“This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.” –Lauren Conrad
Years ago, after “Laguna Beach” turned into “The Hills”, Lauren Conrad said the above quote during, what I recall, as the first episode of “The Hills”. Major applause to whichever script writer wrote that or if Lauren said that herself, props to her.
Truthfully, I never imagined that my life would turn out like this. School is much harder than I imagined and I’ve met so many people who are in the industry that I want to break into. I’ve been fortunate enough to have professors support me in the past year, learn about Communication Studies research, get a scary but amazing mentor who resembled Miranda priestly, and transfer from a wonderful amazing university that I will forever love called UCSD to UCLA in a brand new city of Los Angeles. I transferred to a place that was relatively foreign–I could count the number of people I knew on my hands–and each day I am surprised by all the wonderful tidbits of UCLA and Los Angeles in general.
Six weeks since moving in, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet the right people, connected to a mentor through my scholarship, got a research assistant position in a graduate field that I’m interested in pursuing, and been blessed to do some things I never imagined possible (TV screenings, movie premieres, film, talking to actors, actresses, and publicists, football games). Back when I used to freak out over pages of US Weekly and People Magazine, I’ve soon come to the point of respecting actors not as public figures but more for their mastery of their art of acting or singing or both. Though I still cannot resist for a picture here and there, I love watching the background aspect of what a publicist does at events, what interns do at red carpets, photographers, the media relations and how that translates from reality to TV screens or magazine pages.
This photograph (my iPhone background) is exactly what I think of every day:
- (photo taken from : http://jessramblings.tumblr.com/post/584512339/dianna-agron-she-is-honestly-one-of-the-most)
