in it. Studying at UAL will be my road map to the skills and information I need to