<p>Congrats on getting in! I was accepted to the School of Design and had it as one of my two top choices next to Tisch at NYU. I ultimately decided to go to Tisch (New York City won me over), but I am still very much in love with Carnegie Mellon and its art programs (musical theatre, too--see below).</p>
<p>Anyway, I'd love to meet a few of you design kids and chat with you throughout the next year (or four years) about the program... to sort of live vicariously through you. Let me know how it goes, what projects you guys are doing, what design topics you're exploring, etc. So post your facebook and AIM and say hi, if you're so willing.</p>
<p>And to everyone from the School of Drama, I'd love to meet you, too. I'll definitely be taking trips over to Pittsburgh to see your shows, just to get out of the city for a while and also because your program is amazing (and you guys, I'm sure, are amazing as well). If I had more performance training, I probably would've been a musical theatre major because I'm just as passionate about it as visual arts, and I would've definitely auditioned for CMU (I've watched videos on youtube and looked at photos on the CMU website--I'm a huge fan of the program). Maybe in four years, I will consider an MFA. Anyway, I'd love to meet a few of you too, considering you'll all be on Broadway in the next decade.</p>
<p>I have some friends in the design program at UCLA whom I'm keeping in touch with for the purpose of what I suggested I have with CMU kids: inter-school relations with other design/imaging/visual arts (and in this case, musical theatre) programs to expand our networks and connections for when we graduate and are looking for jobs and to keep up with what we're all learning.</p>
<p>It's no weirder than people on say... Myspace... browsing others and developing friendships and relationships based on initial internet attraction. Or no weirder than you guys adding nearly every seemingly likeable or attractive person in your freshman class on Facebook.</p>
<p>It's internet networking, get with it. It's getting to know people at a safe distance. And this is for education and career purposes, which I'd think makes it the least weird.</p>
<p>Since that's something you Carnegie Mellon kids are not open to, as I said, just disregard this thread.</p>
<p>dude i saw some of your portfolio pieces that you posted up in another ucla dma thread, and they're brilliant - especiallly the magazine cover O___O haha my friend and i were ooh-ing and ahhh-ing over it. i'm applying to d|ma this fall; any advice on portfolio stuff?</p>
<p>wow AA that was so...umm how do you say.... retarded. yes yes. retarded. we are here to HELP these ppl with all the college stuff... which is exactly wat "IT" is doing. </p>
<p>I wonder if you even have any drama/Art friends...probably not...cuz if you did you'd realize that they are all awesome</p>
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<li><p>Please try to use correct grammar and spelling. By failing to do so and using profanity in personal attacks you're actually hurting our school's image more than I am. </p></li>
<li><p>I concern myself with things related to this school since it is the "Carnegie Mellon University" message board. Why should I help kids who are attending other schools? Also, not everything has to be serious on these boards. </p></li>
<li><p>Well obviously my Drama/Art FRIENDS would be "awesome" since they are my FRIENDS. I doubt I'd be friends with them if they weren't. Unfortunately, I believe you misunderstood the "LOL" which foreshadowed the following tongue-in-cheek comment. Perhaps you should have read the following posts from posters who either understood my joke as a fun jab or realized how unusual the original thread post was.</p></li>
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