Future

College is a hard thing to understand.  We are paying for an education that we may or may not use in our future.  Who knows if you really will be a teacher?  What do you even do with an English major?  What do you do with a music minor? What are you really here for?

I have such a massive Disney obsession.  But it's heartfelt.  I don't joke about Disney Animation.

After just finishing watching the "How It Was Made" videos on Sleeping Beauty, I am once again floored on how much goes into these masterpieces.  I've currently watched the backstage information on Sleeping Beauty, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast, and each time I am just overcome with awe.  When I saw the Beauty and the Beast documentaries, I cried.  I was so amazed, and I wanted to do what these artists had done so badly... It sounds so silly, I know, but I cried.  Did you know that the "I Know You" portion of Sleeping Beauty cost over 10,000 dollars? It took them over a year to make it come alive, and now, to me, it's one of the most iconic Disney scenes.  Beauty and the Beast used to have an entire different storyline with no music.  Then they brought in real Broadway singers and the movie changed.  Did you know that The Lion King had to be put together in garages of the animators because there had been an earthquake, blocking many from the studio?  To hear the documentary speakers say that this kind of animation is dead makes me want to cry as well.  I don't want to see the animation that's out today! I want to see real artwork!! Stuff that really means something to all generations.

I want to work for Disney SO very badly.  I get on their website once in a while to see what positions are open.  Right now the ones I want aren't open, but hey, I got 2 and a half years of schooling yet! On the animation site they link summer internships and talent development seminars.  I want to go for the internship so very badly.  Too bad I'm terrified of living in California.  But working with Disney animators would make my entire life.  I've wanted to write a novel before, and I've wanted to be on Broadway.  I've wanted to be a straight up singer, and I've wanted to be a songwriter.  But I have never wanted anything as much or as long as I've wanted to be a part of a Disney creation.  I want to go to the 8 week internship at the Disney studios for a summer sometime soon.  I'll have to give up camp.  Some or all of a summer.  I have to work towards a real job sometime, right? If anyone would like to see the site where I'm getting this information, it's here:
http://www.disneyanimation.com/careers/student_programs.html

*Sigh* Well, first goal, save enough money to live in California for 8 weeks!