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It snowed today. The first snow of the season in Jersey. Rumor has it that just a little snow can cause school to be canceled. Let's hope the snow keeps up tonight so I won't have to go to class tomorrow. Though that could be a potential disaster. It's the last Tuesday class before finals and there are projects to be discussed.
I was thinking about how much I've changed in the past year. It's been pretty dramatic. My mind works in a whole different way now and I consider things and react to things differently than I would have before. I guess that comes from having been exposed to so many new situations and people. Was I even alive before New York?
I'm taking next semester off to work on my portfolio and apply to more colleges. Yes, I'm leaving Ramapo, but for different reasons than I left Howard. I want to go to a school with a serious photography program and Ramapo doesn't have one. I'll need a presentable portfolio to get into a better program and I don't really have much to show for myself at this point so I'm going to do that living and working in New York thing so that I can really focus on taking pictures and putting together a portfolio that admissions people will give the time of day. Hopefully, I'll get accepted to a good school and I'll really like it there and maybe, one day, I'll do that graduating thing. I guess the 4 year plan really wasn't for me but I'm ok with that. All of my college hopping has just been a part of a process of figuring out what I want to do with myself, and sure it took me 3 years and a few thousand dollars to figure it out, but now I think I'm on the right track. It really is too bad about Ramapo though. I kinda liked it here.
So more changes, more uncertainty, more mistakes, and more learning from them. It's certainly more exciting than following a carefully laid out plan for my future. And, I must say, I wouldn't have it any other way.
I was thinking about how much I've changed in the past year. It's been pretty dramatic. My mind works in a whole different way now and I consider things and react to things differently than I would have before. I guess that comes from having been exposed to so many new situations and people. Was I even alive before New York?
I'm taking next semester off to work on my portfolio and apply to more colleges. Yes, I'm leaving Ramapo, but for different reasons than I left Howard. I want to go to a school with a serious photography program and Ramapo doesn't have one. I'll need a presentable portfolio to get into a better program and I don't really have much to show for myself at this point so I'm going to do that living and working in New York thing so that I can really focus on taking pictures and putting together a portfolio that admissions people will give the time of day. Hopefully, I'll get accepted to a good school and I'll really like it there and maybe, one day, I'll do that graduating thing. I guess the 4 year plan really wasn't for me but I'm ok with that. All of my college hopping has just been a part of a process of figuring out what I want to do with myself, and sure it took me 3 years and a few thousand dollars to figure it out, but now I think I'm on the right track. It really is too bad about Ramapo though. I kinda liked it here.
So more changes, more uncertainty, more mistakes, and more learning from them. It's certainly more exciting than following a carefully laid out plan for my future. And, I must say, I wouldn't have it any other way.