Dream by Emma

Emmaof Valley's entry into Varsity Tutor's January 2018 scholarship contest

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Dream by Emma - January 2018 Scholarship Essay

All my life, I have been a dreamer. As a child, this manifested as dreams of my adventures in far off lands, transplanting myself into my favorite stories, and imagining my life as a famous, successful person. Acting, singing, writing – even then, my dreams centered around the arts.

As I got older, the dreaming didn't slow down, but the dreams began to take a clearer shape. I still dreamed of my adventures, still imagined what it would be like to be an orphan at Miss Hannigan’s, or Elizabeth Bennet's confidant, but my mind was more often consumed with how my dreams for the future could come to be. I began to actively develop my passions and discovered that I loved to write. I could create my own stories, not just read about them; I could bring life to characters who were built with parts of my life and my world, rather than merely relating my life to the lives of other author’s creations. I also discovered a love for the performing arts, which allowed me not only to associate with a character, but become that character, and share it with an audience.

I quickly found myself consumed in pursuing my passions. I wrote incessantly, auditioned for every school play, and never stopped voraciously reading trees-worth of books. As I continued building my own worlds, and living in the worlds of numerous playwrights, my love for them only grew until I became who I am today: someone who has a rough draft of a novel in beta editing, knows every word to several Broadway musicals, and chose to write, direct, and produce a play as my required culminating project at school.

However, all of my dreams center on learning. I’ve found, in eight years of pursuing my dreams, that my dreams are most fully realized in learning and expanding on my skills, talents, and ideas. As a result, the largest and most recent dream I have realized as my high school years draw to a close and the rest of my life stretches out before me is this: to continue learning in order to follow my passions wherever they lead. College is the next step for me in that learning journey. College offers formal education on what I love from people who love it as much as I do. It allows me the opportunity to pursue the connections and build the resources vital to a career in the fields I love: writing and theatre.

Ultimately, those dreams are why I want to attend college, and that one word that can summarize my journey thus far and that I hope to continue with a college education: dream.

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