College Anyone?

I've put a lot of thought into this blog and have a pretty strong idea of what this week's topic will be about. College opportunities. Yes yes yes, college! This is not only the year that all of this stress and pressure is piled on top of us, but we're also required to find somewhat of our future path. Hey, don't rush me okay? I'm 16 years young and I didn't (and still don't fully) know what the heck I'm going to be when I grow up. It may change, it may not. That's life! But, getting back on to the topic at hand, college is the next big step in our lives. Looking online, I have found somewhat of a good taste in what Pixar, Disney, and Dreamworks all require of their employees. Some level of art, whether it be in Animation, Technical Directing, Computer Programming, Art, and Graphic Design. Pixar employees that work towards the animation have some level of computer animation or graphics. Dreamworks is located in southern California, and look for animation, art or any skilled position in design/computer work.

Now, the only challenge is list of challenges. What? The biggest challenge is to make it, obviously. But there are hundreds if not thousands of mini challenges as stepping stones, if I may, to achieve the final and total goal. The challenge at hand is to find the college(s) that have best interest to both me and these super organizations. I will save you the fun part and leave out the list I've organized that has some of these requirements met. Some are located in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and even Canada! Some colleges are USC, NYU, Academy of Art, CIT, Brown, and other Art/Design schools. Most of the colleges are either Art based, or Computer programmed. That's a given, hopefully...

The only problem and grey patch in all this is that I don't know where to begin. I could enroll in fifty different classes directed towards the Disney/Dreamworks fantasy future, but will that work? Every journey starts with a first step, but where is that first step needed for me? I could take one class and master it and get just as lucky. The only problem is the first step: What college? What courses? Who to contact? What can you do but trust your gut, follow your heart. I feel in order to become the professional that I have dreamed about, I need to take certain classes that specifically branch towards the position of "Title Creator" or "Word Maker". The title isn't necessary right now, mostly because I don't know it. The first step must be taken, but Where? Only time will tell.

Karl K.


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