After finishing my AA in Communications, I will be attending the University of Iowa to pursue a Bachelors in English, with a focus on Creative Writing. I acknowledge that choosing creative writing as a career path is risky, not everyone can write the great American novel. However, choosing English is a risk I am willing to take. I have an entire world of ideas and useable plot locked inside my head and scribbled across countless pieces of scrap paper and old notebooks.
I have many great and complex ideas, but I need help getting them onto the page. It is my hope that the University of Iowa’s English program will help me to develop and hone my writing style, to give me the practice and guidance I need to write something someone will …show more content…
However, I accept the risks, knowing that in the end, like any degree, my success will be based on hard work.
Leisure Time
I tell my co-workers that “If you’re having fun, then you aren’t working hard enough.” I edge this sentiment with levity, of course, but I do believe in a distinct separation of work and play, that there belongs little overlap between the two. This isn’t to say you can’t enjoy your job, but that fun should come after.
Like everyone else, I enjoy kicking back and relaxing, or engaging in something entirely for its own sake. I am 35-years old and I still play video game. They’re fun, usually, with engaging storylines and lots of action. However, I do know they can be distracting. The last thing I did before starting college was to give away my Xbox and crate full of games. I have, however, slowly accumulated a digital collection on my personal computer, most of which I purchased on sale. Unlike before college, I am much better about my play-time, reserving the activities for when there is nothing else pressing to …show more content…
This statement is also a copout; I don’t know what happens when we die, or if there is a God. Since my mother’s death last year, I have put a considerable amount of thought into this notion and realized that the pursuit of an answer is asking the wrong question.
In consciously choosing to accept the possibility of a higher power, I realized that every single religion in the world it right, and wrong simultaneously. If there is a power to fashion and direct something as vast as existence itself, then its knowing must exist beyond, or even before, our limited human understanding. So the answer is to stop worrying, accepting that one day we will all find out what happens next, or doesn’t
I have many great and complex ideas, but I need help getting them onto the page. It is my hope that the University of Iowa’s English program will help me to develop and hone my writing style, to give me the practice and guidance I need to write something someone will …show more content…
However, I accept the risks, knowing that in the end, like any degree, my success will be based on hard work.
Leisure Time
I tell my co-workers that “If you’re having fun, then you aren’t working hard enough.” I edge this sentiment with levity, of course, but I do believe in a distinct separation of work and play, that there belongs little overlap between the two. This isn’t to say you can’t enjoy your job, but that fun should come after.
Like everyone else, I enjoy kicking back and relaxing, or engaging in something entirely for its own sake. I am 35-years old and I still play video game. They’re fun, usually, with engaging storylines and lots of action. However, I do know they can be distracting. The last thing I did before starting college was to give away my Xbox and crate full of games. I have, however, slowly accumulated a digital collection on my personal computer, most of which I purchased on sale. Unlike before college, I am much better about my play-time, reserving the activities for when there is nothing else pressing to …show more content…
This statement is also a copout; I don’t know what happens when we die, or if there is a God. Since my mother’s death last year, I have put a considerable amount of thought into this notion and realized that the pursuit of an answer is asking the wrong question.
In consciously choosing to accept the possibility of a higher power, I realized that every single religion in the world it right, and wrong simultaneously. If there is a power to fashion and direct something as vast as existence itself, then its knowing must exist beyond, or even before, our limited human understanding. So the answer is to stop worrying, accepting that one day we will all find out what happens next, or doesn’t