Back to School
This is a personal blog entry, no fun photo adventure in this one, just me talking
I’ll understand if you don’t want to read it
Just like the title says I'm going back to school
This September I'll be going to MIT for Arrow space engineering.
No no, I'm going to Centennial College for Photography
As of September 6th I’ll be attending centennial college and taking the two year photography program. As of writing this I have my schedule confirmed and the courses list is interesting. Some I’m looking forward to and others I’m not. One thing I’m looking forward to is “analog darkroom” going back to film! I learned the basic with a film camera and spent lots of time in my high school darkroom and fell in love with it. I’m also looking forward to the ”history of photography” I don’t know what it will consist of but I enjoy history and I like photography so this sounds like a good fit.
Now a few courses I’m not looking forward to are “learning the Camera” it seems like it’s going to be a really basic thing but being mostly self taught I’ve probably missed something. The other one is English. I hated English in high school and I’m not looking forward to this class at all. It is online so… I’m. To sure if this is a good or bad thing, we’ll have to wait and see. A side story about trying to pick this curse and finding it online, I was having a hard time with the selection proses and this class originally had me going out to the morning side campus. Nothing wrong with the campuses but it’s a good 2 hour commute for me and I had a class just before this one so I had move English to be latter in the day to make sure I could get there on time, this meant the class ended at 7pm on a Friday 2 hour trip home making for a 12 hour day (9am morning class) and 4 hours of just for travel. Ewe. I can see why people want to stay working from home
Luckily I found the version offered as an online so now I the morning class then English at 1pm. Much better, now I can go curling Friday evenings
So a big question is why? Why go back to school?
I'll be honest I'm still not totally sure why I've decided to go back. A career change is the main answer, I think. I love building props but this might have just been the shop I was at but the last minute demands of the film industry are crazy.
Example: you need a planet built, ok, you need it to hang above a crowd of people, ok, You need it by the end of the week, little problem, do you have the building and engineering plans for it?, No!, ok we don't have time to design and get an engineer to approve this item by when you need it. This or the more common request of needing hundreds of costume items made a short time period. I do love the job but some days it was exhausting.
It was a lot of fun working at that shop though, I learned a lot about the craft from some of the best in the theatre industry but this is a story for a different day
What do I hope to get out of school?
A job
Seriously though I'm looking for a better understanding of what this career might consist of. Centennial College is also known producing well equipped graduates with practical work experience or so I’ve been told. So as long as I put the work in I should be good and if not I still have contacts in theatre industry I can use.
What else?
A weekly schedule would be nice to have. I've been self employed working for Uber Eats for the better part of the last year or so now. I liked the job but it was hard balancing it and photography this summer. What day do I do photos, what day will get be good trips, what the weather like? To many things, and because I'm self employed I can pick what ever day I want to work or not work. If its to hot I stay in, thunderstorm, take the day off. I had no commitment and no reason to force myself to do anything. Now I do, several classes part of the mark is showing up to complete the in class assignment. No late marks just pass or fail.
Connecting with people with similar interests would be nice would be nice
I'm not sure what else to say about this subject, I'm nerves about going back to school, combination between meeting new people, staying focused on a subject for more then 20min might be a problem, and the fact that covid is still a thing worry's me a little bit
I should be good though
Wish me luck on this adventure