And so it begins...
Alright. So I suppose I have the break to talk about. But you know. It was fabulous. That about sums it up. I'll write more about it later?
There are lots of details I could get into, and hopefully I will soon. I'm out of the regular blogging pattern, so I hope I'll pick it back up and that I'll find the time to do so. But for now, I will leave you will a summary.
School is okie dokie. Last semester was so great because it was easy and not stressful. This semester is looking like it's going to be a bit harder, and more new stuff to learn. Because I mean, last semester my three photo classes were black and white, color, and digital which were all pretty basic courses and I already know a bunch about photography so they were pretty straight forward, and I only had two lecture classes and I had 3-D and silk screening, both which really didn't have two much work. But this semester I have three lectures, two are the same but one is this really hard political philosophy class that I'm really excited about but I know is going to be really challenging, and then I have three photo classes again, but they're different, I have color again, but it's with a new teacher who is known for being really hard and giving a lot of work, and then I have studio which will be great because I know nothing about it, but also hard because it'll be all new. And I have advanced black and white printing which is darkroom techniques which should be a blast, but a class is a class, they all have work. And of course I still have 3-D. I don't know how we manage 18 credits at this school, I just don't know. 7 classes is intense! And on top of that it's art which is so much more time consuming! But it's okay because some classes turned out a bit harder than I expected, and some turned out a little easier, so it balanced... hopefully.
BUT the good news is that I really have some solid friends now, and that always makes the world better. Tudor, Taryn, Nikki, Susanna, Christian, Kitty, Ma'ayan and Michele, and then there's Spencer and a few other people who I talk to and it's cool. And people in classes who make the class fun even though I don't see them outside of class. I'll get through it. This semester I'll be working on not stressing out over things I know I shouldn't be stressing out over, and learning that life doesn't depend on me getting an A. Somehow I know it shouldn't matter, but as soon as I'm being graded on something I freak out. And I'll also be working on not being so scared of new things, because that's a lot of the stress too. New things combined with the need to do them perfectly equals stress because it's almost impossible! Impossible standards I set, I do... so I'm trying to calm down and recognize that my best shot is fine, and I know that if I don't take it so seriously, I'll actually be able to take more away from it in the end because my mind will be able to work more calmly and freely.
So that's how school's going in a nut shell. I miss you and everyone else and I wish we were all in the same place to get through this crazy shit together! I also wish I had more time to do other things, like work on SDS stuff and actually make some shit happen. I do my best, you all know I do.
There are lots of details I could get into, and hopefully I will soon. I'm out of the regular blogging pattern, so I hope I'll pick it back up and that I'll find the time to do so. But for now, I will leave you will a summary.
School is okie dokie. Last semester was so great because it was easy and not stressful. This semester is looking like it's going to be a bit harder, and more new stuff to learn. Because I mean, last semester my three photo classes were black and white, color, and digital which were all pretty basic courses and I already know a bunch about photography so they were pretty straight forward, and I only had two lecture classes and I had 3-D and silk screening, both which really didn't have two much work. But this semester I have three lectures, two are the same but one is this really hard political philosophy class that I'm really excited about but I know is going to be really challenging, and then I have three photo classes again, but they're different, I have color again, but it's with a new teacher who is known for being really hard and giving a lot of work, and then I have studio which will be great because I know nothing about it, but also hard because it'll be all new. And I have advanced black and white printing which is darkroom techniques which should be a blast, but a class is a class, they all have work. And of course I still have 3-D. I don't know how we manage 18 credits at this school, I just don't know. 7 classes is intense! And on top of that it's art which is so much more time consuming! But it's okay because some classes turned out a bit harder than I expected, and some turned out a little easier, so it balanced... hopefully.
BUT the good news is that I really have some solid friends now, and that always makes the world better. Tudor, Taryn, Nikki, Susanna, Christian, Kitty, Ma'ayan and Michele, and then there's Spencer and a few other people who I talk to and it's cool. And people in classes who make the class fun even though I don't see them outside of class. I'll get through it. This semester I'll be working on not stressing out over things I know I shouldn't be stressing out over, and learning that life doesn't depend on me getting an A. Somehow I know it shouldn't matter, but as soon as I'm being graded on something I freak out. And I'll also be working on not being so scared of new things, because that's a lot of the stress too. New things combined with the need to do them perfectly equals stress because it's almost impossible! Impossible standards I set, I do... so I'm trying to calm down and recognize that my best shot is fine, and I know that if I don't take it so seriously, I'll actually be able to take more away from it in the end because my mind will be able to work more calmly and freely.
So that's how school's going in a nut shell. I miss you and everyone else and I wish we were all in the same place to get through this crazy shit together! I also wish I had more time to do other things, like work on SDS stuff and actually make some shit happen. I do my best, you all know I do.
posted by Bonnie at 4:41 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Bonnie
They seem to have changed the format fro writing comments
Hope this gets through
Good to hear about your classes
You'll do just fine!!!
Love
Gramma
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