The Semester to Come...

Instead of homework, I shall update...

Well, I have seen my semester and I can say much of it will be spent at an AVID workstation (especially the end). I can honestly say this doesn't bother me much as I like working on AVID, but lord do I have a lot of work ahead of me.

I'm basically taking three capstone courses at once. My Advanced TV Production class is literally just one giant project that will result in my creating a short long-form feature (15-60 mins). It's actually pretty awesome because there is no restrictions or limitations on what we want to do. If we want, it can be completely experimental. It's gonna be a huge pain in the ass pulling together a crew and actors and all that (assuming I do fiction). It's already making my head spin, but the possibilities are endless since it's the only project we have for the entire class. The last time I had to write, produce, and direct a feature, I only had 3 weeks to pull it together, so everything was rush and sucked. This is much more promising.

My TV Editing class is just one huge AVID tutorial whereby I learn lots of techniques on how to become an editing machine. Truly tedious stuff but post-production editing is something I love doing. It's really one of those instant-gratification sports whereby you have something to show for all your hard work as soon as you finish. If I were to enter the television industry and rise to the position of post-production editor, while my life would be spent hellishly in a small room staring at computer screens for hours upon hours on end, I think it would give me great satisfaction to still have the opportunity to do so. The other plus side of this class is that everything I learn can be applied to my Advanced TV Production class.

My third class is Spanish Seminar which is actually just about Argentinian culture. While I have almost no knowledge or understanding of Argentina (nor much interest to learn about it at this point, to be honest), I do need this class to complete my Spanish minor so I will have to suck it up and deal. The professor is the head of the Spanish department, who happens to be a past-middle-aged Jewish guy who seems to have an unhealthy fixation with Argentina. That's fine I guess. The only thing is, although the class is to be taught entirely in Spanish, half the time he can't figure out how to make his point so he ends up going on in English anyway. Honestly, I'm all right with this, but it does make one wonder if he may have raised to the position of department head by some peculiar circumstances. The class itself actually looks to be pretty difficult. Some of the readings he assigned are downright impossible for me to comprehend. Some of it is really abstract stuff written in collegiate level Spanish (I probably can read at an 8th grade level if I had to guess). It's the reading for this class that I am currently not doing so I could update my blog.

Still hanging low with mono or whatever I have. Got an appt. with the doctor on Wednesday. Hopefully this'll be cleared up by then and I can resume being normal. I think this is the longest I've gone without a beer since I've turned 21. I guess I shouldn't complain that I'm forced to be healthy, but there's always something worth griping about, eh?

Not really a whole hell of a lot to report on otherwise. It's nice being in Boston, however it sucks being stuck in my room most of the time. Maybe things will get a little more interesting once I'm out and about. 'Til then...