haha PMS will do.haha
but u know what..if you're already "in the game" and you're still studying, school gets boring,really.it is as if you dont really want to study anymore because why at some point, you'll think, "why still study?" well a possible answer could be to gain enough knowledge.but most of the time (we can't deny this) experience teach as more than books...did i make any sense?

Higher education is all about playing the game... no matter where you go. The point is not so much that you learn what you need for your future profession, but that they weed out the ones who aren't strong enough to make it to the profession. I am a relatively new teacher (only been out of University for 3 1/2 years) and I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the people who end up becoming great their professions are the ones who graduated University with B's and C's. It's not that they couldn't get A's, just that they were smart enough to realize that they didn't need them. Oh, and not to mention that higher education is just one big cash cow. As you can tell, I'm a little bitter I'm glad to be done with that part of my life and be doing something that actually means something now!

I'm in exactly the same situation. I'm taking a "Graphic Communications" course at a local college and it's been incredibly easy so far. A lot more so than i had ever expected.

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PMS, is the cause for the wanna be a different age syndrome. I'm in trouble, because that would make me an almost 52 year old guy w/ PMS. I want to be 16 again...minus all the teen-aged angst, because at 16 art just flowed- never a question about what I was going to do- I sat down & it happened. Now it's work- I question what I want to do...is it original, is it derivative, is it OK if it's derivative as long as I'm honest about it (why not honor artists I like with homages)? I discovered the same thing in school- aced classes I rarely showed up for. At some point I realized there are teachers that can teach & then there are teachers who are sedatives. You're lucky if you get good teachers. What I learned was you can learn anything you're determined to. I can also say that as an ex-art major & middle-aged adult- I'm trying desperately to unlearn most of what I was taught. That 16 year old I was didn't know shit, but loved to make images. The current older self still loves making images- but now it's like pulling teeth.

I wish I could remeber the author, but ..."Contentment is the smother of invention." Maybe it's good to be in school & pissed off 'cause you're bored. Where's all that pissed off energy go?

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How should I know Sirens, where your tedium comes from/ When you moan in the night from far off shores?/ Sea, like you, I'm full of scheming voices/ And my singing ships are called my years.

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I wanna be six again.

Maybe you are just very good at what you are doing.

Well, I suppose it depends on individuals as well as schools and programs. For example, I'm currently doing math and physics and U of T, and while I'm getting better at the "game", the material also grows more challenging as the year progresses. I find myself spending less time juggling with the game, and spending more time doing the material, which is extremly interesting according to my taste. I'm quite pleased with my "higher education". I suppose not being too good at what I'm doing is a bliss.

Well, maybe it's just the time of the year...maybe it's the weather. Who knows?? The weather has been quite unpredictable these a few days.

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Life is a game

Unless you know how to play (particularly as an artist) you will have trouble surviving.

The game does not stop when your studying is over.



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Oh goodness, PMS. I love to think that on my particularly sadistic days that it's just the PMS talking. When it is, I am happy because I know I am not truly sadistic, and only a woman.

Anyway, good luck with your school work. I envy you for going to art school, where as in two years I'm destined for nursing school. It's better than hard tests, long lectures, and dragging professors, am I right?

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The "being in the game" expression has been repeated so much it has become a cliché. If anything, artists should avoid clichés. If the rules of the game don't suit you, break them. You are absolutely entitled to it. Just consider what is it you want out of school -out of your life. You can ask more from your teachers, you don't have to just accept what's being given to you.

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