Two months later...

Yeeeah, so that went well. Hello! It's been about two months since I last blogged, and funnily enough things have actually changed since then. Last week I popped over to the registrar and declared my major as Graphic Design. I like my school, and so far the professors I've had in the department have been great. I can suck it up and deal with the Art History courses. Cool thing about that, in the time I've waited to declare, they changed the curriculum and now only 4 AH courses are required! One less to suffer through, haha.


I started a new job in September, I'm now a part-time teller at TD Bank. It's been going well, but with it and school and a bunch of homework I'm always busy. It's tiring and I have no time for things I want to do for me. I want to get back into web design, I want to read books that aren't for school, I want to watch TV shows and movies, I want to cook. I wanted to participate in NaNoWriMo again, but no way that was happening. I've realized that going to school and working just plain sucks (yeah, I'm a little late to notice). So one day I did some math... If I continue working at my current pay and hours through next summer and don't make any major purchases or anything, I should save enough to pay for tuition through Spring 2013, when I'm expecting to graduate. That would mean four semesters of school work-free, at a time when I'm digging into my major. The fact that this might be a possibility excites me. I think being able to focus on school like that, I'd finally really enjoy it.


I figure if I really want to, I could attempt to transfer to FIT later, right into one of their Bachelor's programs instead of wasting a year just for an AAS. But ultimately I think I'll just stick around Queens, especially if I can do so without work as an extra burden, and could take classes more than two days a week without it feeling like too much.


So a year from now I might be just a student. I'm gonna stay hopeful for that, and keep on truckin' along in the meantime!

About that blogging thing...

So my darling dear boyfriend, Todd, has started a blog. Again. Follow him! Maybe then he'll keep writing on it. ;) And of course he made me follow him, so I figured why not start one of my own too? I don't know how I feel about Blogger/Blogspot, but whatever, if I even bother to use it I can always e-move.

I've just finished my second day back to school. It's my third semester at Queens College. I still like the school and so far I've had some great professors, but I still hate its location and that I am without a major. I've spent these past three semesters banging out my general education requirements, or PLAS as QC calls it. The good news is that after this semester I will only have ONE MORE gen ed left! (And one W course, but whatever, that'll get in there somehow.) I'll also only have 3 courses left to finish my minor... Sooooo, I have to get going on that major thing.

I've got a lot of ideas floating around in my head. Ideally I'd really like to transfer to FIT for Fall '11 into the Communication Design 1-year AAS program. The only problem is that I really can't draw. With the application they ask for a portfolio...

Your portfolio should consist primarily of work done from direct observation, i.e. drawing and painting from what you see. These drawings might include self-portraits, still lifes, figure drawing, landscapes, or interiors. You should include work done in a variety of media like charcoal, pencil, watercolor, and acrylic and oil paints. We encourage you to include a sketchbook as part of your submission. 

You should already have strong drawing and two-dimensional design skills, as well as an understanding of color and composition. [...]. Your artwork should reflect your understanding of how to move the eye across a piece of paper or canvas using line and color, light and dark, balance and rhythm, all of which help form the concepts of design and composition. 

While we encourage work from direct observation, we do not discourage any work that reflects your creativity and sense of design. Computer art may supplement your portfolio, but it should not be its main focus.

Ummm. Yeah. So I'm going to try to work on that. I've been looking into drawing classes around here but I dunno.

I could also suck it up and major in Graphic Design at Queens. I didn't initially for two reasons: one, it requires FIVE Art History classes. Ugh. Two, it's not a school that's known for Graphic Design, and I don't want to end up jobless in a competitive industry. I don't think about reason two so much anymore because if I graduate with a killer portfolio, that's all that will matter really.

Another option would be to look into Queens's Interdisciplinary Studies major, or even further, the CUNY BA program (which I think is really awesome). In one of those I could build my own major, perhaps a "Web Design and Development" major, or a sort of "Design & Psychology" major (actually shown as an example on the CUNY BA site). I just don't want to end up too boxed in and have less career choices down the line.

So yeah. That's what I think about pretty much every day of my life. Because it feels like I have almost no direction, and it's frustrating. So I continue to try and figure it out. Maybe I'm finally making some progress.... I guess time will tell!