When I started high school I made a list of what I want to study in the future. On the top of my list I had medicine, but I didn't had enough grades for it when I finished high school. As the way universities work in my country it's based on your grades at the last high school year official exam.
So, the second thing that I really wanted to do was architect, but the same problem not enough grades for it. That made my third choice on the list just a dream in my head. Film making, I always wanted to be the person behind the camera, the person who actually make these artistic pieces. Being a director is what I dreamed about for a long time.
It is really hard to convince your family with something they don't think it could make a career because it is based on luck. Besides the difficulties that there was only one university that teaches it which was in another city and I can't go there for it.
Therefore, I went to university and started studying business and kept my hobby in photography.
I kept taking photos of anything that I found interesting.
I had to leave my country because it's no longer safe. I transferred to another country and continued studying business with a specification in banking and finance.
Unlike the U.S. colleges system where switching majors and studying many majors at the same time is an easy thing to do, we have a different system high school official exam is what determines the student's future and switching majors is nearly an impossible thing to do.
At that university they had media majors, but I had to study business otherwise I'll lose all my previous credits and just start over.
When I transferred later to Hunter and found out that I'll still need credits besides all the requirements for my economics major, I decided to take them all in media production field.
Furthermore, I found out about MNN Firehouse the youth media center where I'm taking courses and I'm really enjoying everything there. I'm learning a lot and I'm getting closer to what I really want to do Produce and Direct.
So, the second thing that I really wanted to do was architect, but the same problem not enough grades for it. That made my third choice on the list just a dream in my head. Film making, I always wanted to be the person behind the camera, the person who actually make these artistic pieces. Being a director is what I dreamed about for a long time.
It is really hard to convince your family with something they don't think it could make a career because it is based on luck. Besides the difficulties that there was only one university that teaches it which was in another city and I can't go there for it.
Therefore, I went to university and started studying business and kept my hobby in photography.
I kept taking photos of anything that I found interesting.
I had to leave my country because it's no longer safe. I transferred to another country and continued studying business with a specification in banking and finance.
Unlike the U.S. colleges system where switching majors and studying many majors at the same time is an easy thing to do, we have a different system high school official exam is what determines the student's future and switching majors is nearly an impossible thing to do.
At that university they had media majors, but I had to study business otherwise I'll lose all my previous credits and just start over.
When I transferred later to Hunter and found out that I'll still need credits besides all the requirements for my economics major, I decided to take them all in media production field.
Furthermore, I found out about MNN Firehouse the youth media center where I'm taking courses and I'm really enjoying everything there. I'm learning a lot and I'm getting closer to what I really want to do Produce and Direct.
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