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May. 7th, 2007 07:55 pmThere have been a lot of these reflective posts lately. I think we're all reaching a point in our respective lives where something important has happened. Maybe it's not very big but big does not equate importance. My not-so-big accomplishment is getting through my freshman year of college.
Foundation year. Oh how I hated and loved it. I met so many great people, explored New York, became more independent, and worked my ass off. I can't necessarily describe what I learned, though. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
typo1138 said (paraphrased), accomplishments in art aren't something you can put your finger on. I can tell you that I see improvement in my drawings and have begun to understand concepts but I can't really say how this happened. It just did. I may not be amazing but I'm working on it and it's a slow process. It's probably the heaps of work that they piled on us that has to do with it. It was intense and now I feel incredibly weird not having 27 hours of classses and homework (minimum) a week (I also feel like reiterating what Laura said about an art student's workload vs other students, aside from maybe pre-med, we have WAY more work than everyone and fewer breaks. Not cool). I made fantastic friends and am used to seeing them daily and hanging out with them almost all the time. But now I have nothing to do for three months (except find a job). It's so weird. Though I am very excited to see the high school friends I have missed over these months.
So tomorrow I bring everything to the car and drive back to Pennsylvania. It will be a bitch to load everything and then unload it. I'll miss New York. Brooklyn is home now. Manhattan is a fun place to explore and Central Park is a cool place to chill on weekends if we have time. There are always shows to see and sometimes we can afford them. I am so visiting over the summer and taking advantage of it even more.
Foundation year. Oh how I hated and loved it. I met so many great people, explored New York, became more independent, and worked my ass off. I can't necessarily describe what I learned, though. As
typo1138 said (paraphrased), accomplishments in art aren't something you can put your finger on. I can tell you that I see improvement in my drawings and have begun to understand concepts but I can't really say how this happened. It just did. I may not be amazing but I'm working on it and it's a slow process. It's probably the heaps of work that they piled on us that has to do with it. It was intense and now I feel incredibly weird not having 27 hours of classses and homework (minimum) a week (I also feel like reiterating what Laura said about an art student's workload vs other students, aside from maybe pre-med, we have WAY more work than everyone and fewer breaks. Not cool). I made fantastic friends and am used to seeing them daily and hanging out with them almost all the time. But now I have nothing to do for three months (except find a job). It's so weird. Though I am very excited to see the high school friends I have missed over these months.So tomorrow I bring everything to the car and drive back to Pennsylvania. It will be a bitch to load everything and then unload it. I'll miss New York. Brooklyn is home now. Manhattan is a fun place to explore and Central Park is a cool place to chill on weekends if we have time. There are always shows to see and sometimes we can afford them. I am so visiting over the summer and taking advantage of it even more.
