Lena Dunham: The Smart Kid In Class

I wouldn’t be applying for Questbridge if it weren’t for my strong desire to stay labeled as the “smart kid” in class. Maybe that’s what’s motivating me to go through what some people consider an insane process. Madness is the emergency exit, and in a way I’ve been looking for one for a very long time and at last opportunity has come knocking.
I eventually found out what exactly I wanted to do by looking back in hindsight. When I was younger, everyone liked telling me “he’s a smart kid” although that was an immense stroke to my ego I never really paid attention to it. It was just one of those things that were ‘there’ an unmovable and unyielding fact of my life. I never really realized my great potential back then. I had stopped all of my usual habits reading, writing creatively, and trying my math problems instead of looking at the answers in the back of the textbook. By tenth grade year id realized that I had dropped something along the way, I’d

Lena Dunham is one of those people who can do that. Although sometimes razor sharp and witty; she also has the amazing ability to really jerk the tears right out of you. After first being exposed to her work; I had realized that she was who I wanted to be; I knew that whatever path I choose that I must simply become someone or something like her. Her show GIRLS about a twenty-something girl living in New York was one of those stories that really changed my whole outlook on life. I know it sounds silly that a Television show can really change how you think and what you find comical, but art was made to make you think outside the box. Part of my job and her job as a writer is to not only cross lines, but to also redefine and reshaped them. She is one of my biggest inspirations as a writer, actor, and playwright. I know deep down that I have that great potential to change the minds of others like she