<p>Hello! I am about to be a senior and would appreciate some criticism on my very first essay I have attempted to write for college admissions.
Thank you for those who read it!</p>
<p>The first time I saw my first episode of I love Lucy I was 10 years old. It seems this woman on a black and white screen was pretending to be a clown and was trying to audition for this Cuban bandleader. How could I have been so entranced in a woman getting such laughter and applause? I continued watching the next 5 episodes. The next day I went online doing as much research on this woman on television called “Lucy”. I studied her and other television that came out around the same era. I then started to watch old television that a majority of my peers had never heard of. Everything from Lucille Ball to Mary Tyler Moore, to “Get Smart”and “Laverne and Shirley. I realize now why I am fascinated with not just in classic television, but television in general. Television, much like film or literature reflect our culture and society, what we value or not value and what that says about us. It asks the question, what happened to our culture that made people want to watch reality tv and not sitcoms? It points out the teenagers watching MTV are just like the teenagers who used to watch Dick Clark and Ed Sullivan. I know what is said about television, on how it rots your brain and is no good for you. Though for me, television helped me discover what I wanted to be. I wanted to be as funny as Lucy and idolized like the Fonz, while living in a basement with my best friend. I wanted to go be in this television world where people were always happy and loved each other. Where scenarios were dealt with and worked out. I never wanted to admit that the characters on television weren’t real because I wanted to be just like them. Eventually I came to my senses and started to appreciate television as an art form and not just another “better” world.</p>
<p>…well?</p>