Because knowing your own mind is extremely fucking cool.

[silverfae9]

Ok, so my new plan (yes, this is Toby's cue to roll his eyes and sigh 'not another samantha plan!') is to go to fashion school. Why not, yo? I love fashion, so a merch. degree would be right up my alley.

Or maybe I'll finish my B.A. in Art History and dump the A.A.

Or maybe I'll finish my B.A. in Physics.

Maybe all this going foreward with my education is the wrong idea. I'm still only 20 for another month, and after that I'll only be 21. Having my M.A. done by 24 seems to be vaguely unrealistic, anyways. Enough going foreward. Let's start moving sideways!

I'm suffocating without a prospect of school, and I need to broaden my options. I love school...I love taking new classes and meeting new people who are doing the same thing. And I still love degrees. This isn't to say that I don't still want those two M.A.s and that Ph.D. I just don't want them enough to move back to the East Coast to get them.

So I've requested info from the Art Institute on their fashion merch. program, and I guess my next step is to talk to UW about how to get in as a post bac student if I can't get in as a grad one.

I'm so stubborn.

This means it's time to get back to "Freebasing Text: The Rhetoric of Word Art." I have to make this paper do something new. I have to make it -sing-. Anyone got any spare copies of "The Rhetorical Tradition" or "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student?" I could also use anything by Bitzer and, oh, Jenny Holzer's home phone number. Everyone got that?

Also, the man with yellow fingertips and thumbs talks to me during the day now, while I'm awake. Is this a bad sign?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh* Not another samantha plan. *eye roll* Actually, mouse, I think this is a damn good plan. But leave the physics thing alone...it just isn't attractive. Go to fashion school! And have a date, already! And um, that's all my instructions for now.
Toby

[silverfae9]

Are you sure? Nothing else? You don't want me to, I don't know, do a little dance or something? Sheesh.

[el-wombato.livejournal.com]

My year at the Art Institute was mostly a waste. However, that was graphic design, not fashism (ha!), so your mileage may vary.

However, it did help me get into Cornish, so it wasn't a total waste.

[silverfae9]

Thanks, Oscar, you're so encouraging. Actually, from what I've seen so far, school -anywhere- is largely a waste of time...I just like the little pieces of paper with my name on them that come at the end.

[el-wombato.livejournal.com]

I wasn't trying to rain on your parade - after all, I'm planning to go back and get my bachelor's at this point in my life.

It's certainly not my place to tell you how to live your life - I just figured I should voice my "meh" opinion about the Art Institute itself. Caveat emptor, or somesuch.

[silverfae9]

Yeah, I haven't heard much good about the Art Institute from anyone so far...but I'm fine with that, because real art schools like Cornish scare me. I'm kinda hoping that a "meh" school will be more forgiving of my equally "meh" artistic talents.

[el-wombato.livejournal.com]

I've decided that the whole "artistic talent" thing is overrated. I've taken a bunch of drawing classes. Some were very useful and some not so much. In the end, I realized that I draw pretty well, regardless of talent - which I'm still convinced I lack.

But it's true - the Art Institute will pretty much just take you in - I had nothing like a portfolio review (or a portfolio to speak of) before going there.

But if it's just art classes you want, there's probably a cheaper option.

[silverfae9]

I'm not sure what I want, other than something to do with my time. That's actually a lie, because I want to go to grad school, but I need something to do between now and however many years it takes me to get -in- to grad school.