Maxigumee

It’s been so long since I’ve written on this blog about my life that I think I’ve kind of forgotten how to do it. I was reading in my psychology textbook yesterday about how certain things that people do for fun eventually start to seem like “work” so they stop doing them. I think writing in this blog is kind of one of those things. So. Instead of actually writing out paragraphs about what I’ve been up to in the past few weeks, I’ve decided to just make a list which will inevitably turn into paragraphs once I get going.

1) I left Pratt. I really loved my experiences and classes at Pratt, but I felt that, especially as my classes became more and more focused on my major, it wasn’t really for me. The photography program at Pratt is very fine-arts oriented. While I do enjoy fine art photography and really have nothing against it, I seem to be heading more in the fashion/commercial direction, at least professionally. On top of that, I couldn’t really afford Pratt and being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt after college didn’t seem like it’d be all that fun.

2) I applied to FIT for the Fall 2008 semester. No word yet on if I got in or not.

3) I moved out of the Pratt dorms and into an apartment with three other girls from Pratt. (Pictures of my new room soon.)

4) Meanwhile, I’m studying at Brooklyn College for the Spring 2008 semester. My list of New Year’s resolutions said that I wanted to take more interesting intellectually-stimulating classes. This is kind of me making that resolution happen. Because I haven’t declared a major at Brooklyn College and my current plan is to stay there only one semester, I’m taking pretty much whatever I want to. I’m currently enrolled in four classes: French, Psychology, Anthropology, and History of Modern Art. The whole experience thus far is a bit of a culture shock, in good and bad ways. I’m finding each one of my classes extremely interesting, but at the same time, after coming from art classes that require absolutely no reading or writing whatsoever, the amount of reading is a bit overwhelming. Also, I find it much, much easier to procrastinate when it comes to non-art homework.

I kind of also feel like that since I’ve put more “intellectual” classes on my plate, I’ve kind of become creatively deprived. I got so used to working on a billion art projects at once that now (even with all of the reading I get), I feel like I have way too much time on my hands. Without the pressure of art assignments, I haven’t really been pushing myself to get out and make stuff, so I guess that’s going to be a kind of mid-year resolution. I need to do more art.