You can't spell tard without art.
omg, Simon posted.
I really shouldn't have taken the nap that I did and I should be working on 3 different things right now, but I'm not. I think I need to write this out to get a bit more clear for the evening (I do have a lot to get finished tonight).
There is now a 99.5% chance I'll be changing my major from graphic design to studio art.
I've got a lot of people to talk to yet, and there will be a lot of paper pushing to get things in order, but it's looking like this is the appropriate course of action for me at this time.
I'm not learning much with the graphic design program. Everyone that I've talked to inside the program is in agreement with me that the g.d. program is lacking in a lot of areas. I've spent a lot of time on the programs used for design work, and have a strong understanding of them and I know how to get what I need out of them for the work required of us. That being said, it isn't challenging me. The only thing I'm getting to expand upon is concept. That's nice in and of itself, but without the formal technical challenge along side it, it's seemingly a waste of my time. I finish the projects we have to work on weeks in advance of the due dates and receive very little critique on them and get full marks. Other students in the classes come up to me for help. I correct issues that the professors don't or make confusing.
I know it is all what you make of it, and that's what I've been doing. I challenge myself with the coursework, but the standard is so low that it's hard to maintain that 110% attitude when you can get away with 30% of what you're capable of. My friends in the graph des program, and I just mean my friends, appear to be in the same boat as me. They aren't challenged by the course demands. There isn't anything for them to overcome besides the bullshit attitudes of the professors inside the program. I've seen how shitty work can be and still get you the degree; they just want you to suffer a little bit at the end so you think it really meant something.
My professors really like me. A lot of you know this. Some of you have even experienced it in a class with me. It really only makes things worse for me in the graphics courses. I get passed up on strong critique. It benefits me within the art studio courses though, because they know I can take it.
The past few weeks I have spent a lot of time with some of my art studio professors. I've explained to them my feelings about the degree plan I'm in and what I'm thinking about going for in the future. They all seem to agree with me about not being challenged and they seem to notice my thirst for knowledge and technical challenge. They actually have things to teach me that I can become immersed in. They are actually of such a quality that I feel like a damn student around them. They recognize what I would be capable of with their help in formal training and guidance. They want me to work under them in the Art Studio program.
Based on the initial go through, it looks like it'll be another semester and a half added on to where I'm at right now. That's if I work my ass off until then. Fall 2010 would be the hopeful date. If that didn't work out then I would hope it could only get pushed back to Spring 2011 as a final semester.
Working with these professors, and hoping they stay the entire time I'm in the program, I could get into any grad school I choose. I'm very confident of that.
Continuing the graphic design program the way it is going now will leave me deficient and in a hard place in regards to getting in to a grad school (let alone one of my choice).
I've been staying busy to say the least, and I've got a lot of work to do.
- Simon
I really shouldn't have taken the nap that I did and I should be working on 3 different things right now, but I'm not. I think I need to write this out to get a bit more clear for the evening (I do have a lot to get finished tonight).
There is now a 99.5% chance I'll be changing my major from graphic design to studio art.
I've got a lot of people to talk to yet, and there will be a lot of paper pushing to get things in order, but it's looking like this is the appropriate course of action for me at this time.
I'm not learning much with the graphic design program. Everyone that I've talked to inside the program is in agreement with me that the g.d. program is lacking in a lot of areas. I've spent a lot of time on the programs used for design work, and have a strong understanding of them and I know how to get what I need out of them for the work required of us. That being said, it isn't challenging me. The only thing I'm getting to expand upon is concept. That's nice in and of itself, but without the formal technical challenge along side it, it's seemingly a waste of my time. I finish the projects we have to work on weeks in advance of the due dates and receive very little critique on them and get full marks. Other students in the classes come up to me for help. I correct issues that the professors don't or make confusing.
I know it is all what you make of it, and that's what I've been doing. I challenge myself with the coursework, but the standard is so low that it's hard to maintain that 110% attitude when you can get away with 30% of what you're capable of. My friends in the graph des program, and I just mean my friends, appear to be in the same boat as me. They aren't challenged by the course demands. There isn't anything for them to overcome besides the bullshit attitudes of the professors inside the program. I've seen how shitty work can be and still get you the degree; they just want you to suffer a little bit at the end so you think it really meant something.
My professors really like me. A lot of you know this. Some of you have even experienced it in a class with me. It really only makes things worse for me in the graphics courses. I get passed up on strong critique. It benefits me within the art studio courses though, because they know I can take it.
The past few weeks I have spent a lot of time with some of my art studio professors. I've explained to them my feelings about the degree plan I'm in and what I'm thinking about going for in the future. They all seem to agree with me about not being challenged and they seem to notice my thirst for knowledge and technical challenge. They actually have things to teach me that I can become immersed in. They are actually of such a quality that I feel like a damn student around them. They recognize what I would be capable of with their help in formal training and guidance. They want me to work under them in the Art Studio program.
Based on the initial go through, it looks like it'll be another semester and a half added on to where I'm at right now. That's if I work my ass off until then. Fall 2010 would be the hopeful date. If that didn't work out then I would hope it could only get pushed back to Spring 2011 as a final semester.
Working with these professors, and hoping they stay the entire time I'm in the program, I could get into any grad school I choose. I'm very confident of that.
Continuing the graphic design program the way it is going now will leave me deficient and in a hard place in regards to getting in to a grad school (let alone one of my choice).
I've been staying busy to say the least, and I've got a lot of work to do.
- Simon