Last week, I joined the Rose House and headed to Cornell Cinema to watch the movie, Dope. Dope is about a wild adventure of the high-school senior Malcolm and his friends Jib and Diggy bond, whom he bonds with over ’90s hip-hop culture, their studies and playing music in their own punk band. Their adventure was resulted from his chance encounter with a drug dealer named Dom lands Malcolm and company at the dealer’s nightclub birthday party; when the scene turns violent, they flee — with the Ecstasy that Dom secretly hid in Malcolm’s backpack. At the end, Malcolm’s adventure made him unique and led to his acceptance to Harvard.

I thought the movie was quite intriguing. Thinking back about my own college application process, I thought it was very hard to come up with a way to distinguish myself from a pool of very talented students. Watching this movie makes me wonder if life can be a little bit less stressful when we do not worry too much over every little thing we do. Like Malcolm, he went on this very exhilarating journey (although it definitely was not fun for him), and he is able to grown and develop his character through his journey. I hope when I applied to colleges, I could have gone through the same thing, instead of sitting in front of my computer, scratching my head and stressed over what I should write about in my personal statement.