Okay, I feel bad that I haven’t really been a good contributing CC member on the College match/chance me threads – once in awhile if I happen to see something that I know something about, I’ll post. But mostly I just post here and lurk on the 2025 thread. What do you mean, eaten by wolves?
D26 finished her run in the spring play this Saturday (it was great!), and next she’s doing a figure drawing class using a live model for the next five Tuesday evenings. We learned from RIT admissions that if she wants to pursue any major through their college of art & design – even New Media Design, which is mostly UX/UI type stuff – then they want to see a portfolio with some traditional observational drawing. Oy, she doesn’t really have that. She makes fantastic collages and loves to crochet and made an entire prom dress out of duct tape that was amazing, plus she doodles anime characters and such digitally – but she needs to learn traditional drawing, I guess. So, $200 of required art supplies later, I hope she gets something out of this class. (We were told a portfolio doesn’t need to have finished pieces – even sketches will give them an idea of the student’s capability.)
She’s also supposed to be working on her pieces for the drum major audition, but that got pushed aside for the play. Audition is on April 15. Next weekend is prom. She has a tentative plan with two friends and two acquaintances to go as a group to the big class-wide pictures/dinner thing. Crossing my fingers that it all goes smoothly.
Otherwise, I guess AP studying is next. She only has two – Calc AB and Physics 1. But she has a giant final project in honors architecture due pretty soon.
(Thankfully, she’s done with the SAT. Praise be.)
Oh! One weird thing – her friend that was in the play with her took the ACT on Saturday morning. The show was at 2 p.m. and he got extended time, so he took his costume with him, knowing he’d be cutting it close. Well, after taking the test, he was selected to take it again right then, and despite his saying he had a conflict, they wouldn’t let him leave. (Unclear if they actually detained him, or they said something like his morning test would be canceled if he didn’t agree to stay and take another one. I bet there’s fine print.) The second test was part of some trial program, I imagine.
But what the heck? Poor kid missed his entire part in the play, and they had to scramble to cover for him.