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From Xanga to This. (art school sucks by the way)

Posted by: salesosnada on: October 25, 2008

Well, I once used Xanga to do something much like this. Then Facebook happened, but Facebook is a waste of time and believe me, I was addicted to Facebook for a while. And that’s the worst thing you can do to yourself. It’s like this drug where you can be someone else, but then the down is you seeing other cool people do cooler things, when they’re really just posing. Isn’t it strange watching people take photos nowadays? People are more rigid and scenes are staged, mainly because the picture will be posted and tagged.

I go to an art school and these are my angsts:

-It doesn’t matter how good or bad you are anymore. B.S.ing or lying seems the way to go.
-If you BS, and you still have a conscience, you feel infinitely small to the people who are crazy good.
-Lots of the pretentious folk only talk to you only to either gossip or network. It’s never in between.
-At my school which is Emily Carr, their teaching style seems to be giving you loads of work that isn’t hard but tedious. They don’t teach you anything, either, so while someone’s making the next Citizen Kane, someone else is making a poorly lit and hand held film of their pet goldfish, and they’re both getting the same mark.
-(By the way, I’ve done the goldfish thing and I got an B)

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