Goddamn have I had a ton of homework in the past two months. My two not-art classes are really easy, but I have three art classes that are all three hours long and have absolutely inhumane amounts of homework.

One is a drawing class in which the professor is awesome but grades so incredibly harshly that it's literally impossible to get in A. In order to get an A, one must do a better drawing than the professor is capable of doing; a perfectly good piece of student work would receive a C. I somehow get B's on all of my assignments, though. Also, half the grade consists of how far along on the project you are a week after it's assigned, so you have to get nearly all of the assignment finished within a week of it being assigned or else you'll fail the interim critique, which is, to say the least, frustrating as all hell. I've also learned that drawing on a 36x48" piece of paper is incredibly frustrating, especially when one has to sit in a public space to draw the architecture there. I think I'm learning a lot in that class though.

Another is a class called "creative problem solving" but would more appropriately be called "bullshit." The professor never seems to known what the hell he's talking about, and he comes up with the most absolutely pointless, time consuming projects possible. Plus, he never gives us any guidelines on how the projects are graded until we're actually given our grades for them, and then it's too late for any changes to be made. I think one has to do copious amounts of mind-altering drugs in order to do well in this class. This is, quite possibly, my least favorite of all of the classes I've ever taken in my life.

The most bearable of the three classes is color design, which is exactly what it sounds like. This class is really easy to me because I took a color class last year and therefore pretty much know what the teacher wants in term of content. However, the homework is still really tedious and time consuming and involves either collages made of colored paper or very clean and designy acrylic paintings, neither of which I'm too great at due to my questionable craftsmanship. Still, of my three art classes, this is the one I have the best grade in, and is the one I dread the least.

In conclusion, I have so much tedious art homework that I barely have time to do anything other than go to class, walk to and from class (the art building's a mile away from my dorm room and I always have to carry a minimum of twenty pounds of stuff there with me), eat, do homework, and sleep. In fact, I generally end up sacrificing sleep in favor of browsing the internet like I'm used to, so I'm constantly sleep deprived, which makes everything worse than it has to be.

I can't wait until I'm done with all of the foundation art classes. Hopefully I'll pass the end-of-foundations critique and get into the illustration program without having to retake any of them.

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