J. Shufini (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shufini) wrote,@ 2003-10-03 14:19:00 |
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My laptop's back, and it's lovelier than ever! There was still a suspicious burning-plastic smell for a while, but it seems to power up nicely, and thankfully nobody took the initiative to wipe my hard drive. Five minutes in the door, I backed up everything important to CD.
Meanwhile, everyone at my U.S. school is still a wanker, and my studio assignment here seems (deceptively, for sure) simple. There's a nice correlation between studio and lecture courses, though, so it feels less like I'm being pulled in four different directions than examining the same issue from four different angles.
The recent (lack of) communication with administratish persons only punctuates some of the problems I've had with aspects of the school since my first semester. A few thousand miles removed from the conflict, the whole thing blurs to absurdity. Every day, I'm less certain that it's the place I want to spend the next two and a half years of my life, especially when I know I could be doing better, more interesting work elsewhere. There are some really brilliant people there, instructing and studying, but their reputations aren't fat enough to give them much influence yet.
I miss my family and friends, of course, but it's not overwhelming. I know I'll see them again and things will be just as they've always been. In light of recent developments, the people I really miss are my studio. I can say that freely because none of them know this journal exists. There was a rare chemistry in that room, and the worst thing in my head right now is knowing I can't ever go back.
It's all a matter of dumb pride, of course. I refuse to take courses this semester which are equivalent to the ones I'm missing because here they're only offered to 2nd years... and I've been given the chance to take 5th year and postgrad courses which I find much more stimulating. Even if I take State up on their kindly suggestion to use the spring to "get ahead on electives," I'll be a year behind in the studio sequence, and I refuse to be penalized for pursuing interests outside what Walter Gropius might have enjoyed.
So. Heard of any good arch schools lately?
Meanwhile, everyone at my U.S. school is still a wanker, and my studio assignment here seems (deceptively, for sure) simple. There's a nice correlation between studio and lecture courses, though, so it feels less like I'm being pulled in four different directions than examining the same issue from four different angles.
The recent (lack of) communication with administratish persons only punctuates some of the problems I've had with aspects of the school since my first semester. A few thousand miles removed from the conflict, the whole thing blurs to absurdity. Every day, I'm less certain that it's the place I want to spend the next two and a half years of my life, especially when I know I could be doing better, more interesting work elsewhere. There are some really brilliant people there, instructing and studying, but their reputations aren't fat enough to give them much influence yet.
I miss my family and friends, of course, but it's not overwhelming. I know I'll see them again and things will be just as they've always been. In light of recent developments, the people I really miss are my studio. I can say that freely because none of them know this journal exists. There was a rare chemistry in that room, and the worst thing in my head right now is knowing I can't ever go back.
It's all a matter of dumb pride, of course. I refuse to take courses this semester which are equivalent to the ones I'm missing because here they're only offered to 2nd years... and I've been given the chance to take 5th year and postgrad courses which I find much more stimulating. Even if I take State up on their kindly suggestion to use the spring to "get ahead on electives," I'll be a year behind in the studio sequence, and I refuse to be penalized for pursuing interests outside what Walter Gropius might have enjoyed.
So. Heard of any good arch schools lately?
