Wondering what I should do now that the school year is over. I have been looking at taking summer classes but I'm not sure whether I missed sign-ups or not, I wouldn't mind either way, class or not. I have been school free for 2 days now and I've pretty much just played video games for most of it... To be fair it's because I got an invitation from Blizzard to play the Beta of Starcraft II but still, what a waste of time. I should be drawing and painting and expanding my knowledge of stuff, like Japanese! Without the linear path that school provides it's hard to get motivated though. The grass is always greener on the other side though I suppose...
I'm still missing my friends in Japan as I always do but I feel like this warm weather coming back is helping to revive the feelings I had from my trip last summer. The fact that one of my friends is in Japan for 9 months doesn't help make me feel any less envious either. Everyone is beginning to travel which makes me so sad because I have no ability to get anywhere this summer =/.
Hopefully making this prequel movie of an original movie that my friends and I did last summer will help make things more interesting. If anyone is interested in watching our rather silly but still entertaining movie, it's called "Shootout" and it's on Youtube. The prequel is going to be about a character in Shootout and how he does something... not really sure of the entire script at the moment but we actually have a script this time! Yay for that..
I apologize if this post was a waste of anyone's time, I don't feel like there's much body here.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
The semester coming to a close
It always seems like school semesters last forever until you get to the end and then I wonder where it all went. Generally I cannot stand Spring semesters because of the gloom that looms for months until finally nature springs to life at the very end. It's so hard to feel motivated while life looks so dead during the winter. When spring finally comes it's such a great source of energy and positive thinking, such a switch from the past months.
Even though I cannot stand spring semesters this was an exceptional beginning to the year. I got my first job since I had got back from Japan about a month before I started school and it was great to have money again. Having my job also meant I was having to pay for school supplies too... quite the trade-off. Art supplies aren't exactly cheap and I was privileged enough this semester to have to buy large expensive text books or LETB for my art history and psych classes. My third class wasn't much better because it was a 3d design class which meant everything was built from something I had to buy each time we had a new assignment. Bass wood, sculpey, wire, aluminum foil, matte board and 2 and 3 ply papers to build silly boxes that only serve to encroach upon my room yet I find myself incapable of throwing them out. I cannot understand how anyone can destroy something that they (figuratively) gave life to, abortion of art...
learned quite a bit this year, I found that so many subjects piked my interest. I am especially intrigued by astronomy and the fact that within our existence both atoms and entire universes coexist together. It's a thought that cannot even be put into context but let me give you an idea, just one galaxy can be up to 1000-10,000 parsecs, a parsec is 19 trillion miles... that is enormous. Multiply 19 trillion by 1000-10,000 and then understand that billions of galaxies lye within each universe. It's literally a mind blowing thing to contemplate. I wish that our government and all other governments had more money to devote to furthering space programs.
I have been debating for a while whether I wanted to go to summer school, it's not really something I want to do but I DO want to finish school fast so I think it's a good decision. I had also entertained the thought of going to Japan again briefly after I received an email from a friend in Japan. Logistically I could not figure out how a trip to Japan over the summer would work so with that in mind and the all too appealing alternative of summer school *much sarcasm intended* I chose the latter. I haven't decided exactly which classes I'm going to take but I had considered another psych class which would fulfill a requirement of sorts for my associate in fine arts degree. I also need to retake public speaking to fix my grade on that, something I dread with all of my heart.
I have been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have a second job on weekdays to create a bit of extra income. I would really like to try and save around $2000 this summer but I think that would probably be a bit difficult. I'm looking at buying either a camera which would completely fulfill my camera needs or a nice lens, both of which are over $2400... I have never spent that much money all at once before but I would like the experience.
Lately I have been thinking that instead of getting a bachelors degree in photography I would get one in Japanese because I foresee more job opportunities and it would nearly make me a shoe-in for the JET program. Skill in photography is much more dependent upon a strong portfolio than which degree you have unless you wish to teach in which case you'd require a masters anyways. I would enjoy teaching photography I think and I would still be able to get my masters in photography after having a bachelors in Japanese which might be a course I pursue in the distant future.
Unfortunately it is very early in the morning, 3:13am, as I write this and I should be getting to bed so I can be fresh for my psychology finals tomorrow. またね！
Even though I cannot stand spring semesters this was an exceptional beginning to the year. I got my first job since I had got back from Japan about a month before I started school and it was great to have money again. Having my job also meant I was having to pay for school supplies too... quite the trade-off. Art supplies aren't exactly cheap and I was privileged enough this semester to have to buy large expensive text books or LETB for my art history and psych classes. My third class wasn't much better because it was a 3d design class which meant everything was built from something I had to buy each time we had a new assignment. Bass wood, sculpey, wire, aluminum foil, matte board and 2 and 3 ply papers to build silly boxes that only serve to encroach upon my room yet I find myself incapable of throwing them out. I cannot understand how anyone can destroy something that they (figuratively) gave life to, abortion of art...
learned quite a bit this year, I found that so many subjects piked my interest. I am especially intrigued by astronomy and the fact that within our existence both atoms and entire universes coexist together. It's a thought that cannot even be put into context but let me give you an idea, just one galaxy can be up to 1000-10,000 parsecs, a parsec is 19 trillion miles... that is enormous. Multiply 19 trillion by 1000-10,000 and then understand that billions of galaxies lye within each universe. It's literally a mind blowing thing to contemplate. I wish that our government and all other governments had more money to devote to furthering space programs.
I have been debating for a while whether I wanted to go to summer school, it's not really something I want to do but I DO want to finish school fast so I think it's a good decision. I had also entertained the thought of going to Japan again briefly after I received an email from a friend in Japan. Logistically I could not figure out how a trip to Japan over the summer would work so with that in mind and the all too appealing alternative of summer school *much sarcasm intended* I chose the latter. I haven't decided exactly which classes I'm going to take but I had considered another psych class which would fulfill a requirement of sorts for my associate in fine arts degree. I also need to retake public speaking to fix my grade on that, something I dread with all of my heart.
I have been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have a second job on weekdays to create a bit of extra income. I would really like to try and save around $2000 this summer but I think that would probably be a bit difficult. I'm looking at buying either a camera which would completely fulfill my camera needs or a nice lens, both of which are over $2400... I have never spent that much money all at once before but I would like the experience.
Lately I have been thinking that instead of getting a bachelors degree in photography I would get one in Japanese because I foresee more job opportunities and it would nearly make me a shoe-in for the JET program. Skill in photography is much more dependent upon a strong portfolio than which degree you have unless you wish to teach in which case you'd require a masters anyways. I would enjoy teaching photography I think and I would still be able to get my masters in photography after having a bachelors in Japanese which might be a course I pursue in the distant future.
Unfortunately it is very early in the morning, 3:13am, as I write this and I should be getting to bed so I can be fresh for my psychology finals tomorrow. またね！
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