<p>Was just at Syracuse for an Open House for Accepted Students. Seems the new Chancellor has bought property downtown and SU is "really excited by this acquisition" since they want to promote the arts more. What that really means (a tour guide let it slip) is that the Communications Design, Advertising Design and Architecture Depts are moving downtown (10 minutes away from campus - approx 3-5 miles away). When we asked at the Design admissions dept about this news, we were given the "we don't know for sure what the Chancellor is planning." My daughter wanted more info. Says it will affect her decision. So she pressed the issue. We were then told it's true about the move. Apparently Architecture will be moving back on campus eventually but no one knows what will happen to CD and AD. As it is, the art building is quite a distance away and now this. My daughter was very disappointed to say the least. She had been having a great time and was excited about the program. She's been offered a nice merit scholarship to SU, but the prospect of taking a bus (SU uses town buses for transportation) back and forth every day (and night) is a bit upsetting. I also found it disappointing that CD and AD students weren't told this news. We just happened to hear about it. Another CD student walking around with us said she had come all the way from CA and wouldn't have made the trip if she had known this.</p>
<p>weile...was wondering what michaelangelina decided to do. do you know? I was reading about cooper for a friend.</p>
<p>she is going for a year and then intends to transfer to Cornell.</p>
<p>I decided to take my Full-Scholarship to NYU instead of Cooper</p>
<p>hello....just wanted to see how eveyone is doing.... i miss our old thread!</p>
<p>doing okay. not 'great' only because school is still dragging its asss all over my face.</p>
<p>but terribly exited about risd.</p>
<p>most of the time now I just cannot believe that I am still in high school..</p>
<p>weile, While highschool really sucks towards the end, life can start to suck if you do not stay involved in something until college starts. Just a heads up. ;)</p>
<p>weile- i know how you feel...in general, these days i do NOTHING in school. I have very little reason to wake up and get dressed in the morning...i have to say- though being completely and utterally relaxed is sometimes nice, its starting to get to me...so i'm really trying to jump back into art...and the ideas are coming ...it's just the working part that's lagging behind a little bit. / ; ...but i am beginning to work on my "end of a.p. art" mural...so that should spark some motivation in me...ah well </p>
<p>also i'm rather nervous about school next year...but hopefully all will be fine...i'm sorta trying not to think about it too much</p>
<p>yeah, collage-ish - I was feeling like once I got out of school there's still all of summer. but I have three jobs so I probably won't have time to think about much else. and jobs are better than school because you earn money and it's money for college so the work becomes happily related to leaving. haa.</p>
<p>ha yeah angelina.. I haven't done much in class either but I seem to have some more ideas coming. I dunno though. They all feel stupid as soon as I think about how much I have to learn still. I'm kind of curious about which current ideas I'll still be pursuing in five years.</p>
<p>I don't feel nervous yet for school, just excited/happy. oh here's a weird thing, I met someone who's going to be in my class next year by complete chance. I was at UIC (University of Chicago) for a poetry awards thing and I was talking with my friend when this girl appeared in front of me and exclaimed, rather bluntly, 'You're going to risd!' I think I said something like, 'How could you possibly know that?' with a bumused grin and she told me tht she'd found my picture on the risd '09 livejournal group, where a we have been posting pictures so we can recognize eachother when we get to the school. Her name was Alice and as it turned out, she was 2nd place in this contest. it was only 30 people, from all over the chicago area, so it was very ironic and unlikely that we met. but we seemed to get on well and that excited me about school some more. ha, oh man, I might actually make some friends there.</p>
<p>hello again....
it's good you're excited about school. i have to say i'm somewhat jealous as i am entirely apprehensive about the whole ordeal...but whatever i'll live....just wondering...what types of jobs are you doing this summer...i was thinking about interning at a museum or helping my current art teacher at this summer arts workshop ...but i don't don't really know for sure yet</p>
<p>haa, I wish I could do something art-related like that. my jobs are a full-time babysitting job, painting a porch, and helping a neighbor clean out her house before she moves. I want to see if I can make a poster advertisement thing and get some little sketch-portrait commisisons. I'm supposedto paint a portrait of a neighbor, and so far that deal is 'on,' but I haven't had good luck with commissions actually working out. People always stop contacting me and I assume the thing is off. I almost sold something from the school art show but I was never contacted again, man, it's so annoying. ..I have NEVER sold anything for money or made money in any way off of art. it works for other people, so I have no idea what the problem is. ahhhgh. </p>
<p>but wow, i you could work in the museum, that would be great. I think my art teacher did that, he got to go in the back room and get paintings and rotate the displays. So he got to carry around famous paintins, how cool..</p>