Should I be offended or flattered?
My Life Drawing professor initially assumed I had traced my drawing of the human skeleton instead of free-handing it from our example image because it was "too perfect." You can't just throw that word around at a SCAD student. We freak right the fuck out
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SCAD, like any school, has its share of ups and downs. You're going to hear awesome reviews, you're going to hear shitty put-downs. It's all a matter of what each student experienced individually, so I can really only tell you my particular pros and cons. You can get a little background by checking out my SCAD and personal LJ tags.
First off, I really love the professors in my major, and from what I've heard from my friends in other majors, they are equally as impressive in other majors. Most of the teachers you're going to come across in your field really know their stuff. In fact, this quarter is the first time I've had a truly horrible prof., and she's an art history teacher, so sometimes you just have to take your lumps on your lecture classes (like math, science, history, public speaking, etc).
The students you meet are also wonderful people, although a little detrimental to your art ego. If you were like me, and came from a region where you were definitely the top dog, prepare to be knocked down several notches. Even so, it's a great learning experience to interact with your betters, and you find that even the students have things to teach you. You make more friends if you live in SCAD housing, but I have my own place and still meet awesome people everyday. It just becomes harder to make really close friends. People in SCAD living see each other all the time, and become a lot closer a lot faster.
Now, it's important to remember that SCAD the school has a lot of separate problems from SCAD the people. My first quarter here, SCAD was employing people at their bookstore, Ex Libris, that were stealing countless bank account numbers from students. The number of people that were stolen from at my bank alone was around 100 students. SCAD refused to take responsibility, and it was at least three months before the culprits were caught. At orientation, SCAD likes to stress how safe and secure they are, despite you sending your children off to a large, new city.
FALSE.
SCAD security is like a campus joke to us students. It goes without saying, if you ever have an emergency, immediately call 911 and skip SCAD's so-called help altogether. SCAD and Savannah are just as unsafe as a large metro-city, no matter how much of a tourism trap this place is. SCAD itself had an incident this year where a railing on the 5th floor of Turner broke and a girl fell 5 stories. The only thing that saved her life was some bushes and grass, but even though SCAD paid her medical bills, they refuse to pay her tuition. Their solution? They put caution signs on Turner railings and took a caulk gun around the buildings to "fix" everything.
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