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i got my uncle's old computer up and running and sold it to a co-worker. it cost about 80 bucks to fix up and i sold it to him for 250. i could have gotten a hell of alot more for it but this dude is one of the few good guys at work and so i didn't mind. i opened up a savings account a while ago and i'm trying to save enough to buy a 17 inch powerbook (about 3,000) by this summer. if i get into ncsa i'll be able to get it discounted which would rule. macs are a requirement for the school and since my mom and stepdad paid for my computer the first time around i'm trying to front the bill for this one. if i'm a little short i'll probably just let them pick up the end as a birthday present. i have about three or four months left down here so if work keeps up and i don't have any suprise bills i should be able to make it.
i've been praying everyday that i get in. my interview last weekend went well (more on that later) and i think i have a good shot at getting in. i really want this, more than i've wanted anything before. if i don't get in it'll suck, alot. i'm not going to give up, i'll still work towards a career in film, but i won't really know what to do. i was going to apply to radford and aiph but the more i think about it i'd almost rather just work until i can reapply to ncsa than have my parents spend more money on a school that's not really offering what i want. i don't know, if you pray, please pray for me. if you don't pray, pray for me anyways. i've told myself over and over that if ncsa isn't where i'm supposed to be i won't end up there but, it would still hurt after all i've put in down here to not be able to make a significant step foreward once it's all over.
on to the interview.
i arrived in winston-salem around 8:30. i didn't have to be there until 9:30 according to my letter but showing up early never hurts. my mom had called on my way down but i had left the phone on mute from a while ago so i didn't hear it. i called her back and we talked for a while. after i hung up i went looking for the bb&t lobby, which was where i was supposed to be. the map that was included with the letter wasn't too descriptive so i walked around the film village looking for a sign or something to direct me. someone stuck their head out of a door and asked me if i was here for an interview, i said that i was and they told me we were supposed to meet in "here." i walked in the building and noticed that there was a sign that said bb&t lobby on the wall. there were two other people there (one of whom was the person who i previously mentioned) for film interviews. no faculty was present and it looked like we had been misinformed. after a while a few more people showed up and a faculty member eventually came in and checked off our names. i talked with the other two people there as we waited for everything to get going. one was a boy from somewhere in north carolina who was applying for his second time and the other was a girl from maryland. i hate to say it so bluntly but the boy was a complete loser. it didn't appear that he had showered that day and he kept hitting on the girl. the girl asked if we knew if we had time to do sports and she said that she had done muy thai boxing for 6 years. i'm always excited to meet someone who loves martial arts as much as i do (much less an attractive girl) and i told her that i did mma and had just started studying brazillian ju-jitsu. she was like "thats awesome! there's a place i found here yesterday that does muy thai and bjj." then the boy was like "i used to do football but i pulled my knee out streaching so i had to quit." we were both like "oh...thats nice" as we tried not to laugh.
after several more uncomfortable moments like that we moved into a theater with everyone else who had showed up and had a "information session" with the student life and financial aid directors. then we watched 2 short films and some first year students talked to us for a while. while there was a sense of hard work in the way they talked about the school there was also a very comfortable feel to it. once they were done all of the prospective students were split up into two groups and we took a mini tour of the film facility. i had seen most of what they showed up when i went up there before but i got to see one of the projection rooms and part of their film archive. they have a huge film archive, i think they said its the 4th largest in the country, and they have some rare prints like the first starwars (episode 4) in technicolor. after that we went into a theater and did a writing sample where they gave us a picture and we had fifteen munites to write about it. then it was time for interviews.
i wasn't nervous but i wasn't going in as confident as i'd like to have been. everyone was put in a large confrence room with the first year students who had talked to us and every now and then a faculty member would poke their head in and call out someones name. it got down to me and one other guy and we jokingly made a bet on who'd get called. his name got called and he went in. there wasn't anyone else there really except me and the students. once the interviews were over you could leave so no one really had a reason to stick around. i talked to them for a little bit when one of them asked me what picture i had for my free writing. i showed it to them and two of them were like "holy shit thats the same one i had! you have to get in!" so i'm hoping that that's a sign from above that i'm getting in. i sat there for a while more and the student life director said that she'd sit with me (because the students were working on a film project that day). she asked me what my name was and i told her. one of the faculty members was leaving and he overheard us. he said that he thought i might have been overlooked. upon investigation we found out that someone had marked my folder as "no show." i tired to keep my cool outside but inside i was like "oh hell oh hell oh hell." the man erased it off my folder and said that he'd interview me. it was probably quicker than most of the interviews but i tried to convey that i really wanted to get back into it and go to school there. after it was all over we shook hands and i left. i called my mom again but got her voice mail so i drove back home.
they said that in about two weeks we'd know if we had been accepted so i'm waiting as patiently as i can to hear from them.
i've been praying everyday that i get in. my interview last weekend went well (more on that later) and i think i have a good shot at getting in. i really want this, more than i've wanted anything before. if i don't get in it'll suck, alot. i'm not going to give up, i'll still work towards a career in film, but i won't really know what to do. i was going to apply to radford and aiph but the more i think about it i'd almost rather just work until i can reapply to ncsa than have my parents spend more money on a school that's not really offering what i want. i don't know, if you pray, please pray for me. if you don't pray, pray for me anyways. i've told myself over and over that if ncsa isn't where i'm supposed to be i won't end up there but, it would still hurt after all i've put in down here to not be able to make a significant step foreward once it's all over.
on to the interview.
i arrived in winston-salem around 8:30. i didn't have to be there until 9:30 according to my letter but showing up early never hurts. my mom had called on my way down but i had left the phone on mute from a while ago so i didn't hear it. i called her back and we talked for a while. after i hung up i went looking for the bb&t lobby, which was where i was supposed to be. the map that was included with the letter wasn't too descriptive so i walked around the film village looking for a sign or something to direct me. someone stuck their head out of a door and asked me if i was here for an interview, i said that i was and they told me we were supposed to meet in "here." i walked in the building and noticed that there was a sign that said bb&t lobby on the wall. there were two other people there (one of whom was the person who i previously mentioned) for film interviews. no faculty was present and it looked like we had been misinformed. after a while a few more people showed up and a faculty member eventually came in and checked off our names. i talked with the other two people there as we waited for everything to get going. one was a boy from somewhere in north carolina who was applying for his second time and the other was a girl from maryland. i hate to say it so bluntly but the boy was a complete loser. it didn't appear that he had showered that day and he kept hitting on the girl. the girl asked if we knew if we had time to do sports and she said that she had done muy thai boxing for 6 years. i'm always excited to meet someone who loves martial arts as much as i do (much less an attractive girl) and i told her that i did mma and had just started studying brazillian ju-jitsu. she was like "thats awesome! there's a place i found here yesterday that does muy thai and bjj." then the boy was like "i used to do football but i pulled my knee out streaching so i had to quit." we were both like "oh...thats nice" as we tried not to laugh.
after several more uncomfortable moments like that we moved into a theater with everyone else who had showed up and had a "information session" with the student life and financial aid directors. then we watched 2 short films and some first year students talked to us for a while. while there was a sense of hard work in the way they talked about the school there was also a very comfortable feel to it. once they were done all of the prospective students were split up into two groups and we took a mini tour of the film facility. i had seen most of what they showed up when i went up there before but i got to see one of the projection rooms and part of their film archive. they have a huge film archive, i think they said its the 4th largest in the country, and they have some rare prints like the first starwars (episode 4) in technicolor. after that we went into a theater and did a writing sample where they gave us a picture and we had fifteen munites to write about it. then it was time for interviews.
i wasn't nervous but i wasn't going in as confident as i'd like to have been. everyone was put in a large confrence room with the first year students who had talked to us and every now and then a faculty member would poke their head in and call out someones name. it got down to me and one other guy and we jokingly made a bet on who'd get called. his name got called and he went in. there wasn't anyone else there really except me and the students. once the interviews were over you could leave so no one really had a reason to stick around. i talked to them for a little bit when one of them asked me what picture i had for my free writing. i showed it to them and two of them were like "holy shit thats the same one i had! you have to get in!" so i'm hoping that that's a sign from above that i'm getting in. i sat there for a while more and the student life director said that she'd sit with me (because the students were working on a film project that day). she asked me what my name was and i told her. one of the faculty members was leaving and he overheard us. he said that he thought i might have been overlooked. upon investigation we found out that someone had marked my folder as "no show." i tired to keep my cool outside but inside i was like "oh hell oh hell oh hell." the man erased it off my folder and said that he'd interview me. it was probably quicker than most of the interviews but i tried to convey that i really wanted to get back into it and go to school there. after it was all over we shook hands and i left. i called my mom again but got her voice mail so i drove back home.
they said that in about two weeks we'd know if we had been accepted so i'm waiting as patiently as i can to hear from them.