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how is it?
How’s art school Beth?
You know, the place you’ve been waiting months and months and months to attend?
Is it wonderful and amazing and inspiring and awesome?
How do you like it…?
Do you like it…?
Hrrmmm… Ummm… Well… How to go about this…
Ah…. I guess…
Nope.
It sucks.
First year sucks.
I knew that going into it, but MAN does it ever suck.
I mean, I’m doing pretty well… Actually, very well. Very, very well indeed.
But… Well, here’s an anecdote for you:
I am 24 years old.
My wittle, adorable, baby brother is 17 (though we like to tell him he’s 13).
That’s a 7 year age difference.
He just entered college this year.
So did all the people who I am am in first year with at OCAD, who are all also 17.
We had this Liberal Studies class on primitivism and exoticism and eroticism – in other words, a lot of images of nudes – but stylized ones, like Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Some boys sitting behind me giggled their way through the lecture. It was as though they had never seen a naked person before. And then I realized that there was a good possibility that they never had.
How exactly are these kids going to handle life drawing if they can’t even handle cartoon boobies?
Hey Beth, the brother is 18 as of yesterday and a little annoyed that neither of his sisters called him, although about 6 of his friends did.
I didn’t forget, I just didn’t do anything this weekend except for work on my schoolwork. I have been more than a little stressed out.
And he told us that his friends had pretty elaborate plans for him anyways.
I’ll talk to him as soon as I can.
hey, i remembered!
well…i did…i just didnt get a chance to call.
i was on duty and stuff…y’kno takin care of all those 17 and 18 year olds.
and i think that you dont give them enough credit… as most of them have probably seen naked people before…trust me, i live with 525 of these younguns, they’ve done and seen a lot more than you might think…
they’re more likely just slightly sheltered and uncultured, which is sad to think about people at an ART school…but its sadly true, because most of them got into the school with a portfolio consisting of work done mostly in their high school art classes and brooding artistic suburban bedrooms.
im just speculating here…but this is what i gather
Man, I had seen naked boobs by the time I was 13. You’re classmates aren’t just young, they’re young and LAME.
And what ever happened to just falling asleep in class?
Could be worse – I have a brother that is 25 years younger..
Just think, though, that you will always be smarter, more well read and all aound more sophisticated than everybody else. That should count for something.
Right? :)