Speaking of homework, I feel the need to explain precisely what "homework" means at this school. I'm not referring to writing essays and reading and filling out sheets and such. No, that would be too simple. Instead, it's a combination of that plus such things as building 3d wire models of shoes and organic objects, doing still life drawings using only contour lines, making accurate plates of the front and side view of the female human figure, photographing man-made objects emphasizing positive and negative space to be transferred to a pattern, preparing a presentation on an artist or designer, and transferring designs into Adobe Illustrator. In week number one. In other words, it could get ugly later on in the semester. But oh well...I did sign up for this after all. It's actually quite a bit of fun, but it just takes some careful time management skills and willingness to do the work. I should be fine.
Oh, on a VERY positive note, the temperature finally dropped today. It is a very comfortable temperature and even could be called "crisp" outside. Much better than the 90 degrees and up that has been prevalent for the past couple of weeks. Fall is indeed on its way.
So, I thought I would share some fun facts about a typical day in the life of Shawn here. Here is my schedule on any given school day (times are approximate):
7:00 AM Arise and shower, in preparation for another fun filled day.
7:30 AM Prepare my breakfast of eggs and toast, with orange juice when I remember to buy it.
8:00-8:15 AM Out the door I go in order to walk the 5 or six blocks to class, depending on what day it is.
8:16 AM Descend 6 flights of stairs to avoid elevator waits.
8:18-8:44 AM Walk from 318 East 15th Street to 55 West 13th Street for my first class.
8:45 AM Climb 8 flights of stairs in order to avoid the elevator lines.
9:00 AM Class begins. (Oh, and another fun fact. If you're tardy for class even by one or two minutes, more than three times in a semester, you automatically fail the course. No questions asked. Yikes.)
11:40 AM Class dismisses.
11:50 AM Having rapidly acquired a sandwich and fruit from the cafe, climb 8 flights of stairs in another building to (you guessed it) avoid elevator lines.
12:00 PM Class begins. *cheer* *cheer*
2:40 PM Class dismisses. Time to run to my next course...
3:00 PM Final class of the day begins. (almost there)
5:40 PM Blessed freedom ensues! Time to find dinner of some variety.
6:00 PM I begin my walk home and leisurely stroll through union square during rush hour. So relaxing. (gag)
6:15 PM-1:00 AM Homework, social time, computer catch-up, napping, musical therapy (we have pianos in the basement for the music students), and general relaxation.
Now then, this is actually only accurate for two days on my schedule. But the idea is still there. I do spend a lot of time in transit walking places and trying to find rooms and climbing stairs. ((which, by the way, mini rant: If this is a design school (which it is), and they should have their game together (which they do), and if there are 14 gazillion students all attempting to get to classes at the same times on 11 different floors (which there are), then should not the solution have been to create more elevators, to install faster elevators, or to widen the stairwells to more than two feet? I daresay it should. Fail, Parsons. Fail.))
ANYWHO, I don't mind the schedule at all. It's enjoyable to be busy, actually. I also have one day where classes don't even begin till 3 PM, so that provides some R&R.
Oh, I took some pics for a project that I thought I'd share with you all...
Here is part of the park across the street from my building:
Here's another view in the park, with the cathedral where my church meets in the background:
The view out my window at night. Notice the Empire State Building casually in the background:
And finally, a random shot of the construction on my street. Fun.
Okay, well I really ought to get back to work. It's been fun updating all of you! Missing you immensely. Until next time...
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