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Field Work Personal Statement

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During the majority of our lives as children, we are consistently and relentlessly asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Most children have been conditioned to respond with the name of their desired profession, from a young age being encouraged to pursue said profession and seek to reach affluence in their field of study as soon as humanly possible. From this young age society pressures us to achieve prodigee status The answer to this banal inquiry was never a simple one on my part. I always struggled to decide, it seemed so daunting, even then, to be asked where you will choose your life to lead you, to explain what might define you. will Even from a young age I never took to this idea that a person must choose a set path in life, …show more content…

Over Field Work Term I worked at a school located on the Upper East side named The Dalton School, as the Assistant to the Technical Director. Having always considered myself to be an actor, this internship was a way for me to experiment and test the waters of being behind the scenes, rather than performing. Working in such a hands on environment, was something I found to be extremely rewarding, and lead me to realize that working as part of a technical crew is no longer a profession I view as occupying merely to support my passion for acting, but in conjunction with my love for being on the stage, a love for creating what’s on it. Through FWT I discovered that I possess an interest in building and constructing sets in addition to an wish to explore the more visual side of performing arts. In my coming years at Bennington, I wish to take more visual arts class in addition to exploratory works in both the Coincidentally my FWT supervisor, would consider himself to lead both the lives of an actor and crew member, and I found his commitment to his work to be both very inspiring and reflective of my own wishes for life, that I too wish to achieve a balance in both my academic/professional pursuits and personal interests and passions. In this, Field Work Term has even further aided in dispelling my pre existing notions that I “could only have one”, that I would be forced to pick just one interest and commit to that my whole life, less be shamed by society, or risk the precarity of uncertainty in

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