Scholarships

I just finished filling out a scholarship form for my Junior (or just 3rd, never know how many years I'll actually stay) year at CSU Fresno. It seems kinda early to be filling something like that out, but whatever.

I like to goof around a bit with written sections. Just to make sure someone actually reads these things all the way through. I've never gotten such a call or response from anyone, so I just assume no one ever reads them.

This is what I put into the "Personal Statement" section of the form:
"I am a simple person. I enjoy long walks on the beach, foreign movies, and clichés. I have a knack for paradoxes. I wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. I like to think I'm a simple person.

I spend a considerable time at my church. I sing and play guitar in the church choir and help children in their catechism classes. Almost all of my Sunday is devoted to time spent at church. My friends ask why I don't hangout with them on Sunday. Professors ask why I don't finish my weekend homework. It is because I spend a considerable time at my church.

I am currently a Mass Communication and Journalism major. I enjoy writing. I write scripts. I write short stories. I write about silly situations, awkward situations, and fiction no one else bothers to write. I like to write about what goes on around me. I have taken quite a liking to writing stories as if I am a reporter working for a newspaper. Too bad the local newspaper just fired over one hundred employees. Especially since that's the kind of job could get with a Mass Communication and Journalism degree.

I like to consider myself a very conscious person. I like to know what goes on in this big wide world. I read the newspaper daily, I watch 24-hour news, I watch daily news. I also frequent The Huffington Post, Digg and take a deep pleasure in watching The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. News and social consciousness help me stay sane, I can always remind myself that the world is much more messed up than my simple life."

And this is what I put into the "Career Goal" section:
"After I graduate from CSU Fresno, I'd like to write and direct films. I've already made a few short films in my video production classes at CSU Fresno. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese are my heros in that field. I would love to create a film that rivals the heartfeltness of Spielberg's E.T. and the stylistics of Tarantino's Kill Bill and the imagination of Lucas' Star Wars. Maybe not all in the same film, but cumulatively.

I would also like to be a recording artist. I love writing songs and performing them in front of people. I play guitar in a band and I frequent local open mic sessions. I would love to be paid for that sort of work. Writing a song that appears in the next hip Apple commercial or playing a sold out show for fans would be a head rush that might cause my head to actually explode.

Realistically, the economic state of the United States can be disheartening. I can always look forward to steady work in weapons manufacturing or arms dealing, since the United States is the world's largest exporter.

I hear porn is a big industry too."

I hope it makes someone laugh first, then I hope they give me some money to pay for my tuition. I've got my priorities down.