Opus 12 No. 193 From Thursday Afternooon

As a artist I am lucky, I have a great job at a toy company, I design packaging. I am essentially required to play with toys at work. That said, I really want to go back to school, I want to find something more useful to do. Packaging is thrown away a little bit to soon for my future minded self. I want to pursue something that will allow me to make a measurable change in the way things are. I am interested in studying law and the arts with an emphisis on tecnology. This is where you come in.

Being a rather unique individual. I can offer difference of opinion, an artistic viewpoint that is currently missing from your student body.

Piggy Bank.

We are particularly interested in your motivation for studying law

Long ago I, as we all had, my first day of school. I caught the bus to Cornish College of the Arts where I was a freshman, art school was an excellent choice for my first day of classes. I was lucky enough to enroll in the school right as it moved to a new campus, I was immersed in the art community. I made up my mind right away that if I was going to be an artist I would need some knowledge of the contracts I would be facing as an art professionals. This mindset brought about an interesting result. The humanities department offered the class I proposed junior year, I loved it. I continued my art degree finishing with a project on the ethics of using found art in projects. I realized I did not want to stop learning, I also didn't want to stop studying law.

I could be an asset to the school, I'm involved in a great creative field, my unique background, artistic viewpoint are definitely not normal. This would make the the perfect candidate to provide your school with valuable diversity. Which you could insert into your diversity piggy bank, and tada.. Your diversity stocks would be up this year.. ? alright. I'm done.. clearly I should have stopped when I decided to write about piggy banks, if it helps the one I'm thinking of is green with cute little white spots.


If you are a college senior or recent graduate
you may wish to mention your work history and extracurricular activities.

work history is crazy, extracurricular activities,
participation in Washington State Achievers Alumni Association
Soccer.

clear concise compelling, (boy do their like their c's)

keep it under 3 pages, ish. (1.75 spaced or so)

Lost in the road

The grass was particularly high, I knew that, but for some reason I was having no difficulty making my way, maybe it was because I am on a dirt path. I caught a ride on a bus as a plummeted down the road, I soon regretted that decision I was soon holding on for my life, trying to alert the driver of my presence while holding onto the grass growing up the sides, and pull my self to the roof where at least there was something a little bit more substantial to hold onto. The driver had other ideas, I began to worry, floating as if in space completely horizontally around a corner before being pulled back to the surface as if falling, however, I was able to finally make my way to the top, a little bit out of breath, I was now attempting to lower myself over the front window, hoping a small flailing arm might distract him from his decided attempts of suicide, I was even more distracted at this point realizing we were rapidly getting larger in comparison the planet, what wait, it was grass earlier, I was being hurtled into outer space on the top of a motor home, This was unfortunate, another reason you should hitch-hike, but honestly I couldn't remember what I was doing there in the first place. I guess space isn't so bad if you think about it, other than it being slightly chilly. Finally out of utter desperation I flung my body over the room and grabbed his wind sheild wiper.. nothing I started pounding on the window, That brought the man to a decided halt. I sat in the motor home, he grabbed something that resembled the milky way, hey girl where are you going, "I dunno", you know how to use one of these, and hey I did. "yes" he handed it to me, after struggling with it for a few seconds he said you sure you know how to use that, "sure but umm... how do you turn it on"

Financially disadvantaged

What many would call a disadvantage I would consider an advantage. My family was poor. My dad was a logger and my mom stayed at home. We made under the poverty level for a small family but small we were not. I have 5 siblings. My parents decided they couldn't afford to send us to school. Every one of my siblings were home schooled up to and in most cases through high school. I learned how to do things I never would have going to public school in addition to learning traditional subjects I also learned how to milk, garden, cook, bake, sew, can, fence. Some of these skills may not have direct application to my career but the less substantial things I learned have put me at an advantage in many situations.

I may have never learned these skills if we weren't poor, so while some may consider it disadvantaged, I beg to differ.

I am still discovering the lessons I learned at home, and applying them to my life.

Taking another perspective

I am payed to play with toys, all day. Ok that may not be entirely true but.. that is what I do mostly. I am a Graphic Designer at a company called Toysmith, I create packaging design. The environment I've entered into is very friendly I work with some great people, I work both individually and in a team to accomplish various projects.

School:

I very much miss school, the mental stimulation it provided and the fantastic environment, Our school has these huge windows, I miss spending all day in natural light. Not to mention the lights they did have installed were fantastic. While I was still at school I realized I wasn't ready to stop learning new things, my interest in law perked during a class I instigated(has negative reflection). The conclusion I derived was that I should continue my education, merging my artistic focus with the law profession. I believe I could add valuable insight to the school my different mind set, that was constructed not only from my unique upbringing, but especially from my experience with art.

I am driven to keep going by not only my innate curiosity but also that I want to accomplish something useful. Useful as in implementing positive change. What I am doing now is engaging, interesting, rewarding, artistic, and creative. It is not useful.

found: personal statement

I must learn, It's a neccesity for me, I need to know new stuff, I come from an educated family always below the poverty line, my mom runs a .org my dad was a social worker, construction, logging/retired. I always thought you have control over every action you take, weighing the concequences, considering the posabilities, A person gets lucky becuase they prepare for the situation to arise. Study, and the pop quiz won't kill you. Pack your lunch, you won't have to buy it. Get good grades, get into college, work, get paid, have enough money for rent. I always pick what I'm going to do and then do whatever I have to in order to accomplish this. Most of the time it just involves a terrific amount of work, if you want an A you have to put in more effort than other people are willing to.

Paying attention

I haven't been paying attention, and I should be, I have talked about how much time I spend in work related activities every day and it does take up alot of time, and I actually think going to work makes me more tired than it should, simply because I am so unstimulated, take the 9 hours I am required to spend in the building plus the 40 minutes on each side to drive, provided I don't hit traffic or stop anywhere for anything and you have just about 10.5 hours per day, then I play soccer 2-3 time a week, I stop by the grocery store, try to be social over the weekends, while finding an apartment and searching craigslist, going to the doctors, dentists, not to include just daily still a person does like, you know eating, or taking showers, not to mention my car needs propped up on a semi regular basis, so that's 4-5 hours on the weekends, then I come to in the middle of january and realize despite the fact that all of these applications should have been in already. In OCTOBER!!!! what was a waiting for? now everything comes to head at the absolute last moment, and it hurts, know that I could have done better, I should have done better on everything, and then remember how much it didn't matter at all that I re took my lsat, in fact it lowered my score. That hurt, how I absolutely blasted my test, now here I am in January, how many months later, finally coming to the realization, I'm just frankly late, I'm slowly falling behind, I haven't been on this, since I started doing it, I just need to become more efficient with my time. less driving, and fun, more writing.

USC

We are particularly interested in your motivation for studying law

sadly and quite honestly I'm bored, maybe that's not exactly what they are looking for maybe the feelings I have are closer to dissatisfaction, dissapointment, restlessness

your academic background, and qualities you possess that may enhance diversity

hahaha.. well we all know the list there, small town, art student, home schooled, economically disadvantaged.. ect.

If you are a college senior or recent graduate
you may wish to mention your work history and extracurricular activities.

work history is crazy, extracurricular activities,
participation in Washington State Achievers Alumni Association
Soccer.

clear concise compelling, (boy do their like their c's)

keep it under 3 pages, ish. (1.75 spaced or so)

The Force

A lot of these things I'm writing seem incredibly forced, and it's because it is, I'm trying to portray something that I am not sure I even believe myself, especially when it comes to the fact that I was poor, I more consider that to be an advantage, becuase we couldn't afford meat I learned out to build fences, feed animals, milk cows and goats, give medicine, keep grain, we actually had a granary, we picked apples raised corn, potatoes, canned, all these things I wouldn't have done if I would have been well off. So I don't consider it a disadvantage at this point, I learned to much from the experience for it to be a disadvantage. There we go there is the truth, although I am not sure exactly how useful it is to be able to can jam, or milk cows in the life I'm leading but still, I know how. So maybe I didn't get a pile of video consoles and never had cable tv, maybe I only owned 5 cds, and didn't go to the movie until I took myself. Most of the time I wore my shoes until they fell off, and I had to share winter boots with my brothers and sister. I still consider myself to be incredible lucky to have been able to experience everything that I did, up to and including dragging out of bed in the morning in the middle of December to walk up the hill and feed the sheep. What about school did I want to go? well my Mom said I could decide after middle school, I decided to stay out, I considered actually being in classes to be a waste of time, I'd rather do my work at home, and play with Legos, learn piano, take dance classes, play soccer, and of course raise animals. In the end my childhood was carefree, get up feed and milk the goats, feed the cows and sheep, feed the chickens, gather the eggs, clean the house, do my homework and by 2 in the afternoon my siblings and I were wandering around outside having adventures and playing games. I was horribly disadvantaged¿. Financially my family did struggle my dad was a logger, my mom stayed at home to teach and take care of us, we never had much money, but it just didn't matter.

Splashing snow

Meanwhile, far far away in a distant corner of reality, where things are a little bit bent, sat a small ??? fish I guess would be the best way to describe it, although it seemed to morph and most of the it's time it spent flittering on transparent wings from one pointy flower to another. Due to perspective the 3 cm long "fish" appeared to be 8 ft. tall. That is just the way things are in the corner of reality, it strongly relates to the island of lost toys, this fish of mine, is unable to break out of the box because as we both know humans possess the most amazing power of disbelief. By dening their existance reality bends, creating folds, and twists, the flats planes of reality where we all live, and the pockets and nooks that contain all else. each fantasy in it's own corner of uneality.

Personal statement 10

life is like peanut butter and jelly, smelly, sticky, sweet, and it stains your shirt.

Act like what you want to be and that is what you will become, assume an attitude of giving, and you will become a philanthropist, assume an attitude of investment and you will become an entrepreneur. I want to become both of those things, the sooner the better, nothing like starting now.


I am most pushed by my want to learn, I believe learning is never a waste, it difficult for me to think, borrowing more money for school, my current debt already seems so massive, I grew up in a small town and my family stretched money, grew our own vegetables, baked our own bread, canned, sewed. So it's hard for me to sit down and think about borrowing tens of thousands of dollars, in order to have any return you must make an investment and the first step towards becoming an entrepreneur. One thing I can say about my upbringing, I am used to work, doing lots of it and doing a good job the first time, if you are going to build a fence do it right the first time and you won't have to spend all afternoon chasing the goats over 10 acres of woodland. Weren't you at school?, and to that question the answer was honestly no, I didn't go to school, when I didn't really set food into a classroom until I took drivers ed. My first day of school came right after my freshman orientation to Cornish College of the Arts. I remember looking around the room and laughing to myself, I spent so much time outside in Tonasket WA everybody else looked pale, an introduction to what I would look after 4 years, inside Cornish College of the Arts. During my education at Cornish I learned many things, some of them I believe to be exceptionally personally useful, some however I have no idea where they will apply to my life. The most influential people on my life were Brian Kennedy in the design department and Joseph Brotherton who is a member of the board of trustees but I had the privilege of taking a class with, a class that requested the existence of. I spent many hours of my month in conversation with Brian over every fiber of the student existence, from class size, schedule, the direction of the classes, grading, Brian helped me keep a lighter attitude about it, he always gave the best advice, encouraging me to push myself to the limit artistically and personally. When I took Brothertons class I got the opportunity to meet a type of person I had never really gotten the chance to talk to a lawyer. The most interesting thing we talked about in his class was rhetoric, inflection, context, how the way you say things colors what you say. As it strongly relates to my style of art, portraying a feeling, I was fascinated by it. My personal goal is to surprise people, bring new thoughts into light, I was interested in the way that language can influence the way we respond to a situation.

What if..

Maybe I should have chosen the practical, maybe I should have gone to become an engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, maybe I should still, I could easily combine those skills with the ones I have, math comes easily so does logic, maybe law isn't the correct answer either, maybe I should be a mathematical genius, I just don't know anymore, but I think it suffices to say, I want to do something. something else.

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I got one

A letter, I have one! I've been waiting so long, and now I have one.. I'm so fucking excited.

YAY!!!

1 Down, 2 to go :)

woooo wooo

huge relief

unfortunately, only 7 days to go before I need them all. eh, I have one, that's a trillion times better than I was doing yesterday.

apartment searching..

Still looking but I may have found a possibility, it's located on cap hill, would make it significantly easier to go to bars lol. I might actually start walking places again which would be nice. I really want to start playing sims again but really I have a better idea, do work take a nice relaxing weekend off to get things done, and play sims :D wait.. that wasn't part of my original plan, it eats my brain!.

personalstatement 9

I can't help, but to want to apply art to all this, make the letter into art, number each word, print on A-4 paper, gold leaf my signature, use prestigious typefaces, add irony, insert a sense of performance into a letter, I don't know how helpful it would be though to be talking along and then say "(57)" or maybe, pick a particular kind of ivory paper, play off the cliques, I can't help my artistic side, my visual side, so how if I lay all that aside, do I communicate myself, when all I have been concentrating on is visual expression?

personal statment 8

What is a demonstration of academic excellence is it a letter, or a series of letters, is it a percentage, a number, or is it the determination of a student to learn, to take risks and engage in the educational process completely and without reservations. I believe that many things follow this the esteem or your teachers, the respect of your classmates, and he ability to learn quickly, an unintended effect of entering into class entirely is grades, percentages, numbers and good ones if I may say. The negative aspects of this of course are those walls you hit, the ones, some call it senioritis, but I think it's simply your mind working to bend past a certain point once you have intensively studied one this for years on end, you m ind decides it's had enough, and just simply does not comprehend what else it can learn, and for that reason senior year was the hardest one, but it was also very informative. Where we are were let go to sort things out for ourselves but the choices where so abundant it is paralyzing. Finally you come across something that makes sense, something that attracts your interest something to burry yourself in, and suddenly it all comes together and you will talk the ear off of anyone who will listen excitedly outlining the subtle details. Those agonizing moments of indecision are forgotten, the project comes together as something you can be proud of, your senior project the culmination of your education, but after such an addictive process how can you stop will you ever again be satisfied with what you were hoping for before the excitement the mind bend, can the ordinary day to day ever be enough, should it be enough? I say no, take yourself especially your mind to the absolute edge of your potential and never look back. But you have to want it, you have to love it, whenever you feel is the time to stop it when it is time to stop I however know, that time has not come for me. I am not ready, nor willing to stop. I know I'm am going to do something important I'm just pushing to prepare myself for it.

Personal Statement 6

You may wonder why me, the odds of me getting in is low, considerably lower, than even people with slightly lower grades, definitely lower than those with slightly higher grades, why me, I wonder this as well. I had an epiphany of sorts, maybe I don't have the best grades in the world, maybe I don't have the best lsat score in the world, but I have dedicated myself to do well, and i have no interest in getting a job and making money, I realize this is an ideal, but I desperately want to do something good with my life, something that makes marked changes, that you can see on peoples faces, I realized when I was in college that while making more is nice, a person can live on very little, people all over the world live on a very small percentage of what I lived on, and still, now that I make more I spend it all much more quickly than I ever did when my income was restricted. I don't just want a whole bunch of money, although I could probably make a whole bunch with a law degree that's just not what I'm in it for. And in the end I will get in, not because of my grades, or my standardized test scores, but because of my determination, dedication, and the need to serve a cause greater than myself.