My Future Plans

OK for my entire life I've been encouraged to make goals and write them down. Recently, this has been pressed upon me even more than before as I am getting closer to college and adult-hood. I thought I'd share some plans of mine (not too personal that is) and explain how I plan to accomplish them and such.

1) Go to BYU Idaho
2) Major in film making
3) Publish a book before I graduate college
4) Get married before age 27

NUMBER ONE:
I've always wanted to go to BYU since I knew it existed, but I always wanted to go to Provo. Idaho never seemed very appealing to me and I didn't know that there was one in Hawaii until I was like 13 or 14. I have always had my eyes set on Provo. Always, that is, until last year. I took the SAT and ACT last year and both reported that Idaho was a better match for me than Provo. That was the roots of my change of mind and I continued thinking about it for the rest of the year. I was hesitant to tell my friends about my desires to attend Idaho as they all wanted to go to Provo, so I only hinted at it every once in a while. Suddenly, practically all of them had a sudden change of mind and wanted to go to Idaho rather than Provo. Our... well at least my mind was set after a presentation on all the church schools. Idaho has a 97% acceptance rate. That seemed more appealing to me since I had received minimal grades my Junior year.

Although colleges look at your GPA from your sophmore and junior year, I am striving to do much better in school this year as a senior. I am planning on doing the school play this spring so that I have some extracurricular activities to boast about (for lack of a better term). I am hoping to attend Idaho, but if I don't get in, then I hope to make it into one of the BYU's.

NUMBER TWO:
My talent/love for movie making began when I was about 11. That was when I first discovered YouTube. I loved all the movies made and I wanted to try it for myself. I didn't write any material, nor did I actually film myself doing anything. It all started with me just putting music to clips of The Princess Bride. Therefore, my first projects were only developing my editing skills. My first real project was when I was about 13. The Beehives were going to make a movie for mutual and the presidency was in charge of writing, filming, and producing it. I helped write the script, cast the characters, put together costumes, and I even wrote an entire song (since it was going to be a musical). We utilized my dad's video camera and I was one of the directors. I edited it by myself (my first experience with iMovie). My first experience of a music video was over summer vacation the following year. I was home alone almost all day every day for a week, so I got bored. I randomly decided to make a video to Veggietales' The Hairbrush Song, starring only me and filmed by me. I found that I really enjoyed doing this and proceeded to make a video to almost all the Veggietales songs. Since then, I have written my own material (including the A Pirate's Life For Me trilogy) as well as made other music videos.

Making movies is one of (if not my number one) my favorite pastimes. I can get so into it and I love everything about it. Therefore, it makes sense for me to decide to pursue this in college. I can't decide which particular field I want, but I'll soon find out. Also, I decided on this because I have noticed that I am practically cut out to be in the movie business. I mean, I love watching movies and I love everything about them (lighting, camera movement, story, characters, actors, and so on.), I have knowledge of music, art, and technology (to an extent), I have a loud voice (I don't usually use it, but I have one), I know what makes a good story, I can take control but I can also work in a team, I am a phenomenologist, and I know there are other traits that I can't think of at the moment.

In order to fully prepare for my potential major and (possibly) my career, I am currently taking Teledramatic Arts. Tele Arts covers practically everything involved in movie making, giving me experience in several fields.

NUMBER THREE:
You can read all about my rejected manuscript in a past post as well as my progress. I am rewriting it and I plan on submitting it elsewhere once I'm in college. It's easier for authors if they are at least attending college, if not already graduated, if they want to publish something. I will not give up on Shaken Forever, I will keep rewriting it until it's accepted. I am determined to have some sort of work published before I graduate college, even if it's not Shaken Forever.

NUMBER FOUR:
There's not much to say on this. I am just determined to beat my dad's age. Also I've figured that the older I get without getting married, the higher chance I have of marrying a guy younger than me (which I don't want) because all guys my age or older will be married before they're thirty. I am counting on my patriarchal blessing's words that I will meet a worthy YOUNG man. If I do what I'm supposed to, I'm assuming I will get married before thirty (not that thirty is old, thirty it's just the marking point of middle age). However this all depends on Heavenly Father's idea of "young".