<p>My son is taking a SMFA course this term and loves it. It meets Saturdays and I think he’s enjoying the commute.</p>
<p>^^ yes, lizzygreat is obviously a ■■■■■, with some serious issues.
Look at her/his past posts: sometimes s/he’s in the dual degree program with MFA, at other times with the NEC. Her/his posts make no sense, and often pull up wildly outdated threads just to go off on BS diatribes against Tufts.
My suggestion: Let’s just let lizzygreat’s threads die without further comment; we really shouldn’t waste the energy.</p>
<p>this entire thread is SO ridiculous in so many ways. </p>
<p>First “rightbackatyou”… You provide this persona of cutting down all the “illusions” of SMFA students and their cumbersome lives and discipline. As if you are the , god knows what, “SMART POLICE?” And you bring up some ridiculous s*** about Communism I didn’t even read about with architecture, you then address the SMFA “backdoor” syndrome with a line “Lenin would be proud”. </p>
<p>To me you resemble Facism the most on this thread. </p>
<p>Moving on, the SMFA tuition, if you attended budget meetings you would know, the money is given disproportionately to Tufts. A lot more of all the tuition that SMFA kids pay goes righ to Tufts! You want to lessen the bond of the stamped degree but you don’t even see! </p>
<p>This entire money issue lies not with Tufts , nor SMFA , actually its the MFA!</p>
<p>They are, haha, well… yes the “owners?” the “associates?” of SMFA? Which is one of the oldest art institutions in America? The big shakers if they really wanted to keep their stampede of collections and name as a legacy they would actually realize the amazing opportunity to maybe actually ****ing invest in the building next to theres and make the most incredible art school in America. But thats its folks. No more of this stupid typing for this stupid topic. Go to africa or something to complain about something real.</p>
<p>This is a 6 year old thread with some useful information in it, but (unfortunately) none of the more recent posts offer anything useful. I feel no need to respond.</p>
<p>^ why don’t you just lock the thread?</p>
<p>(This reply is going to be, literally, years late. But for future people looking into SMFA/Tufts I’ll post my comment) Ok, as a student from SMFA, I will agree with some of it. There are a number of kids, at least in my first year class, that DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES deserve a Tufts degree. They don’t care about their academics and are generally drug heads with no f<strong><em>s to give. Many kids don’t take the Tufts courses seriously because, really, we joned the school for art. We literally don’t have a choice with the program situation because SMFA is not independently accredited and therefore cannot grand degrees. So we have to have Tufts to get any kind of degree. While it is unfair, I’ll say this: As an artist looking for jobs in the art world, we are claiming SMFA as being the place we were educated, NOT Tufts. Secondly, not all SMFA students are dumb-</em></strong> pot smoking hippies (at least not anymore). Many of us are forward thinking and proactive in the contemporary art world. We work very hard and put in a lot of work for what we do. The degree situation cannot be helped, but SMFA is currently putting a great deal of work in to become accredited. So please lay off SMFA. We do our best and get what we get. Not all of us are users who ‘fingerpaint’. That’s an incredible insulting comment coming frmo someone I doubt has ever had any REAL interaction with art practice. For the record, I don;t know a single student at the school who dosent put in hundreds of hours learning about new techniques and working on their concepts and physical work. Just as well, we spend an enormous amount of money on art supplies, (I’m currently down $75 after casting a 1.6toz. metal piece, to give you a tiny example.) so the difference in tuition isn’t a huge factor.</p>
<p>For the record, SMFA CAN NOT claim that they are giving out degrees. It is currently not legal. It’s in the proces of being worked out so that we will get degrees from SMFA only unless we are accepted separately and enrolled separately (as in dual degree situations).</p>
<p>Let me add on that there are those of us who do really try in out academics. Dont group us in with the underachievers please.</p>
<p>FWIW, I worked on a game design project (crosslisted Comp10/Comp50 GD) 3 years ago with an SMFA student (forget if he was dual degree or not) and he was fairly motivated and definitely contributed a fair amount to our game (he did a lot of the story and was ultimately responsible for artwork and soundtrack)</p>
<p>BTW, some SFMA students also are dual enrolled at Northeastern University and receive Northeastern degrees.</p>