Sunday, April 27, 2008

eeee. got my fall schedule! i'm so freakin' excited. i went to SAIC's artbash today, and i got to see two of my teachers. they seem pretty cool. artbash is a art showing/gallery of selected works of freshman in the first year program. a lot of the stuff was really amazing, and i don't know how i will ever do anything on the same level as what i saw today....art school is gonna kick my butt you guys.

but the whole discussion with the professors reassured me. i'm not as scared about the first year program as i was before. but one of my teachers made me feel better when he said, "just embrace your inner dork."

and i have to agree, dude.

anyway, here's my schedule for anyone who cares:

Mon - Research Studio I (Hall) 9AM - 4PM
Tues - World Clt/Civ Prehistory - 19th (Merkle) 1PM - 4PM
Wed - FYS: Literature of Witness (Durgin) 9AM - 12PM; SAIC Wired: Cult/Comm on WWW (TBA) 1PM - 12:30PM
Thurs - Core Studio Practice (Isenstein, Papish, Lacy) 9AM - 4PM
Fri - Int Photographic Image Making (Bilal) 9AM - 4PM

Saturday, April 26, 2008

wow. i haven't written in here in over a year. it's been a while, blogger. i think i need to reestablish our relationship.

it's senior year, and i am ready to go. i've sent in my deposit to SAIC and i'm super excited. i'm going to schedule my fall classes tomorrow. hope i don't get too intimidated by the artsy fartsy kids. either way, i'm super excited.

since SAIC will suck my parents' pockets dry, i am trying to save them at least a couple thousand dollars by trying to CLEP out of some classes (american lit, intro to psych and english composition [if i do horrible on the AP exam]), so i'm trying to find some study material on amazon and college board's website.

feel so weird being on the verge of becoming a college student. felt like i was in 8th grade just yesterday.

SAIC is super conceptual, and i am afraid that i won't be able to explain why i do what i do. i mean, i take photos because i see something that i think is beautiful/cool/interesting, but i can't give that reason everytime there's a critique. at the same time, i also can't come up with some pretentious reason like, "the color and lines depict the sorrow and pain of the children, blah blah blah" i can't be deep like that. sometimes i think i should've went to columbia where they're more commercial based and don't care why you do what you do. as long as it looks good, you get a thumbs up.

i really hope i'm wrong. sigh.