The time has finally come.
I begin college tomorrow, September 8th of 2014, at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California. College.
/At least I have some friends/
I'm pursuing my dream of becoming an animator, specifically through a 3D Modeling and Computer Animation major. I've never been so excited to go to school.
See, Elemenatary school was great... I was nervous the first days, didn't know anybody there, but I'm a somewhat outgoing person so I introduced myself.
And then moving into Middle school, I didn't know anybody because I was moving to a school close to my house and where everything was new. It was especially different since it was a public school, and I went to a private elementary school. And the first couple of months I suffered from lack of friends, and I became more of a nervous person.
But by the end of middle school I had a load of friends who were all moving to the same High school as me. So I was excited for school because of my friends, but the school itself wasn't exciting. My first year felt just the same as middle school: work that wasn't interesting, homework that felt boring, stuff like that. Sure, I had a lot of friends and slowly gained a social life, but it was all math and english and history and tests and homework (although I will admit that I do appreciate history, in fact history is my favorite subject of all the general education).
College, however, is something I'm actually genuinely excited for. It isn't general education, at least not 100%, but focuses more on the things I'm interested in. My interests feature mainly arts, like painting and photography and sketching and animation. So going into a college that features and upholds those same interests makes me so excited for the coming years, even when I look at the classes I have to take (general education-wise--but only 14 general education classes doesn't really seem all that much when I look at all the classes I have to take under my major).
Granted, I did take two years of photography in high school. However, that was the only art I took besides band. To graduate high school, the student has to take 4 years of english, at least 2 years of math (but often people go to at least 3, because UCs require at least 3), 2 years of science (but again, UCs require at least 3), 2 years of PE, and then extra electives (like world history, US history, US government/economics). If the student only takes six classes a year, that student only gets ONE elective until senior year, and most people with choose language (i.e. Spanish, French, Mandarin, etc) because some UCs require years of a language. That's what I did--first two years I took Spanish 2 and 3 (because I took Spanish 1 in middle school), and that took up my elective. If I'd looked ahead and noticed that graduating HIGH SCHOOL only required 3 classes of ARTS (in general), I could have skipped the Spanish classes and taken Art 1 and 2 instead, and then Junior year done Art 3 so by senior year I could be in AP Art. That being said, I really did enjoy my Spanish classes because of the teacher--Ms Fig, who also taught life-lessons in her classes. However, I feel like I missed out because I never got to take an art class in high school...
So going into college, especially Cogswell, is the most exciting prospect. During my senior year of high school, I kept thinking to myself, 'when will this year be over so I can start college?' 'I'm so done with high school, I just want college to start.' 'I really want college to come faster because high school is so boring.'
And one of my favorite friends is going to Cogswell with me. I couldn't be more excited right now. :)
College... Boyfriend... Car... Job... AW YISS.
