Personal Statement

Personal Statement

 

            My whole life has been about beating the odds; I was born two months premature. My life could have ended right there, in that gloomy grey hospital, but it didn’t. I beat the odds. By age five, I wasn’t catching up socially with my classmates: I would often shut myself from the world in a book rather than talk to people. I was never expected to make it into a bilingual school, even less to be admitted into one of the country’s best schools. I obviously wasn’t the social type as I preferred to keep to myself and my books. However, just like Temple Grandin, a woman with Autism who showed the world that one can change the world, even if you have a mental disorder, I soon found what interested me, what I wanted to do with my life. Yet, I would have to leave my comfort zone in order to do so.

            Since then, I have striven and struggled to prove my worth and determination. I’m not going to be just a face in the crowd; I’m going to change the world in my own way. I live in El Salvador, a little country with a thriving culture, yet it suffers a huge setback in politics mostly due to old feuds between two major political parties. I am most interested in studying film-making, in which my logic and analytic attitude come into use, as well as my love of details. Movies have always been a fascination to me, from the moment Dorothy would appear riding in her bicycle along with her dear Toto, until that last moment when she gladly exclaims “Home!  And this is my room -- and you're all here!  And I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And -- Oh, Auntie Em -- there's no place like home!”.

 

            Movies have always had some sort of inspirational power, and I want to be part of it. I want to be part of the magic that film-making is, the way one cries when their favorite character dies, the way one laughs when something unexpected happens, the terror Alfred Hitchcock sunk into our hearts as we saw Norman Bates’s mother persona take over at one of the last scenes, the wonder at seeing the world being dominated by apes in The Planet of the Apes saga. I can do this, as I have determination on my side- as in Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future trio, Emmet is often reminding the viewer “If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything!”. 

Author's Note

I am in 9th grade, but our teacher decided to do this early. Hope you like it!