【正文】 I needed to truly push my creative and intellectual limits if I ever I were to master the craft of filmmaking. After seeing the quality, diversity, and pr ofessionalism of NYU graduate student films at a screening last spring, I kn ew NYU could provide me with exactly the skills I find the idea of pa cking 100 strangers in a dark room to watch a piece of film pass through a p rojector to be an incredibly peculiar idea. But in this peculiarity of the a rt lies the miracle, for humans are willing to suspend disbelief and be move d by a character on a screen. The audience can somehow feel what that charac ter feels and learn from that character’s experience. More than just this, f iction also gives the audience the ability to examine different facets of th e human condition. Trust, resentment, affection, flirtation, love, disappoin tment are issues that every human must deal with every day of their lives. T hey are issues that everyone deals with differently. Fiction allows one to e xperiment with putting people in different situations and seeing how they re spond. Writing and directing my own films is my ultimate ambition. I know, h owever, that I am much further along in my development in the art of editing . Siting in the editing room watching every single frame, is one of my passi ons. Every single frame is important, each could change an entire film. Like a mad scientist, with my hair sticking straight up, I work frantically with dozens of sections of film lined up around me. Still, I know where every si ngle section is, every single frame. I spent many hours in the editing room piecing together my last film until I had created something I could be proud of. As the lights turned on and the audience抯 applause died down, I turned to see who had put his hand on my shoulder. It was Jeanyves, my actor sitti ng next to his admiring and grinning father. He said, that was beautiful. At that moment, I felt like a filmmaker. I want to feel that way again. Subject: Speech Therapy While my friends are off va。 the fall induced her labor an d out I popped. In this rather unsophisticated environment, where on Saturda y the second largest city is a packed college football stadium, I somehow de veloped artistic aspirations, but did not have the opportunity to make cultu ral pursuits a major part of my life. At the age of twelve, my father accept ed a job with Levi Strauss and moved the family to Kansas City. At this cruc ial stage in my development, I found the arts fascinating, especially while studying literature in junior high. Unlike the other students who flocked to the hundreds of early eighties Spring Break movies, I developed a discrimin ating taste and longed for the quality I would find in a Stanley Kubrick fil m. At night, tackling Crime and Punishment or watching Dr. Strangelove took precedence over arcades and carried my love for literature with m e when I attended the University of Kansas. I also studied economics, which bined my interests in philosophy, history and mathematics. However, while I studied economics for somewhat practical reasons and never thought of the discipline as pelling enough to devote my entire life to, my interests i n film and music began to mature. Exposed to the unconventional films of Hal Hartley, Mike Leigh, and John Sayles and to the poetic music of Tom Waits a nd Leonard Cohen, I prized their works?brilliant storytelling, and this feat ure inspired my own work and my eventual pursuit of high c ollege loans and a desire to be economically secure, I chose not to pursue m y dreams immediately out of college. I fooled myself into thinking my passio n for filmmaking was just a hobby and that I would be better off pursuing a more 搒erious?career, one with respect and a high salary. As a result, I too k a secure, fortable job as a financial analyst just two weeks out of col lege. My family was proud of me, but I was not proud of myself. I quickly be came restless and began to think seriously about film. After much deliberati on, I knew what I had to do。 I want to make it my life. In addition to maintaining a high GPA throughout my college career, and mak ing the Dean抯 list several times, I have also worked hard as a supervisor a t Brooks Pharmacy for the past five years. Working my own way through colleg e not only demonstrates my determination to gaining a high quality education and the seriousness with which I treat academics, but also attests to my le adership ability, maturity, and responsibility, both as a supervisor and as a student at the University of Rhode Island. My primary goal in applying to your graduate program is to prepare myself for a career in forensic anthrop ology. Interested in furthering the current body of research and in improvin g techniques used in the identification of human remains, I am very mitte d to pursuing forensic anthropology and believe your graduate program in ant hropology will provide me with an excellent foundation in the area of physic al and forensic anthropology. With a Masters and ., I will be well prepa red to lead a very promising career. While I have no doubt the program will push me to my limits, I am confident that I can face the rigorous challenges posed by graduate study and thrive under the demanding environment that adv anced studies entail. From my transcripts, you will see that not only am I a wellbalanced student, I actually thrive in rigorous, upper level courses, courses akin to graduatelevel courses. Armed with the confidence that I can excel at difficult courses, I believe I can achieve the highest level of su ccess and satisfaction by taking the most demanding graduate program availab le. In addition to my ability to excel in the classroom, I have demonstrate d a proficiency in all aspects of conducting research. Research has bee a fundamental