My name is Halley Linscheid, I'm a Senior at UM getting a BFA in Media Arts with an emphasis in digital filmmaking. Before college, I took a gap year, and my traveling was cut 10 weeks short because of Covid. For that reason, I already felt somewhat trapped moving to Missoula and wanted to go somewhere huge compared to here for my Beyond the Classroom Experience. I originally wanted to study abroad but there weren't many film programs available in English, and since I have always wanted to live in New York, one of the best places to study filmmaking in the world, I thought it would be the perfect fit to spend my semester there. When I arrived in New York I had an image of it that is shared amongst many people who have never been to such a large and romanticized city. After a few days, I started to understand what it was really like to live there but ended up loving it all the same, just for different reasons. I was able to do a lot of things I wasn't able to do in Missoula like create relationships with a wide variety of people, eat a ton of different types of foods, go out to large shows, comedy events, and museums, be truly on my own, see a different perspective on filmmaking, and gain connections that could help me move back to New York if I choose to pursue filmmaking there.
My friends and I would spend our time exploring and wandering around the city and Brooklyn- we got to feel so small again. On days none of us had classes, we would make up a plan of a few random things we wanted to see in New York whether it be a pop-up, a restaurant, or a dog costume parade, and then fill in the rest of our time wandering around and finding what we find.
New York was perfect in many ways. Although it's nice to be back in Missoula, and it's much easier to live here than there, I miss New York very much and more every day! Surprisingly, one of the things I miss the most is sitting on the Subway for longs period of time, which you definitely can't find in Montana (-:
Me biking across the Williamsburg Bridge on my last night in New York.
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