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Well, I know it has been awhile. As per usual with my blog entries. I'm just really tired and fustrated. I need a place to vent right now, so here goes.
School is kicking my ass. I am somehow managing to keep my head above water somehow. In Web Design I have no idea what my grade is thus far. My teacher is Chinese and I cannot understand a damn word she says. She also goes really fast and the whole class gets lost. The other week she got mad at us for not understanding/following along and pretty much told all of us to drop the class. Pretty awesome, huh? I have to redesign a website. I have all of my "mock-ups" made but as far as coding them in Dreamweaver I have no fucking clue. She is a nice lady but sucks as a professor.
As far as Editorial Design, my first project was a "mash-up" where I had to combine the style of two different magazines in one that my professor chose for me. It was hard - because I had a Money magazine and an Architecture magazine. He gave us the assignment without any tutorials on Indesign or anything. I worked for 7 hours plus on it and got a B+. Bleah. The professor is quirky and will not help you unless you ask him. He will literally let you sit there with bad design and not say anything. SO FUSTRATING.
Corporate Design and Branding is the only class I am doing well in thus far. We have to create a logo for a health food corporation, as well as a product logo, business suite and a graphics standard guide. We also have to work in groups which is okay, I guess. Our group has to have one comment element among our products which is gonna be kinda difficult but I guess we can figure it out somehow. I got a pretty good group to work with so I'm happy about that at least. I have had this professor before and he is an idiot. He has a lot of experience but never gives good feedback unless he is in a hurry to end class. When he does give good feedback it's great but most of the time you have no idea what he thinks of your stuff - even if you ask him point blank he will try and squirm out of it.
SO I am going to apply for the BFA this semester and I have to show a portfolio with 14-15 mostly graphic design work from school. I could have gone home this weekend but I need to get my shit together for BFA as well as a ton of homework. I'm just irritated I have so much stuff to do, I want to go home, I'm tired of Northern Virginia, I need a break. FROM EVERYTHING. From my graphic design school "buddies", from bullshit professor, rich asshole classmates and all this godforsaken traffic. I feel like everyone is sucking the life out of me and I'm sick of it. Everyday is a battle where I have to stand up for myself and usually I don't and then feel like crap afterwards.
Anyway, just had to get that out, thanks for reading.
School is kicking my ass. I am somehow managing to keep my head above water somehow. In Web Design I have no idea what my grade is thus far. My teacher is Chinese and I cannot understand a damn word she says. She also goes really fast and the whole class gets lost. The other week she got mad at us for not understanding/following along and pretty much told all of us to drop the class. Pretty awesome, huh? I have to redesign a website. I have all of my "mock-ups" made but as far as coding them in Dreamweaver I have no fucking clue. She is a nice lady but sucks as a professor.
As far as Editorial Design, my first project was a "mash-up" where I had to combine the style of two different magazines in one that my professor chose for me. It was hard - because I had a Money magazine and an Architecture magazine. He gave us the assignment without any tutorials on Indesign or anything. I worked for 7 hours plus on it and got a B+. Bleah. The professor is quirky and will not help you unless you ask him. He will literally let you sit there with bad design and not say anything. SO FUSTRATING.
Corporate Design and Branding is the only class I am doing well in thus far. We have to create a logo for a health food corporation, as well as a product logo, business suite and a graphics standard guide. We also have to work in groups which is okay, I guess. Our group has to have one comment element among our products which is gonna be kinda difficult but I guess we can figure it out somehow. I got a pretty good group to work with so I'm happy about that at least. I have had this professor before and he is an idiot. He has a lot of experience but never gives good feedback unless he is in a hurry to end class. When he does give good feedback it's great but most of the time you have no idea what he thinks of your stuff - even if you ask him point blank he will try and squirm out of it.
SO I am going to apply for the BFA this semester and I have to show a portfolio with 14-15 mostly graphic design work from school. I could have gone home this weekend but I need to get my shit together for BFA as well as a ton of homework. I'm just irritated I have so much stuff to do, I want to go home, I'm tired of Northern Virginia, I need a break. FROM EVERYTHING. From my graphic design school "buddies", from bullshit professor, rich asshole classmates and all this godforsaken traffic. I feel like everyone is sucking the life out of me and I'm sick of it. Everyday is a battle where I have to stand up for myself and usually I don't and then feel like crap afterwards.
Anyway, just had to get that out, thanks for reading.