MICA, freshman year

patois
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:56:59 +0000

Second semester has already been so much harder that first semester.

i think because we now have high personal expectations as well as knowing how much effort is required, making it all the more daunting. Projects are starting to take longer, from 1 week to 2 weeks.

My drawing class has entirely moved into concept based work - which is awesome for me and my classmates, since we’re nearly all photography and video majors. So as long as our work includes line and mark making, it’s considered “drawing”. So a lot of what’s been done has been sewing, impression, video, performance, etcetera. It’s probably my favorite class, next to Photo.

Painting is hard. MICA takes their painting department REALLY seriously, in the most non-serious way possible.

we declared majors yesterday. It was emotional for some people, while others were kind of “whatever” about it. I declared Photo.

Art Matters is also another demanding class.

Actually, the only class that ISN’T exceptionally demanding this semester is my general 2-d course with my advisor, that’s kind of like a half studio. (4 hrs long) Mostly because she doesn’t want to kill us.

Work study situation is intense, I now have 8 hours in the office and 5 hours in the PhotoCrib.

Parents weekend was this past weekend! So that afforded us a little bit of a break.

Now, if i could just stop having car trouble… i’d be golden.

Congrats to all the new admits! Maybe I’ll see you next year :)