re: slip

very true! i have had a lot of shame regarding my unorthodox schooling, i dropped out of high school, was on track to get my associates in 2020 but took a break for a couple years because of the pandemic, and now i am about to get start bachelors in my late twenties.

i felt a lot of ways about it for awhile, i would tell people i was going back to school for my bachelor's sort of bashfully, but the universal reaction i've been getting when sharing this is glee. everyone is happy for me. sometimes it wavers that i tell them i'm going for art lol. but the time is going to pass anyway!!!

i do want to say this for anyone considering going to school for art fresh out of high school: if you can, WAIT!!!!

while it is true that art is something that you do not technically need a degree in, you are not really going for the degree! you are going for the facilities, the opportunity to make art in spaces and with equipment you may never have access to again, the knowledge you are gaining from faculty (who are themselves working artists). it is helpful to go in with the idea that you are not "getting a degree", you are creating a body of work!!

i have a lot more thoughts, but i will keep them. basically, i am really glad my schooling shook out the way it did. every USamerican should go to community college and/or an in-state school