<p>Hello eyeryone.</p>
<p>I want to let everyone know that I will be going to USC School of Cinematic Arts for Fall 2009. I will submit my application in 3 days. I will repost after I have been accepted. Wish me luck. </p>
<p>Sincerely,
Magnum</p>
<p>Which program?</p>
<p>ahh, you’ve read The Secret (Law of Attraction.) Good luck!</p>
<p>haha, very nice. Please do let us know. I’ll see you at USC next fall.</p>
<p>Production is my frist choice, and Critical Studies is my next.</p>
<p>Best. Review. Ever.</p>
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<p>haha, good luck Magnum</p>
<p>haha That’s a real good book. Maybe I can get some time for meditation on top of the camera dolly at USC.</p>
<p>I am with MAGNUM45 on this one.</p>
<p>I have spoken with God…(we’re on a first name basis as of late.)… and he has told me that I too will be transferring to USC SCA’s Screenwriting Program in the Fall of 2009.</p>
<p>He hasn’t quite worked out housing/fin aid thing yet. </p>
<p>And he said he is also afraid that if he releases my acceptance letter before the others that he’ll have to create a(nother) two-headed cow that will be worshiped as a messenger of his by a tribe in Central Amazon Basin in order to balance out the law of Universal Karmic Equivalence. </p>
<p>However, everything else is a go. </p>
<p>He said that I should stop worrying that he has got this (and everything else) handled. </p>
<p>That’s the part I am having trouble with…trusting God… but I guess it’s a message he wants me to pass on. </p>
<p>So…
And as a direct result of this epiphany, I have come to the following resolve:</p>
<p>As of today, I guess I will stop checking my email, the USC website and my snail mailbox. I guess I can start to eat again, perhaps get some sleep, cut down on cigarettes and stop pacing the floor. </p>
<p>I won’t read anymore posts on College Confidential, or Facebook, or Studentfilms. (tomorrow)</p>
<p>I will stop wondering over and over and over again whether my essay in response to the Diderot quote good enough. Or whether it was true or not about what they said about “the short answers”. Or wondering whether it would be best Chinese water torture my professors into telling me what they wrote on my recommendations or to just let it go.</p>
<p>“I will pay more attention in my classes in case they ask for my spring grades.”
(Greg makes an exigent cry for focus here) </p>
<p>“I will be nice to my girlfriend.”
(and here)</p>
<p>“She’s the best.”
(to be repeated in a mirror as mantra)</p>
<p>I can also stop mentally designing software that will allow me to go back in time to rewrite the supplemental materials. All of them…
I just know they won’t get my sense of humor.</p>
<p>But God said he’s got it…I guess I gotta let him give it.
All this sounds good in theory. Let’s see how she works out in practice.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>Namaste, and good luck everyone…</p>
<p>Greg</p>
<p>See you in the fall, Greg.</p>
<p>No, wait - you won’t see this, 'cause you aren’t looking at any more posts. Too busy catering to the girlfriend. Is she going to USC in the fall, too?</p>
<p>I can’t help myself…
I did say “tomorrow”, didn’t I?..
With an option to renegotiate.</p>
<p>I always fancy myself upgrading, “The Girlfriend”…
But I don’t think anyone else’ll have me!</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>She is the best. She comes along for the ride…
Till she dumps me.</p>
<p>See ya in the Fall !!!</p>
<p>If they don’t get your sense of humor, they don’t deserve ya anyway. I mean USC, of course, not the girlfriend. If the girlfriend didn’t, she probably would have dumped you already. Good job repeating the “she is the best” mantra, btw.</p>
<p>Great percipient post, greg. Made my day. If I had anything to do with it, you’d be in. (Sorry, I don’t.)</p>
<p>The best part is designing the software that would allow you to go back in time. I have been working on that too but haven’t gotten all the bugs out yet.</p>
<p>Greg, good luck … but you don’t need any schooling. Just use your native talent and start cranking out romantic comedies, screwball comedies, gross-out comedies, sitcoms, dramadies, Conan O’Brien monologues, Simon Cowell put-downs, whatever. Grab a book, learn how to set the margins, and go for it.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. That would be sooo awesome and a total dream of mine, if only I had the chops for it…</p>
<p>Finally, someone who also applied to the Writing Program at SCA. All I’ve seen so far are those from Animation, Production, and Interactive Media.</p>
<p>greg0629: </p>
<p>What did you send in for the creative works samples (the ones that should have been 20 pages, combined) ?</p>
<p>3 short stories (1 was flash ficition, 2 were short shorts)
2 additional scenes
2 critical essays on art history
4 poems
An excerpt from a feature length screenplay
An excerpt from a research paper on the “History of RKO Studios: Why Money and Art Don’t Mix”
1st chapter of a fiction novel.</p>
<p>There might be something I am leaving out.</p>
<p>A Personal letter: My “Ninth Step” amends to a college girlfriend.</p>
<p>My Autobiographical Essay approach I think was different. It was about how once visited by “The Muse” the initial calling to the art of narrative is hard to shake. Try as one might. It is one of my favorite pieces of my writing. And for me that is especially difficult to admit… I am my very harshest critic. NO? REALLY!!</p>
<p>I answered the Diderot quote.</p>
<p>My two scenes were:</p>
<p>For Two people “get” trapped on an elevator New Year’s Eve: A (male, younger) blue collar Yankees fanatic, a security guard at an apartment building where there is a New Year’s Eve party and a white collar (female, older) snobbish Boston Red Soxs fan. Funny stuff.</p>
<p>For one person wants to leave the other doesn’t want the first to go:
A heroin addict who has just robbed a major drug dealer returns home and doesn’t want his prostitute girlfriend to leave the apartment to go get high. I used an answering machine in the background for additional character exposition. Also the baby they share together is awake and crying. And a social worker comes to the door. Clever.</p>
<p>My emotional moment was (another piece of flash fiction, really) when I was in a halfway house, being estranged from my family for years and I got the news that my father had just died.</p>
<p>And you?</p>
<p>Namaste,
Greg</p>
<p>hey everyone -
does anyone know when transfers will be hearing from USC for film school? late April or May?</p>