Julie and Julia

Q: How are the concepts you are currently learning about in class/school reflected in the movie Julie & Julia?

A: Julie and Julia is all about achieving goals and not giving up. In school they always say to try your best and never give up, like Julie and Julia. In school we are constantly learning new things and techniques as it is simliar to cooking. In Cooking class we have to follow a standardized recipe, like Julie has to follow. In the photo class I am currently in, we are about to make a how to video and it is similar to Julia Childs' cooking videos. In my math class, it's all about finding what makes sense or goes together. If the equation doesn't work for the problem, then I must try a different equation to see what works. It's just like cooking and figuring out what meshes well together.
 

-Accept that doing anything well requires hard work.

Julia wasn’t satisfied to take culinary classes or write recipes off-the-cuff — her kitchen was her laboratory. While in culinary school, she’d come home from class and spend hours working out the hows and whys of what she’d learned that day. When writing recipes, she’d test every ingredient and measurement, experimenting with mayonnaise until she was certain no one could possibly have written more on the subject than she had. “I had never taken anything so seriously in  my life — husband and cat excepted — and I could hardly bear to be away from the kitchen,” she wrote.

I can use this in my own life when applying to any of my hobbies. I love to film, and I may get frustrated about a certain shot, but I know once I get it right, it will be completely worth it. I just need to try new things and if they don't work, that's okay, and I can just try something different. When I am done shooting, then I have to edit, which takes time and lots of hard work, so I must stay committed, because I know that my hard work would pay off.