I have never let my schooling interfere with my education

It's kind of amazing how winter break can feel like such a divider between the semesters. This semester already feels like a completely different year and the only change is that I went home for 3 weeks and came back.

My classes, though, are amazing and seem like they're going to make for a good semester. I already love my advanced design class. My teacher is this fairly old guy who was taught by some teachers who were around for the Bauhaus movement so he should be pretty impressive. The first day was yesterday and we talked about our projects that we'll be working for the whole of the semester. The one I'm excited about is working on the new American Rag store that will be opening next fall in Fashion Island. I've always liked American Rag and to be able to actually work with a real life client is such a great opportunity. The CEO came in to talk to us yesterday and he was so nice! He's giving us a lot of creative freedom and is looking forward to seeing what we come up with as long as it keeps in line with the original look of the store. It makes me a little nervous too, but with the whole class working on it, I think it'll turn out alright. We can choose to work on the facade of the store, dressing rooms, clothing racks, bathroom, floor, lighting, interactive website, tshirt design, graphics on the delivery truck, or the denim sales area.

My advertsing design class is going to be fun too because the teacher works in entertainment design which is exactly what I want to go into. She's slanting the class toward that and I talked to her after class and she's going to bring me a list of companies and people to call for an internship this summer. We also might get the change to work on the redesign campaign for CSI Miami. I've never watched the show, but who'll turn up the chance to work for CBS? I'm so excited.

The World of Visual Effects should be great. We already took a tour of the Zemeckis digital arts center and will be taking field trips to Disney animation studios at some point soon. Too bad it's only once a week.

Writing is going to be pretty boring I think and I'm going to have to drag myself there 3 times a week, and printmaking has all the makings of a boring class but it may get better when we get time to work on projects. It's at night and in this room that is all white with florescent lights, and the teacher has this really slow Italian drawl that put everyone to sleep in the class on Monday. Unfortunately I have to go there tonight so I'm going to guzzle a pint of coffee to stay awake through his lecture on relief printing.

The only thing that's really worrying me is that sorority dues are due this weekend and I don't really know what to do. I don't want to quit, but I don't think I thought through how much I would have to pay continually each semester. I don't know where I'm going to find the money this time and it's pretty unfair to let my parents pay for it. I've really enjoyed it and would love to stay, but it's definitely looming over my head this semester. Maybe something will come to mind or I'll find a job