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Post by ExquisitusAngelus on Jul 21, 2004 11:54:33 GMT -5
Okay, since I was thrown into the Graphic Design program, I've been having serious doubts about everything and anything. When I left New York I was all like, "I'm gonna join Media Arts and Animation and that's that!" But as I got involved in the classes, met people in the program and also people from other programs... I have been doubting whether I should really be here or not? I'm not bitching and I know I should, since this is a bitching corner.. ^^; But eh, I'm not the ranting sort of person. What should I do? Maybe I should just go back to New York and try to become a Chemist.. I'm seriously losing faith in my skills, and though I don't mean to, things are just slipping past my fingers.. like trying to keep water in my hands.. it never lasts.. someone help me.. >_<
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Post by Rotzi on Jul 21, 2004 12:28:37 GMT -5
Don't give up on your dreams. Otsel and I have noticed something about this school, it's full of snobby wannabes for the most part. We also noticed that people in highschool tend to act a bit more grown up than them.
It you want, you can have chemistry to fall back on, but finish here first. Don't give up on your dream. That's like telling them they've won. The students here seem more concerned for themselves and don't give a damn about others. It's their opinion that matters and nothing else, or so they see it. Quite frankly, I'm with Otsel. I wanna shove a T-square up their ass.
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Post by Kassil on Jul 21, 2004 13:11:44 GMT -5
I've noticed a lot of 'social science' and 'liberal arts' types (although not all) tend to be stuck up, snobbish, and arrogant, moreso than most people who study the hard sciences.
Possibly it's that art and such tends to attract those who have an inflated view of themselves. Possibly it's that the fact that the rest of us can't do what they can that makes them feel smug and uppity. It's hard to be egotistical, though far from impossible, when you're being handed soldi proof that the universe is a big, strange place and contrary to your ego's assertion, you're nit the center of it...
...Which is a lesson the snobbish jerks have never gotten. Just wait, they'll learn in due time that not everything goes the way they want it to...
While y'all are going to be better set to handle that the world ain't revolving around you, because you know better.
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Post by Rotzi on Jul 21, 2004 14:28:21 GMT -5
Woo! Go you!
I, for one, may be told that I'm good, but I always diss my art. I'll point out all the mistakes in it, and they just quirk an eyebrow.
Oh well. He's right, Mako-chan!
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Post by dazura on Jul 21, 2004 14:29:39 GMT -5
I don't think I can say what Kassil said much better than he did.
But I certainly agree that some fields tend to attract very different people than others. At my school, I've noticed that something like Business attracts very different people than do my other fields, Computer Science and Linguistics, and I fit in far better with the CS/Linguistics people. The Business people seem rather more arrogant and conservative and (probably, though I haven't systematically collected data) religious.
That doesn't mean that I want to aviod it; I find the material fascinating. It's just that the people are different.
If it's your dream to do art, then don't leave just because of the others who are also in art. Keep at it, and work at it, and you'll move on as an artist and fulfill your dream, and these snobs will have gone on their own paths. But if you really come to believe that it's the art that you don't like, and not the people, and that you'll like Chemistry better, then I'm not going to advise you to ignore your new dream to focus on your old one.
I can't say for you which you'd prefer, but do try to focus on the material, not the people.
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Post by NaughtyOtsel on Jul 21, 2004 16:17:17 GMT -5
What I do is put my nose to the grindstone and work work work. I'm here for the business, not for fun. So these bitchy art jerks can lead, follow, or get the fuck outta my way! GRRRRRRRR.....my goal is to be the best in my graduating class and by golly I'm gonna try and do it even if it bloody kills me...and I think I'll take a few of them down with me. ::is thisclose to going on a spray adhesive fueled rampage of destruction and exacto knives::
At least I get an amusing image in my head whenever I deal with these people: "Oh....my...you seem to have something hanging from your nose...::grabs the nose ring and JERKS IT OUT WITH BLOOD SPURTING MALACE:: Oop my bad! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
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Post by Kassil on Jul 22, 2004 2:42:18 GMT -5
Otsel. Just carry a 9-volt battery. Most of those rings are made out of conductive materials, ne?
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Post by Kassil on Jul 22, 2004 2:47:32 GMT -5
...In all truth, it kind of amuses me to be here. I seem to be the left-brainer among the boards right now, given that I tend towards the hard sciences rather than art, although I've been told I'm a good writer...
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Post by NaughtyOtsel on Jul 22, 2004 21:35:18 GMT -5
Otsel. Just carry a 9-volt battery. Most of those rings are made out of conductive materials, ne? hehe...sounds like a good idea, easier to carry than the car battery |
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Post by Rotzi on Jul 22, 2004 21:57:21 GMT -5
sounds like fun.. can I help with the torture?
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Post by Kassil on Jul 23, 2004 5:24:51 GMT -5
Car batteries can be fatal. 9-volts should just sting like a bitch.
Of course, I could supply al kinds of ideas for torture... Given that at one point, the (censored by the Interdimensional Council Against Uttering of Profane Names) Inquisition had me stuffed away in their dungeons...
...Though a couple of them did live to regret it. *shifty*
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Post by ExquisitusAngelus on Jul 23, 2004 12:09:08 GMT -5
You guys, thank you so much for your advice and help. It's just that I tend to judge my work, and subconsciously compare it to other people's and I think the worst. I truly love art with an undying and neverending passion, but I'll work harder to improve not only in the skills, but in the sense of business as well. I'll strive to become one of the very best, at whatever the cost. I don't feel as confused anymore. ^___^
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Post by Kassil on Jul 23, 2004 14:05:05 GMT -5
You're an artist. There's some built-in flaw to most of the good artist's I've seen that makes them judge all their work harshly.
Then there's the crappy arteests, as Otsel would call them, who seem convinced that flicking paint at a canvas is artistic.
...Hell, even I can do that, and I've got all the artistic ability of a three-week-dead rabbit baking in the Nevada summer sun.
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Post by ExquisitusAngelus on Jul 23, 2004 15:36:09 GMT -5
Aww! -snuggles!- >.<
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Post by DivenWest on Jul 24, 2004 23:41:06 GMT -5
I've got all the artistic ability of a three-week-dead rabbit baking in the Nevada summer sun. Hell, if they can spray a hotel room down with melted cheese and call it art, you got a chance with the dead rabbit. |
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