January 17, 2002
1:49pm

Why am I updating my site from the library computer lab instead of from the comfort of my own home? Simple, I need to kill some time. My photography class has been blissfully cancelled today.

Normally, I would be happier about this than I am. Unfortunately, I know the only reason class is cancelled is because our poor photography teacher is probably knocked out on muscle relaxants. He managed to conduct class quite well on the first day, despite the fact he was suffering from painful back spasms.

My first week of school is not yet over, and I have already been ticked off. It's as if this place is designed for me not to graduate. EVER.

One of the last requirements I have to fill as a fine art student is to take a senior project class. This class culminates in a senior show where I'll have to display my work and defend it in before a panel of instructors. Then they decide if I'm ready to graduate.

Sounds nerve-wracking, doesn't it? Well, it is. I had to go through the same crap during my sophmore year. I thought I was being wise in signing up for the class this semester (which, hopefully, will be my penultimate semester here). That way, if I flunk my senior project I still have another semester to take it and graduate "on time."

Now my advisor informs me that I should have booked a studio to show my work in last semester. Then he says I probably won't be able to finish the amount of work needed to pass by the end of the semester. I might have been able to handle this situation better if...SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME THIS BEFORE I REGISTERED FOR THE CLASS!!!!

Oh, they don't think I see what they're really trying to do, but they can't fool me. They've already sucked nearly four years of my life away from me, and they want to leech a little more. I swear I will drop right out of this school, diploma or no, if I have to stay here one day past December 15, 2002.

So, of course I'm going to try to find a way around this.

It is true that I will not have enough paintings done to constitute a senior show by the end of the semester. I'm such a slow painter I'll barely be able to keep up with my two painting classes. However, I know I can get enough drawings done, and this is where the major problem lies.

For some reason, the art school severely discourages students from becoming drawing majors (even though it is a concentration; along with painting, sculpture, and printmaking). It will be very hard to convince the instructors here to allow me to graduate with a concentration in drawing. However, I think it will eventually help me more than any of the other concentrations; not to mention that it is by far my best skill.

All I want to do is graduate and go to animation school. Yet, Kent keeps holding me back with upper division requirements, and now this. They've taken all my money and probably any money I will have in the future. I'm so tired. I wish they'd just let me leave!

At least I can look forward to volunteering at the food pantry next Tuesday. I think it will be just what I need to distract myself from all this frustration.