4Q20

We would be ignorant to think that we are the only form of life that will ever or has ever lived in the entire course of the history of the galaxy.  Obviously there are beings out there that will hopefully one day make contact with us.  As for Mars, I do not think it harbors as much life as some of the other  planets or moons we know about, and part of me thinks we need to figure out our problems on Earth before we start looking at colonizing the red planet.

4Q19

My favorite store is H&M.  Even though they do have some shady ways of making their products, I still think they look good.  It's cheap too, which is due to the child labor they enforce.  I'm aware of how bad it is, but I cannot lie, I love the store.

4Q18

I took a class called Twentieth Century Classics once, and I really felt that the class was not handled as well as it could've been.  It was a small class, which I prefer because it allows the teacher to get a better interaction with the students.

4Q17

Originality is the vehicle for creativity.  No one book and be special without originality, or every book would be the same.  As a person, I think I have some originality.  I don't match my socks, I drive one of the most expensive cars in the lot, and I try to only eat meat on Tuesdays (no other time of the week).  I don't know about you, but I think those things separate myself from the rest of the people I am forced to see everyday.

4Q16

I never end up dealing with stress well, as I hope the rest of my peers feel the same way.  School is stressful.  Parental pressure is stressful.  College application was stressful.  All of these things happen during a crucial time in my own development, in both mental and creative respects.  Its just all super scresssssfuuuuulllllll

4Q15

My parents taught me my values.  I have not had a teacher that I have really connected with either, so they didn't teach me values.  I don't go to church and I am very actively non-religious, so I did not learn any 'values' there.  My parents are great, and they have taught me everything that I know.

4Q14

I wish that I my college tuition would be paid, my nose to never get stuffy again, and to have a job that gives me an opportunity to live somewhere that is not in America, unless it is in New York City.

4Q13

My ideal mom and dad are the ones I already have.  I'm not one of those people who hates their parents, I really do admire them as people.  They treat me like an adult, and they always have.  I've never really been in trouble, probably because they beat me so hard as a kid.  That was a joke.  But with every joke comes a little truth I suppose.

4Q12

The first, obviously.  How could anyone in this class say anything otherwise?  I'm just about to go to college.  Until I graduate and find a job, I feel the second act will start.  But then again, how can anyone ever know which act you are in until it has passed.  You have to be able to recognize a change in one act to another to understand which act you used to be in.

When I moved here a year ago, I was completely uprooted from my friends and people that I knew well.  I knew nobody here.  Absolutely nobody, and that made me cynical, I feel.  I realized that high school is one big sham honestly, that it is one of the least important times in your life.  People always tell me high school, or ever college for that matter, is the best time of your life.  How can you say that?  Your life must be terrible if high school was the best time of your life.  There is no reason why it should be.  None of it means anything compared to the time after you graduate college and get a job.  High school is just a doorway to college.  That's all.  Personally, and I know nobody will agree with me on this, but I think the social aspect of schooling is not as important as everyone thinks it is.  We like to think that everyone cares about everyone in high school, but nobody does.  Nobody cares, like A Bronx Tale.  You think I really care about trivial things now that everyone makes the biggest deal over?  Of course not.  Why should I care about where the party is or how drunk everyone was there.  In 2 months time, I won't even see you for 7 hours a day.  High school is just a stepping stone, a small ass pebble in the grand scheme of life.

People will say that high school is important, and it is as an academic standpoint, nothing else.  Take an average adult and ask them if they are still really good friends with anyone from high school.  I bet you the vast majority would say no.  You think i would be 'friends' with any of the people I see in a given day at this school?  I am 'friends' with you because there is no other option.  I am forced to be nice to you.  Some of you are so weird and freak me out that I don't even feel comfortable around you.  Some people are so gross that I shutter to think of a time when the wind casts their stench upon me.  Some of you are so terrible and mean that I am surprised anyone hangs out with them.  People need to think prolepticly while in high school.  They need to look forward towards college and really growing as an individual.

All this might send some red flags up, and you might think that I am "unstable."  I can assure you I am not.  I am just tired.  I'm just stressed.  I'm just ready to get out of the 'best time of my life.'

There you go, Mr. Drago, Here's something longer than two sentences.  Take from it what you will.

4Q11

I think it is tough for me to answer this question because I have not experienced true love.  I cannot say one way or another because I have not had the opportunity to be a part of something as special and intense as true love.

4Q10

How about a remake of Dead Poets Society, where a teacher takes a class of unmotivated students and turns them into artists.  That could've happened to me in real life but my teacher decided not to use the unlimited potential of the class to do so...oh well.  I could've had a real John Keating.  But anyways, the students are highly unmotivated except for one, who really enjoys the teacher.  They form a connection based upon their love of classic literature.  The teacher is constantly pushing the kid to create and thrive in his artistic endeavors, so much so that the kid has a mental breakdown and the teacher is fired.  I really love the movie Dead Poets Society, if it was not obvious already.

4Q9

What really grinds my gears?  When teachers don't know how to teach, when they demean their students, and when they make it clear who the like and do not like in the class. AND, when they think they are almost divine just because they are the teacher.  Teachers need to find a connection with the student, and I have teachers who do not.

4Q8

How could someone not value trust in a relationship?

4Q7

My favorite birthday is the one that happens every year...on July 2nd...every month of July...on the 2nd day of that month...every year.

4Q6

I will probably not get a job over the summer because I will be too busy breaking the world record for the most amount of time without sleep, which is 12 days.  Having a job will interfere with my awakeness, so therefore I cannot do it.  I will also try to find my own artistic aesthetic during the summer, so that will take up most of my time.

4Q5

Taking a risk involves trying something that is foreign or new to you, so obviously it would advance the story in such a way.  Because the character is trying something new, there is a new thing being incorporated into the story.  As far as conflict, risk often times results in victory, however, I do not entirely believe that this is a real world application.

4Q4

My favorite photo is a picture of Stanley Kubrick directing a movie.  It has him pointing at various cameras, and I really like how it encapsulates his directing style.  He is one of my main inspirations for the creative process, and I feel very personal with the photo.

4Q3

I do not like people telling me how I should create, in fact I find it very counterproductive towards my goals.  I am self-driven to complete and create art, and I do not need someone telling me how I should create MY art, because then it no longer feels like MY art.  A little bump in the right direction is not bad, and neither is a little criticism, but going past that is too far.  Let me figure it out of my own. Let me fail.  Let me make a fool of myself so that I will know what to do next time.

4Q2

Dialogue plays a huge role in the development of playwriting, as it is the main way the story is conveyed.  Unlike a novel or a short story, the play is driven by the dialogue with very few stage directions really.  Shakespearean plays are almost all dialogue and has hardly any stage directions at all, with the exception of conveying who has entered the scene or who has left.

4Q1

I have been to 4 plays in New York City: Wicked twice, and the Lion King twice.  They were both amazing, and I have no complaints.  Though, if I had to pick between writing a live play or a screenplay for a movie, I would pick the screenplay.  I feel like there is so much more you can do with a movie as to a play.