College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Graphic Worker

Being involved in art has showed me how to be more creative. This is both literally and metaphorically. Not only was I not involved in anything, but I didn’t want to be involved in anything. I had no motivation; I couldn’t find anything I enjoyed whole-heartedly. This all change with one action. Being interested in art has shown me that I can do anything I put my mind to. If I’m angry, I can paint my frustration out. If I’m sad, I can take my mind off of whatever is bothering me by drawing. Art is my getaway. I was never

That's part of the reason why I can't have a career doing anything else; I can't do a job that I'm not passionate about. Even though school has put a rather generous workload on my shoulders, I don't mind it. At the end of the day I love being challenged, and nothing is quite as challenging as trying to outdo yourself with each project you take on. Every piece I produce is like completing a puzzle, and I never know exactly what it will look like until I've finished it. For me, that is a large part of why I'm so committed to cartooning. I want to see how far my art takes me, and what I'll create as a improve as an artist. I wasn't sure I was cut out for this field when I first applied to college, but now I know I'm more than qualified to be a cartoonist. Thanks to SVA I've learned a lot about myself, and because of all the work my professors have had me do I know where my strengths lie. As a student, I've learned the significance of meeting deadlines, getting experimental, and stepping out of my comfort zone. One of the best things about being an artist is that you never stop learning, and much of my creative fervor stems from me trying to find new solutions I can apply to my

Throughout my life, I’ve wanted to be many things. An astronaut, a princess, a doctor, a lawyer, and at one point in my life the president. Now that I am older and much more mature. I still haven’t decided what I wanted to be. When I first started my high school career, I was terrified. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. So I decided to try new things. I’ve been with choir ever since I was in the sixth grade, so I thought I would give it shot, and try something new. I started to take drama and art. I soon found out, that I wasn’t great at either of those things. I had stage fright and I sucked at drawing. But, I didn’t give up. I stayed with choir, drama, art, and basketball. Now that I am a senior and ready to graduate, I have found out I

Growing up I was always fascinated by history. I like to imagine my love of history was passed on to me by my grandmother who was both a history major and a history teacher; however, I was never able to genuinely connect with her since she had already passed years before I was born. No matter the case, I reciprocated her passion. I decided that I wanted to pursue a career that involved a more hands on approach appertaining to history aside from teaching. Therefore, I concluded I wanted to ultimately work in a museum. An opportunity to shadow a museum director, a position I hope to be in one day, truly exposed me to that specific environment and sealed my determination like never before in regards to my future.

I was just sitting there, in a dark room, not knowing what to do. Consequently, I frequently felt like a failure. Made me petrified, frightened, terrified that I was not approaching to be able to escape, and that I’d just be a homeless man. Because I believed that I could never find happiness, nor ever have found passion in anything. This consequently made me begin to envision that I was going to become a failure. I have always had the belief that art and graphic design were the attributes that I was passionate about, only to turn out that it was not as effortless as I once thought. Me being an ignorant person, I did not take into consideration that it is an extremely competitive field to be in. I just didn’t have the knowledge about what to do at this point. However, little did I realize, the fad that I had the utmost passion for were right in my ears: music.

Starting off with my academic choices I decided to fool around in high school. But when I graduated on time I got scared that I would mess up again and not do anything in life so I chose the first career that I thought I would be good at. This career was Cosmetology. I soon realized that I did not agree with their teaching methods and I couldn’t see myself in that career in the future. In deciding this I was now without schooling and stuck in the blank space of not learning anything, the blank space I was so scared of and tried so hard to avoid. As a child I had the dream of becoming a lawyer, I would defend people and fight for justice. Yet as I got older I realized that if I were to become a lawyer I would get very attached to the issues

My goal as a graphic design is to create works that will cause someone to question everything. I recently have gotten into design, and fell hopelessly in love. Until two years ago, I did not know what a graphic designer was or that I could be one. I was lost, unsure about my future or who I wanted to be, I just knew that I was creative and very kinetically driven. I just wanted to move. A friend of mine introduced me to the book “Watching Words Move”, and suddenly I knew who I was and what I needed. The visualization of words doing what I always wanted them to do, move. I became obsessed. I wanted to create a mesmerizing typographical mirage of movement. I searched for what I needed and Graphic Designer answered. When I applied to SCAD, I

Although I graduated with honors, I can honestly say I have some serious academic needs. I am going into college with no real career goals and barely any college preparedness. I am majoring in Art, and that’s something that I have been good with my whole life, so it’s understandable why I would choose this major. I am not sure, however, what I want to do with my artistic skills after college. That is a huge problem because I am devoting my life right now to art, but when the time is up I will not know what I’m doing.

As a kid, day and night I would draw. I would draw everything, from dinosaurs to cartoon characters like Johnny Bravo. The pencil was my favorite toy, and I couldn’t be kept from it. Even though I would draw the average kid stuff, my favorite things to draw were cities. I would fill papers with different types of structures; skyscrapers, bridges, and houses. It always amazed me to see what I could come up with. There were never limitations and I could build anything I thought of. As I grew up, I lost my love for drawing but never for designing. I love building web pages, using different types of codes. I realized what I loved what going outside the box and never being limited. But the decision to be a civil engineering is recent. When I started college, I thought I wanted to be a businessman. Accounting was the class that changed my mind, I realized it was boring and I didn’t want to stay in an office 24/7. I decided engineering might be the career for me, since I would still be messing with numbers but also be able to use my imagination. My mother was the final push to me changing, she didn’t like my business major and when I told her I was thinking about changing, her face lit up and she said she wanted that all along. I lost 6 credit hours, I was really sad about that but I know it’s going to pay off in the future to change my careers. I don’t think I’m going to change majors again.

When I was little, I was the kid who wanted to be everything when I grew up. One week was an astronaut, another week I wanted to be a doctor, two months later I wanted to be a race car driver. Oddly enough, I never considered being a teacher as a career choice, ever. During my high school years, we would have career fairs to help us decide our futures; I always managed to skip those days. By the end of high school I had foreclosed on the idea that I was going to be in graphic design, since according to my magnet school and my parents, that seemed to be the only thing I could do. There was no point in looking at other careers, there was nothing else that I could do. An associates in multimedia two years later helped me realize that it

When I started college I did not go take a career towards education. I decided to study a whole different career, one that did not require a lot of work and in a sense, “an easy way out of college” career. However, making those decision came with a price. Soon after graduating with my Bachelor of Arts, I realized how wrong I was to follow a path that was not my calling. I started working in jobs that, not only were not in my field, they were jobs

What is a graphic Designer? What do they do? What makes them important? A graphic designer designs items such as; logos, billboards, pamphlets, and other promotional print and digital art work. Graphic Designers can work in just about any field or place of business due to the high demand for promotional items. A graphic designer can work for a company, freelance or both. The job requires talking with clients, computer software, and getting quality products in a timely fashion. The United States Department of labor describes a graphic designer as, “Graphic designers create visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They help to make an organization recognizable by

As I learned about computers and as I honed my skills in art I thought about being a digital artist. However, what I wanted to do is become a video game designer. A lot of people that I knew said I was made for such a career. However, my charter school didn’t have anything dealing with digital arts. After graduation I went on my mission, loved most every minute of it, but a great experience none the less. After the mission I continued to go to school but at that point my family felt that my desire to be a game designer was not well

Since a young age, my parents have taught me to value my education. I grew up with constant reminders from my father that school came before anything, and everything in my life. My father also told me that I needed a job that paid well, I needed to be a doctor or lawyer to be successful. This created a war in my mind while growing up. I believed so much that my education was important but I hated school. In fact, I hardly showed up for high school. I found solace in the performing arts; dancing, singing, and acting were my way of escaping the confusion of the real word. It wasn’t until my senior year that I realized my passions far outweighed any amount of money I could ever make. I came to terms with the idea that although this isn’t what my parent’s had hoped for, it’s what I desire to do, and that’s okay. This was my first of many revelations I made on my journey educational journey.

Ever since then I have decided to only pursue what I personally am interested in resulted in turning me into the person I had always wanted to be. I grew a love for comic books and illustration, I go to