samedi 14 janvier 2017

In a parallel universe...

If I hadn't decided at the age of, like, 12 that I was going to do fine art, and committed to it, and then deciding I actually didn't want to do fine art but still loved art because I'd developed this love within myself for years, and then decided to do Art History, I think I would've instead studied (in order of preference)...

  1. English / Comparative Literature
  2. Sociology / Anthropology
  3. East Asian Studies (though probably as a double major anyway) 
  4. Film
  5. Linguistics
  6. Political Science / International Relations
  7. History
  8. Archeology
  9. Architecture (but I really am not interested in buildings. Maybe I would've been.) 
  10. Creative Writing
Wow. I really am a wenke child. I did consider doing Pure Mathematics for about 0.2 seconds before coming back into the real world. I wonder what kind of person I'd be like today if I'd decided at age 12 that my passion in life was going to be one of those 10 things. Or if I hadn't had a passion earlier and had to decide in 2016, like many of my friends. And what things will be like in the future. 

When I see myself in 10 years, there are a lot of possibilities. My favorite possibility is to become a film director. But considering I don't take IB Film, and am not going to study film at university... I don't know how I'll achieve it. Then again, it's not that hard, really, to enter the industry. History of Art gives you a framework for life, and especially for all things visual. I wrote in my Yale application that I find cinema to be gesamtkunstwerk. 

That's why America is so appealing. Because you can take whatever classes you want. Even if you don't major in them in the end. I actually don't know... at Oxford, do you only take classes in your degree? Or are you allowed to take anything you'd like? I think probably not...? And the whole structure is tutorial-based. I actually don't know if every class is tutorial based, or only some are, and others are lectures. Wow I really don't know that much. There's not too much information on specific stuff like that.

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