Classes

[x_medusa]

I discovered yesterday that professors do not take kindly to extended absences from classes, even when one completes all the work assigned and has been performing at a higher level than one's classmates since the start of the term. Apparently, the lecture where the professor drones on about the topic in a repetitive and boring fashion is a vital component of the college experience and one that should not be missed, no matter the important events taking place elsewhere in the world. Wanda, any chance you will be substituting again in the near future? Or perhaps I should schedule an opportunity to discuss languages with the young man you were telling me about before I decide to lower my standards to those imposed in my class.

Also, I realize I never properly thanked either Terry or Kurt for submitting my midterm project. Please let me know when you are free for dinner.

Comments

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Most of my professors were appeased by the nice letter of confirmation from Dr. McCoy - it seems that taking a leave from classes to study with a Nobel candidate gets you a bit of leeway. Unfortunately, Professor Gottson in my European Literature class isn't quite as understanding. Ah, the perils of academia.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Professors haven't changed much, it seems. I can remember them being oh-so-very not understanding of absences twenty years ago, too. Of course, I could never say why I needed to run off to South America or the USSR, which always rather hurt my case.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

This is why going to fake college is the best.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Fake college = "art school". I always wondered.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

More or less. I spend my days drawing and painting, not discussing Descartes or mixing vinegar and baking soda. I have to rely on creativity and talent, not ability to debate or bullshit neo-conservative post-modern kafkaesque literary inerpretations.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I never could quite get the concept of an "art" degree. Art History, that's reputable. But I always figured things like art and music were a matter of talent - either you know it or you don't. Like athletics, it's something you can only really improve through use.

Of course, I have all the artistic and musical ability of the common tree squirrel, so I am relegated to sitting through classes on tax shelters, accounting principles, and macroeconomics.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

It's a matter of learning techniques and really honing your skills. Practice makes perfect, as the cliche goes, and art school provides experts to guide and advise students to create what they want if they don't know how to do it themselves.

And my program includes art history, story writing, and a little bit of business, too. SVA trains its students to become self-sufficient, professional artists, and talent only gets you so far.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I suppose I look at it differently, since the closest I come to art is invention - and there's not exactly anyone who can teach me anything there. Hence why I'm avoiding the redundancy of an Engineering degree and working towards applying my gifts in an advantageous manner with a Business degree so that folks like the Canadian government don't totally take advantage of me again.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

An engineering degree for you would be useless. What could they teach you that you couldn't intuit yourself in two minutes? Alas, my powers don't offer anything to my ability to draw and paint, except an eye for color. (Not quite that tetrachromacy that Manuel and Alison used to talk about, but similar enough in effect.)

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

Oh! I am being reminded - is you being wanting to hear the fairy tales of my homeland for the art project you are telling to me?

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I would think that you would have to 'bullshit neo-conservative post-modern kafkaesque' interpretations for your own art.

(I am not insulting your art. I am insulting the countless art professors who think that all art must have deep and complex meaning.)

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Take Kurt. I have to run off for a few days. (I'm missing classes too but I came up with excuses that my professors actually bought.)

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I, being the young man in question, am at your service.