A Simple Week

This past week was actually quite simple.

There was no history since I only have it on Mondays and it was Labor Day. Animation basically didn’t happen either. The first lesson of the week was on Monday - again, Labor Day - then on Thursday it was decided that we would go watch the animatic thesis presentations by the seniors. Only one person was where he was suppose to be though. We also had it confirmed that our class will have to do two different thesis’ - one in the fall and the other in the spring of our senior year. I don’t really know why. Something about how the seniors last year said they got board.

Anyway, moving on.

In Design we have been working on flushing out our icons and starting to design stationary headings for our ‘companies.’ Concept has been simple with refining the concepts for our InDesign files.

Finally there was Phycology. We watched a movie. No, not more Phineas and Ferb, the  movie from over the summer, Now You See Me. I saw it in the theaters but I still enjoyed it.

Other than that....I had a meeting with Ed, my department head (yeah I know it rhymes) about graduate school. It has always been the plan to get a masters right after undergrad, the only questions were for what and where.

We talked and made a decision. Since I would love to work at Disney Imagineering he thinks that I should look at Game Design master programs.

I makes sense when you think about it. Imagineering is about designing rides, theme parks, parades ... with game design I would focus on environment design - how to make it interesting and more a person through it with fun interactions. That, coupled with Motion Design, I should be set.

So while I didn’t really have homework all weekend I spent about 8 hours looking up schools for both animation and game design master programs. So far I have a new book with pages on some different colleges. I have location, length of program, tuition, and application process all written down. I have also started organizing a binder to keep print out pages that go more in depth.

Over all I have 8 places I know I’ll be sending applications to next year. I’m not going to let my portfolio hold me back this time.

Not much else happened. I had meetings for 4 different clubs during the week and made Belgian waffles for Sunday Night Dinner with the new waffle iron my Mom bought us at the beginning of the school year.

Honestly, if every weekend is like this I’ll be happy. I could finish all the prep work for grad-school and even work on some personal projects I’ve been planning.

I can only hope.