Present Joys

This, my second-to-last week of school, started uneventfully with motion graphics—a class whose negligible workload has been absolutely perfect for this final semester. Tuesday, I spent way too much time on jewelry—a class with a significantly more burdensome workload. I cast some silver then spent the rest of the morning cleaning up my cast. I worked through lunch, including pouring an ingot from leftover silver. Mr. Mohr let us skip tuesday’s Senior Ad to prep for Directions, so after jewelry, I went directly to the library and worked on thesis stuff with Theresa, taking a short break with Ian before my art history class at 3:30pm.

I drove back down to school later tuesday evening to use the roll printer for thesis. Being the night before Directions, CCAD’s senior career fair, the print lab was a madhouse. Thankfully, though, I got most everything printed successfully. (Stay tuned for thesis updates!)

I spent wednesday morning readying myself for Directions. After loading my car full of fragile things, I drove to the Aladdin Shrine Center at Easton and set up. At 3pm, the school served us pizza, then from 4–7pm, we showed our portfolios and socialized with recruiters and employers. My table was in the corner of the room, which was a bummer. I was glad when everything was over—let’s just put it that way. After the event, Mr. Mohr and I met up with a few 2013 grads at Fadó, across the street from the Aladdin Shrine Center.

Thursday, although quite busy, was a nice respite after the haze of Directions. I sweated and fussed over aggravating jewelry work—but only until 11am, when Dana and I went and checked out this week’s fine arts thesis shows. In our final Senior Ad class of the year, at 12:30pm, we had a tabletop critique to pitch our final senior thesis projects. While discussing Theresa’s exhibition design, the entire class crammed itself into a little storage closet. A lovely photo op!

Everything is briskly coming to an end. I submitted my 10-page term paper for History of 2-D Design and got a nice grade back; I’ll take a final test for that next tuesday.