art school vs a "normal" college experience
So since I got home from school all I have been doing is sleeping, zoning out, and well yea those 2 things. I have been thinking a lot too, like what I have become of myself. Like what if I didn't go to art school. My whole lifestyle, and world perseptions would be different. I think it would be totally different. By going to a regular normal college, I would actually have to care about my appearance, I would go out everynight and party, I wouldn't care so much about my grades, only my social life. That is what I always think of college to be. It seems like I live a whole different life. My college, I don't sleep, but compared to the reason why, I would be doing work all night. I would be locked int he studios until 5am sometimes working real hard trying to meet deadlines. The "nights out" that I have is to Wawa for more coffee, or doing laundry on a friday night as a temporary break from work, or going food shopping on those saturday nights. I mean, my girls and I do get to sit back and have a drink every now and again but it is no where near what regular college kids do. I mean like we don't go to parties, wait, thats because there are only like 4 or 5 the whole semester and they are all the same lame ass people doing their lame ass things. I mean going to art school, you do meet some really interesting people. You have your hippies, your pot heads, your pot dealers, your asians, and then the wierdos. Going there, I thought I was the msot normal one there, but since i am not one of "their" kind, I am classified as a wierdo. I have gotten used to it though. I mean this year has been a lot better than last, just because I have my own apartment with really awesome girls. There is the "main campus" factor, and parties down there at the frats like all the time and whatnot, but its not the same. I would have to take a 30 minute bus ride jsut to get there, and I only know like a handful of people that live there, so its really awkward.
But don't get the wrong idea there are tons of perks of going to art school. For example, you don't need to care about anything. Well anything but your work. So when you leave your house everyday, there is no need to look presentable, because everyone else looks jsut as gross. For example, I wore the same pair of pants for 4 weeks straight that were covered in oil pant and holes, just because I figured there was no need to get all my other clothes infested with oil pant as well. You also don't need to put on make-up or do your hair. I think i brushed my hair a total of 5 times and put on makeup 2 times all semester (one of them being holloween). You don't ever have to look in mirrors or carry around a make-up compact, that would just be strange. Another good perk about art school is you learn a whole new work ethic. Your learn to figure out what is really important to you and figure out how to make it the best it can be in a short amount of time, even if that means you don't sleep for a week straight; and then at the critiques, you hear your proffessor say it is the worst piece of art they have ever seen. So I guess art school also builds up your esteem. I mean like I had a professor this semester that told me my art was shit, I didn't cry, I didn't care what she thought, I was doing my art for myself, not for her. You learn to deal with critics.
I don't know what I am getting at. I guess that sometimes I wish I went to a "normal" college to get that "normal" college experience. But at the same time I think I am learning a lot more life lessons and survival techniques by going to art school. So what would I rather have? I don't know....
But don't get the wrong idea there are tons of perks of going to art school. For example, you don't need to care about anything. Well anything but your work. So when you leave your house everyday, there is no need to look presentable, because everyone else looks jsut as gross. For example, I wore the same pair of pants for 4 weeks straight that were covered in oil pant and holes, just because I figured there was no need to get all my other clothes infested with oil pant as well. You also don't need to put on make-up or do your hair. I think i brushed my hair a total of 5 times and put on makeup 2 times all semester (one of them being holloween). You don't ever have to look in mirrors or carry around a make-up compact, that would just be strange. Another good perk about art school is you learn a whole new work ethic. Your learn to figure out what is really important to you and figure out how to make it the best it can be in a short amount of time, even if that means you don't sleep for a week straight; and then at the critiques, you hear your proffessor say it is the worst piece of art they have ever seen. So I guess art school also builds up your esteem. I mean like I had a professor this semester that told me my art was shit, I didn't cry, I didn't care what she thought, I was doing my art for myself, not for her. You learn to deal with critics.
I don't know what I am getting at. I guess that sometimes I wish I went to a "normal" college to get that "normal" college experience. But at the same time I think I am learning a lot more life lessons and survival techniques by going to art school. So what would I rather have? I don't know....