I have only lived in New York City for a couple of months, but already I have some opinions on it. Here are the best and the worst thus far--the list is not comprehensive, but it should give you a general understanding.
People-watching on the subway is nearly as good as people-watching at the airport. Once I saw a man with a haircut straight out of a Japanese samurai movie. The man I saw was not Japanese. Nor was he a samurai. Let's leave these hairstyles for anime, mkay? Thanks. (Although I don't mean to stereotype Japanese people or limit this hairstyle to only Japanese people. Everyone should never have this hair. Exception: those in samurai movies.)
One month and four days ago, I graduated Indiana University and said goodbye to many of my friends: best friends, close friends, new friends, and family friends. One month ago, I moved to the The City of Dreams and have fulfilled a few of mine: I saw Amy Poehler perform improv aaand that's about it. All in all, it's been a pretty emotional 30+ days--negative and positive. This is one of those posts that contains information to read for catch-up purposes without having to contact a lot of people individually. I love you all, and "It's been great!" just isn't cutting it.
The following video is a final project I produced for the TV Studio Production class. A couple of weeks before the production, I pitched this project, and my classmates voted on it for a final project production. This experience of producing a project I pitched, produced, and wrote was educating and thrilling. The day of production went smoothly, and I am proud of our production. I went in with the intention that the production would parody a locally-made, poorly produced commercial for a salesman pitching to customers—the production I had in mind was an SNL-like comedy sketch. I could not have done this without the help of my classmates, and I appreciate the effort and skills of the people of my group and those of the whole class.
I was the producer of the production and organized what people would be doing, etc.—after asking for people’s input and preferences. We had a relatively clear idea of what we wanted done that day, and we worked together to set everything up. Also, during production, I noticed a lot of the people laughing, and they seemed to have a good time during the shoot. This was a great relief in terms of the production being funny and fun to shoot.
Overall, I appreciated the opportunity to produce a comedy sketch that I pitched and wrote, which is something I am interested in doing as a career.
If I could produce this again, the aspect of the production I would change is the graphics. I envisioned this as a locally, poorly produced commercial parody, but the graphics look as though we did not put in much effort. Well-made graphics would have enhanced our production while still keeping the look and feel of the sketch.
Anyways, here is the embedded video. Thanks for watching!
I've grown up and lived in Fort Wayne my entire life--except that one year during which I lived in Japan and went to kindergarten. I figure it's time to try something new. In less than two months, I'll move to New York. For Spring Break, I traveled to the east coast to dip my toes in the city that never sleeps and prepare myself for the big move. I learned some things whilst doing some things.
The Metro
Never--NEVER--look at the subway advertisements.
Actually, most of them were okay and some of them were funny.
Because of the gross ones, though, it's not worth it. Keep your eyes on the floor or in a book.
Finals week is upon college students. A semester's worth of late-night studying and writing will be over in one seemingly endless week. Sure, some students have no finals this week. A few have only one before Wednesday. Other students have six finals and final papers to turn in. This student will not wrap-up finals before Friday. Finals week is when the worst and the best of us comes out to finish off the semester.
Understandably, the average college student will not obtain perfect attendance due to a variety of reasons: illness, tragedy, sleep-deprivation, or a combination of all three (for the 21+ crowd in Bloomington, I blame Kilroy's). When a student misses a class, the student might check with a class friend about any missed material. If said student has no class friends who can help, then often an email is sent out to the entire class to see if one willing classmate will share notes.
Three weeks ago, my three week program in London ended (currently going through London withdrawal). I stayed a couple more days, so it hasn't been a complete three weeks since I was in the UK, but it sure feels like I visited three years ago. I've been reflecting on my time abroad, and I realized that even though I was only there a relatively short time, I learned a lot, and I learned something really important.
