Well, it's been three days since the start, so let's do a rundown of how things are cracking.
- My first class on Monday was supposed to be ArtD 201, Intro to Vis Comm. This is the most important class for me this semester, as it includes my portfolio review and determines as to whether or not I can continue on in the major. It's a one-time only deal, very important - not to mention I was nervous with my whole "PC" thing.
It's at 1pm, which meant my wonky sleep schedule from Sunday didn't hinder me too much. I get there, only to meet a sign on the door saying the class was canceled. Panicking, I whipped out Piers, checked my e-mail, and found nothing (despite the sign telling me otherwise). The rest of the class shows up, complains, and leaves. I remain with my butt on the floor and hanging out in Chat.
- Speaking of Chat, I'm now in the mod-rotation. XD
- So I go back to my room and hang out until dinner, then I went to Art 103, 3D Foundation, which I have with Terumi and Jiaqi. We ended up dying slowly as the teacher, a grad student, kind of just..dragged...on...about...stuff. First project is to make something out wire. I'm making a switchblade (since Tati has one) that has cut off the ring finger of a hand (the latter being the idea of Johnny, this kid who I met at a transfer orientation, and who has clung on to us).
- Tuesday kicks off with ArtH 291 at 11am, which is the first art history class. I again have it with Terumi and met two new people. That was also kinda long, and at the end of it we had to look at a piece and determine if it was "art" or not. It quickly devolved into THAT argument, and one guy came really close to saying design is not art. *shakes fist* Barrowman!
- At 2pm I have Coms 100, which is just a basic speech class. This is my other grad-student-for-a-teacher thing, but I really like this one. She's really fun and is writing her master thesis on stand-up comedy. Oh, and she know who Joel Hodgson is, adding to the awesome. :B I do see it being a bit of a drag class, but eh, I'll live.
- And then at 6pm it's Art 101, Drawing 2, which I AGAIN have with Terumi. The instructor is a guy who knows me due to open houses and the like, but is just generally that "weird art guy" without being too out there. For instance, he has a restraining order on himself and had a robot marry him and his wife. ...Well, wait, I take back what I said...But yeah, it's fun, the class has that weird energy that comes out at night, and I can foresee it being a good time while also driving me crazy.
So today, I FINALLY got to be in Intro to Vis Comm. Everyone looks a lot older than me, except for the few people I know who are also freshman. In other words, Vis Comm was not their first choice for a major or their schedule was messed up.
The prof was ten minutes late and we were all restless as it was. But he came and then I became part of the group that was addressed as "you Windows people". There's three of us out of eighteen, and one of them, Hendrik, was in my 2D Design class last semester. He and I are going to be buddies, I can tell.
Right away the prof was like "I'll hold my tongue on that" and I said right back at him "And I'll hold mine in return". He probably didn't hear me (he also speaks very quietly and is really effing vague on assignments) but it was relatively peaceful. ...Excpet that he would keep saying "you Windows people" and then make it sound like the most awful thing in the world that we used the operating system we used. Jeeeezum.
My favorite, though, was him talking about fonts. "You Windows people know how to install fonts?", to which me and Hendrik are like "Drag and drop...". And then - this is my favorite - the prof goes on a, no joke, twenty minute lecture about fonts and installing them on Macs and where they're located and how to do it and why it's confusing and all this stuff.
Meanwhile, I had connected to the internet on Piers and was goofing around on DeviantArt.
I'm very computer savvy, so I know I'll be okay. Hendrik is as well, so I know he and I will be okay. This other girl? I honestly have no idea, and I'm a bit worried. I feel that we're going to have to keep up on the top in order to really make our professor know that we can be good too even though we don't use Apple computers. ...Then again, he did say "I haven't used Windows since Clinton was in office, and that might've been at the start of his term", so there probably isn't any hope. :P
