After high school graduation, I decided to go to community college instead of a four year school. There were two reasons for this. The first reason was community college was less expensive to take my required general education classes. If it wasn’t for grants and loans, I wouldn’t have been able to go to school. The second reason was that it gave me the chance to take some courses in my desired major (film) in order to see if it was truly the career direction I wanted to follow.
During those three years at Orange Coast College, I was on the dean’s list almost every semester I was there and was actively involved with two honor societies. I was …show more content…
Unfortunately, I did not get accepted into the film program. I realized that there was another path that I could choose. After doing some research into all the different majors of film and theater, I finally found one that suited me the best... a major in theatre arts. With this major I found that I’m able to take a more specific path of learning. Before I’m able to switch my major, I have to take classes that I would have not been able to before. For example, I am taking design classes which are not required classes as a film production major. Taking these additional classes, will enable me to use the assignments in order to build my