Last night I became a college student once more. A few months ago I applied to the University of Houston Clear Lake to start working (in a very part-time fashion) towards a Master of Arts in Humanities degree with a concentration in Applied Graphic Design. I was accepted (UHCL is not Harvard, after all) and started my first class, Graphic Design, last night. I’m a grad student again, just like that.
The class was ok. Standard introductory stuff. In learning the principles of graphic design we will also be learning a lot about Adobe Illustrator, so the class last night was just familiarization with that, and info about the syllabus and book and coursework. It looks like a promising course. It meets once a week on Monday evenings, so that’s what I’ll be doing on Mondays from now through December. I’ll have homework and projects outside of class, so the most pressing struggle at the moment is going to be figuring out a good block of time to set aside each week to work on my assignments.
Graphic design at UHCL isn’t going to get me on the fast track to anything, but after hemming and hawing and thinking that it’s something I’m interested in for more than four years now, I figured it couldn’t hurt to start taking a few classes. UHCL is close, and I get resident tuition (a must since I am financing it myself).
I’m cautiously optimistic about the whole thing.
That’s cool, I didn’t know you were going to take some classes. So you’ll be taking classes in both graphics and animation type stuff?
Congrats on grad school. I myself am looking at going back to get a Masters in Communications. not sure about it yet though. let me know how school goes.
-jessica