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Whine, whine, whine.
Heh. All the search hits I get on my portfolio site capitalize on my famous name. Nyahaha. Speaking of which, I need to do some maintanance updates... but have so little free time to spend on low priority things.
I was talking to my (grad student) cousin over dinner yesterday, and he told me if I want to get into the digital art industry, best thing to do would be to focus more on learning the industry standards (programs, skills, etc.) rather than get bogged down in schoolwork that won't even be useful once I get out of school. Not that I didn't have a notion of this before, but hearing it from another respected source... not encouraging. I've been trying to appease my mom all this time by being a good Asian girl and doing the studious stuff, but now she's telling me "You want to get into the computer art industry, you figure out what you need to do because I don't know about it", and I'm like NOW YOU TELL ME? After I give up going to an art school or art major, after I give up building my portfolio for cramming formulas into my brain? I feel like I'm wasted my time/chances already. Especially if I want to land a job right out of college because I sure as hell don't want to go to grad school. ^^;;
Man, I really need to switch major to CS because I don't understand the E part at all. ^^;;
Okay, EE homework. Crap. ^^;;
I was talking to my (grad student) cousin over dinner yesterday, and he told me if I want to get into the digital art industry, best thing to do would be to focus more on learning the industry standards (programs, skills, etc.) rather than get bogged down in schoolwork that won't even be useful once I get out of school. Not that I didn't have a notion of this before, but hearing it from another respected source... not encouraging. I've been trying to appease my mom all this time by being a good Asian girl and doing the studious stuff, but now she's telling me "You want to get into the computer art industry, you figure out what you need to do because I don't know about it", and I'm like NOW YOU TELL ME? After I give up going to an art school or art major, after I give up building my portfolio for cramming formulas into my brain? I feel like I'm wasted my time/chances already. Especially if I want to land a job right out of college because I sure as hell don't want to go to grad school. ^^;;
Man, I really need to switch major to CS because I don't understand the E part at all. ^^;;
Okay, EE homework. Crap. ^^;;
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(Anonymous) 2004-01-22 11:04 am (UTC)(link)And the part about working like hell to earn a degree that I'll most likely never use. I can't imagine myself going into EE industry ever, or even teaching it, as much as I love teaching.
*sigh* Asian parents, man, Asian parents...
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