life’s not a paragraph

this week i had my last advising meeting…. so strange.

i didn’t realize it was my last one until afterwards, when it hit me that i just planned out my last semester of college. i just chose my last group of classes. after this, i am done. crazy.crazy.crazy. i cannot believe it.

considering it is going to be my last semester (gah! it freaks me out every time i say/think/write that!), it made creating my schedule really easy. i only have four classes left before i need to graduate: professional practice, internship, graphic design iv and a studio elective. besides figuring out what sections and times work, it was the easiest advising meeting i’ve had to date. i’m not saying that next semester is going to be easy, because it’s going to be far far from that, but at least planning for it was simple.

there was a designing for the greater good class that was going to be offered that i was really looking forward to since i want to get into non-profit work, but unfortunately, the professor who had created the class is now working in new york, virtually making it impossible (or at least really inconvenient) for her to come to boston twice a week to teach. i was really disappointed but then laura golly, the director of the graphic design program, told me that i could take advanced printmaking. i had a little dance party inside! i took printmaking this summer and i loved it. i have been meaning to get back into the printmaking to finish the project that i started this summer but i haven’t gotten the chance. this would be perfect because the time would be built into my schedule!!

also, i really miss creating things. the computer only satisfies part of that need to make. making art with my hands just has such a different quality and you don’t realize how much you miss it until it’s gone. that’s probably why i have started doing illustrations for every one my projects in all my classes, which is a bit like shooting myself in the foot because i am just making extra work for myself. but i just need to work with my hands sometimes. now i am superduper excited for next semester because i think it’s going to be a perfect balance of computer and hand-rendered work! wooooohooo!