Resume building, University of Texas, please help me be an adult!?

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Ever since I was in about fifth grade I've wanted to go to the University of Texas and be an RTF media production major.  In high school I was a horrible student, my GPA was about a 3.5, I did maybe six AP classes, and I was really only actively involved 2 organizations; band and dance team.   I've always had a passion for media and editing videos film things like that. I would have loved to have been involved in things like that during high school, but I went to a very small high school and we just didn't have those things. During my senior year we got a television class and I joined and that is how I learned Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and After Effects.  I've done a few local commercials exclusively for my high school, but I realize that after high school it's going to look a little bad to keep that on my college resume. I'm going to community college for my first year and I hope to transfer into the University of Texas, during my time in community college I will be taking film and production classes.  But applications for the next fall semester are due in December, so I really need to start looking for experience to put on my resume like now. The problem is that I don't know where to start, I have a job at a restaurant  and I'm totally willing to leave if I get a job in a media related field. I know the University of Texas looks for people with experience in their major and I don't have as much as I would like. What kind of things look good on a film school resume

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If you really want to become an adult stop saying things like this:
"...In high school I was a horrible student, my GPA was about a 3.5, I did maybe six AP classes, and I was really only actively involved 2 organizations; band and dance team...."

ANYONE with  cumulative GPA of 3.5 in high school IS NOT a horrible student.   There is NO SUcH THEN AS PERFECT HUMAN BEING. Nor is there perfect student.  I took NO AP classes in high school The Only extracurricular I had  was choir and one contribution to school magazine, not the school newspaper.. My closest friend, who is an M.D. and was a brain surgeon may have had only band as her extracurricular. in high school. The ONE thing I had in high school  even though i did not have much self esttem that  todays high schoolers do NOT seem to have is  core of self respect. I understood the difference between right and wrong  and make believe in and reality when i was  3 years  at the nd of hypodermic needle every morning , usually in my mother's hand, but   I've been a type 1 diabetic since I was  26 months old.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199911/self-esteem-vs-self-respect

The only way to become an adult is to take responsibility , EMOTIONAL responsibility for the consequences of  your decisions.  MAKE your won decisions, Of COURSE you will make mistakes  and have failures. IF you fall aprt    every time  you make mistake  and have temper tantrum    or  hate yourself and tell yourself you are stupid or failure   and act like three year old and insist   it is someone else's fault. you NEVER will become an emotionally mature adult. LEARN from your mistakes. When fail , learn form your mistakes, pick yourself up and TRY AGAIN. DO NOT  let other people, ESPECIALLY your parents, make your decisions for you. You HAVE a job, You make your own money, So you are waiting tables. SO WHAT? I had NO job at all when I started college.

You do NOT need a resume to apply for admission to college. or to transfer from community college to a college of a university.experience Colleges and universities are looking for genuine human beings who do NOT misrepresent themselves or who try to present themselves as perfect human beings or students.

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Resume building, University of Texas, please help me be an adult!?

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