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Amelia Morris
Los Angeles, California USA
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Advice to Amelia at age 17
1. Amazingly, you've chosen a great college for your future self, but why not defer a year and do some traveling on your parent's dime. Sign up for one of those teaching English classes and live in Argentina. You'll thank me later, for realz.
2. I'd surmise that by going abroad and learning to live life on your own for one year will take care of the following problems, but just in case, listen to the following:
a. Don't blow it by joining a sorority and trying to be cool with the pretty people. Be friends with Mary Anne and company, but don't get sucked into that crowd. It'll hurt your street cred when you decide you actually want to be friends with the interesting people as well.
b. You are adorable. Don't waste any more of your time counting calories.
c. Please don't buy any tube tops.
3. Amy is such a crap nickname. Get rid of it by calling yourself Amelia immediately.
4. Major in both Writing Seminars and Psychology. After school, if you want to be a writer, you just have to write, but to pay the bills, something more marketable like psychology will later come in handy BIG TIME.
5. Try out for the improv team even if your face turns red 100 times in the process.
6. If you're still too self-conscious, take an acting class for god's sake. You have to get over this!
7. Make friends with your teachers. Use as much of their time as possible, especially Stephen Dixon.
8. You only have three to four summer vacations left. Apply for every internship in the comedy writing field that you can. Live in New York one summer even if you don't get that internship.
9. And most importantly, begin the slow process of realizing that life owes you no favors.
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