so much school-related relief. and also con excitation
I was starting to wonder recently if I was in the wrong major, because although I love designing stuff, I couldn't do it the way my design profs want me to. They're all about the abstract and expressing the concept and putting a Deep Hidden Meaning into every corner and curlicue and I CANNOT DO THAT. I design totally by instinct, I don't know what to say when they ask "so why did you use this angle here?" Because it looks cool, that's why. But I talked to my advisor and he explained to me that the way I design isn't wrong. I just need to be thinking of the concept stuff like a marketing spiel, making it up to "sell" the design to the prof/customer. Make the thing, then analyze it out to mean whatever it is supposed to mean. Thinking of it like that, I can do it. I won 't believe any of what I am saying, but as long as I can sell it it's okay. I need to "develop my BS skills," as he put it, lol.
On another note, just one week till Youmacon! I am staffing the game room this year, which should be interesting. I was asked to make a fourth with three of my friends who are also staffing, because their original fourth dropped out unexpectedly. I think I am going to be watching bags/signing people up for tournaments. 6 hours of that a day, and I get a free room and badge xD I shall be cosplaying as girl-America, my same cosplay from Jafax this year. I originally intended to alternate with Lithuania that I went as last year, but I won't have time to revamp that cosplay like it needs, so just girl-America I guess.
On another note, just one week till Youmacon! I am staffing the game room this year, which should be interesting. I was asked to make a fourth with three of my friends who are also staffing, because their original fourth dropped out unexpectedly. I think I am going to be watching bags/signing people up for tournaments. 6 hours of that a day, and I get a free room and badge xD I shall be cosplaying as girl-America, my same cosplay from Jafax this year. I originally intended to alternate with Lithuania that I went as last year, but I won't have time to revamp that cosplay like it needs, so just girl-America I guess.