Hey y’all I’m back
I know it been a while since I posted but here’s what’s up
with my life even now that it’s the new year (btw Happy Belated Year of 2016!!!!!).
So since I started my new semester at UNF as an Art student in the Fine Art
major, I finished with two C’s (not bad passing wise, but I wished I could’ve
of gotten B’s), working crazy hours at
my retail job as a Sales Lead Manager (I never hated the Holidays more working
for it). If I had little less crazy from work and got more flexible with my
classes I would have been okay, at least I passed and the school okayed me to
stay in the program (even though I was supposed to get B’s to raise my GPA), and
I am now taking Art History 2 online and Drawing 2. I really got to focus on raising my GPA because
it’s now a 1.09 (yay!):
So
I started UNF from FSCJ with a 2.8 GPA, after Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters
of having hard time with classes (failed most but passed a couple with C’s)
when I was in Sociology major minoring in Urban studies which ended later so I
had to take History as my new minor. My GPA dropped to a .94; which I thought
it was insane ended up suspended for the spring semester, however due to my disability,
many paper works, meetings with advisors, and the biggest help of from my favorite
Career counselor, the school allow me back to a new major that accepted me.
Normally the Deans of each Academic department wouldn’t allow those who are
that deep in the struggles of GPA, but I had a feeling the dean saw something
within me, they even don’t allow suspended student especially since the Art and
Music are the Strictest in our school (to me though I don’t blame them).
I’m really making such I getting B’s (obviously I want A’s),
as long I keep up with my project/homework and doing to the work. My job is a
bit time consuming but if dint have especially with the pay I’m getting I wouldn’t
be able to afford my classes/supplies or even commute to class. Now I’m in art
I trying to discover my career path, my retail job is like an open door for:
Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Management, Interior Designing, and Stylist. I
was trying to have more of a fun yet get to be openly creative to what where I would
get to work at. I’ve been looking towards working in the fashion field, I know
right, not to many people know me but I use to collect all of Seventeen magazine
and even look at others for the Fashion trends, styling tips, even got some advice
from my mother since she a fashionista herself (she might know all about the
fashion world but dressing up is no joke to my mom. Her closet of her fabulous clothes
from her when she was in her 20’s til 2008 (she had her brain tumor and gain
some weight from the recovery, she survived it)). I always had such interest in
fashion, I might not like some of the girls I know who gets all dressed up and
wears make up from known brands, and I’m a bit in my own style trend. I never
know my exact “stereotype” of my fashion trend, I like to just make whatever I
own work out and be very comfortable for the mood. I could write another blog
on this. LOL
Back to the point, I couldn’t believe that how much I really
enjoy art. I get so into it that I know I can’t cheat around or bullshit on my
art piece because everyone could see it. I even get excited to try other art practices
such as ceramic, sculpting, printmaking, even want to try to get photography in
my elective. Like in my other many majors I’ve been in I would either get bored
or find no point in the purpose for it to be taught. In art I notice that
everyone in my class has to draw the same casting but they all have different technique
of their own, unlike in my other majors someone paper could be exactly like my
just worded differently or had better writing. I know it only the first 2weeks
of the semester but I really can’t wait to see my drawing turns out in the end
as well my interest in Art history. Speaking of art history, my first professor
from Art history 1, she told us how she had a student who was a business major
and need credits for his international business course, so after taking her for
Art history 1 and 2, and later graduated. He ended landing a job because the
Company owner/ceo or manger (he’s boss), has an interest in art that he
collects them and even travel world to visit sites. He had a little
conversation about their favorite period of art that he ended getting hired and
would get invited to art events. Talk about amazing. I even have a Doctor ( in
the military hospital, my doctors got deployed, some of them do get deployed or
they are lucky to settle) who as such interest in art his wife is an artist and
has a mini art gallery in his office (he wants one of my art to be in his
galley when I come back for an appointment). Being in art, I notice that I see
everything even more interesting in the values it holds, I usually like to
stare at things and say things, but in art it’s like I learn to know “why I like
it” not just “I like it” it like I have to go deeper. It really amazing it like
they say “a picture has a 1000 words.”
