USC Fall 2009 (2 Viewers)

[ThePerk]

Aww thanks Greg! We can dwell in the hesitation together then! So where are you transferring from?
Oh and thank you redic! It's nice to know that at least one graduate notices the little guys! =]

 

[Astantax]

Thanks, Timkido!!

Oh, and @ Perk and Greg - We notice, and we feel your pain. The waiting game is the worst. We're all wrapped up in it. Keep the faith!

 

[MoeFab]

Congrats Astantax!! See ya next year

 

[Astantax]

I can hardly wait, MoeFab!

 

[smell_the_glove]

Hey Guys, I have NOT been rejected! Don't assume things just yet! Haha! It's so sweet to be gone a whole, long, nerve-racking day (just had an interview with UCLA) to come back to such wonderful givings of love and all that junk! You guys are really so fantastic! I can't say I dislike any one of you. Now that is something unique on an internet forum!

But yes, no news yet. I was so ready to get something in the mail today or at least a status change, but alas!--nothing. I hope we all have spots; it would really be awesome to see all your puppy dog faces in class, knowing just what we've been through for months and months. And I've made up my mind, if not this year, next year. I'm not giving up on my dreams, goddamnit! And if I hear a peep from any of you of giving up, I'm gonna have to smack your ***** up.

Man, I'm way too sappy. I almost cried during my interview.

 

[Filipe]

Hey Perk, we do notice you! Good luck to you too.

You should also check the forum for the Undergraduate Film Schools (http://forums.studentfilms.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/5486066451). I'm sure you'll find other applicants there.

 

[Gregory D. Goyins]

Filipe, did you just send us over to the kiddie pool? LOL.

Three months more to go for us transfers.

You guys hang in there.
STG/Filipe/and everyone else frequenting their mailboxes digital or otherwise way too much: I'm so rooting for you.

And I'm rooting for me and Perk too.

For me slightly louder.

Namaste.

G

 

[Sonia]

The kiddie pool is where all the fun really is, Greg. But you & Perk should stay here & hang out.

Timkido, although I filled out my FAFSA a month ago, I'm only now starting to calculate exactly how much this is going to cost and how federal loans work and everything. Feel free to vent if you're stressed about it! But don't stress, don't stress.

STG, I just read about your UCLA interview & really, really want you to get some good news, from somewhere. Good luck today, everyone!

Is anyone going to First Look?

 

[Filipe]

Hey Greg,

you're more than welcome to stay here with us "grown ups". But you should definitely check the kiddie pool as well.

That's the good thing about being online: you can be everywhere at the same time!

I'm rooting for you too!

 

[timkido]

@Sonia

I"M NOT STRESSED. WHY? DO I LOOK STRESSED? WHY WOULD I BE STRESSED?! IT"S ONLY MY FUTURE.... OH GOD, I HAVEN"T SLEPT RIGHT IN 3 DAYS.. .


haha I came in extra late to work just to see if the mailman had something..

 

[xavier039]

I'm about to leave work just to go home and check my mailbox.

 

[cracker]

dude... you have to chill out.. this is only graduate school. Do you really think a studio/producer is gonna care a rats ass that you went to so and so, and so and so. they're gonna look at your script. your voice. your writing. not your credentials. If you figure it out, between usc, afi and ucla, that's what 75 graduates a year. where the heck do all the OTHER talented writers from Hollywood and beyond get their start?

just keep writing. no paper on the wall is gonna make you a better writer. no two year program is gonna transform you into the next shane black. most scripts I read aren't even from graduates, they are from normal people. I could cite them all, starting from the playwrights in the 20s and 30s... but the material I did read from graduates???... all the how to write a screenplay books.

so CHILLAXON. again, this is just graduate school. get some LIFE EXPEREIENCE. in your 20s you know nothing. especially if you just came out of your BA and did some web design moonlighting on the side. Like..your ideas are gonna be pretty worldly......listen, write your heart out..point in case, the great buck howard.

here's a great qoute: 'those who can, do. those who can't, don't. those that can't do either, cite their credentials.

THIS IS NOT YOUR FUTURE. This is a school.
Why not write a script about the experience rather than just stress about it.. like orange county...

you may not agree, but this comes from the school of real life. meet people. have a vault of character archetypes ready to be plucked. sitting in a writing room for two years, with mostly white privileged folk, will not give you the impetus to write universal characters that have meaning and journeys that inspire and change. Unless of course, you wanna teach or write another book on how to rewrite your script... if that's the case.. cya in Barnes and Nobles!

Originally posted by timkido:
@Sonia

I"M NOT STRESSED. WHY? DO I LOOK STRESSED? WHY WOULD I BE STRESSED?! IT"S ONLY MY FUTURE.... OH GOD, I HAVEN"T SLEPT RIGHT IN 3 DAYS.. .

 

[Gregory D. Goyins]

Sorry about that folks.

The left side of my brain is given to very random negative, and oftimes, piously condescending outbursts. It is so strong and well developed in fact that it now has gone as far as to solicit support and manifest its causes in other unwitting Internet users posts.

As evidenced by that previous post.

If you see these in the future in your travels through Cyberspace, know that it is me. Feel free to ignore them and know that I am working diligently to rectify the problem.

So for that I must apologize.

The right side of my brain keeps telling the left to read the Theodore Roosevelt "qoute" from "The Man in the Arena" speech... you know the one that starts:...

"It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

But sometimes it doesn't listen. The left side of my brain has a hard time with my right-sided creativity. In actuality, it's angry that we have actually made a decision without its input.

Enough of the PSA...

...And now back to our regularly scheduled programming....

So I am wondering when the mailman will have my acceptance letter....May or June.....?

G

 

[Suzako]

cracker,

I can only speak for myself but I think its possible to fully understand that grad school is not magic and to still be stressing about an application.

For me, its just the feeling of limbo that I hate. I am certainly still writing scripts and still working to make connections and, just well, working. But several big decisions (like where I will be living) rest upon hearing a yay or a nay from a school. Hence, stress. Just like applying to a job is stressful.

There's no need to berate people for venting that they are nervous on a forum for people who are applying to grad school. People have many different reasons for wanting to go to school and its silly to judge them on it, just as its silly to think grad school will automatically lead to a career.

 

[cracker]

i'm not berating...this is just school. nervous is normal....not sleeping for three days isnt...

Originally posted by Suzako:
cracker,

I can only speak for myself but I think its possible to fully understand that grad school is not magic and to still be stressing about an application.

For me, its just the feeling of limbo that I hate. I am certainly still writing scripts and still working to make connections and, just well, working. But several big decisions (like where I will be living) rest upon hearing a yay or a nay from a school. Hence, stress. Just like applying to a job is stressful.

There's no need to berate people for venting that they are nervous on a forum for people who are applying to grad school. People have many different reasons for wanting to go to school and its silly to judge them on it, just as its silly to think grad school will automatically lead to a career.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

Seconded, Suzako.

Furthermore, I don't think anyone thinks grad school is the magic bullet. Do any of you think you're going to magically be transformed into someone you are not?

No.

Grad school simply affords people the time to pursue their passions in an environment that is purpose-built for just that. It seems like you have jumped to a massive conclusion about everyone on here, cracker, and it seems to not be correct.

This is a lot of people's future, even if it's only the immediate future of where we'll be laying our head at the end of the night, taking our meals, and what we'll be doing during the day.

 

[redic]

Everyone is on different stages on the path of their journey. But I know everyone is investing a lot of their emotion, time and finance to attending USC. And that is why we hear a lot of anxiety, stress and fear from people. Can't blame us for the emotions we are feeling.

I think your point is basically let's keep some perspective on this whole process. I agree. But I also think we all understand there are bigger things out there and this is not life and death.

It helps to know people don't think I'm too young or I'm too old or I'm too this or that. Because we all understand how vulnerable this entire process makes you because it is so subjective.

 

[Neville26]

STG, it's only Tuesday, right? lol

And glad to hear the interview at UCLA went well. Tears can be good.

 

[Sonia]

Perspective is good. I think we all have a reasonable amount. But this forum is a place where it's OK to express and even to exaggerate ("not sleeping for 3 days") our occasional lapses in perspective about film school. We're passionate. Sometimes overly so””but I like that.

I'm sure my "real world" friends are sick of dealing with my stress, and it's nice to come here and talk with people who genuinely care about what I'm going through because they're going through the same.

I don't see anything wrong with that.

I'm glad you said "magic bullet," Kiernan, because it brings my mind back to what's really important: our smoothies.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

I am so ready for smoothie day.