communication arts

Yesterday, I fully intended to write a long blog about orientation and how long it was, how i didn’t need to be told to have safe sex/not party too hard/beware of stranger danger anymore ever again ever in the rest of my life, how the transfers seem cool, and how we had both awesome and intensely boring lectures. But you see what I just did? Long blog not really necessary. Although I will give some extra kudos to Jhon Velasco for an intense and amazing session called The Power of Words. It was inspiring, and I’ll probably talk more about it later.

But today, despite being short on actually content – compared to yesterday where I wanted to claw out my eyes cause of content – was spectacular. First of all, new roomies have arrived. Jenna & Alex are both sweet, and both brought their boyfriends to help them move in… so in our apartment there’s essentially a single’s bedroom & a taken bedroom….I found that sort of funny & fortuitous. I haven’t really had a chance to talk much with Jenna, she’s still moving her stuff around, but Alex has been settled for awhile now and is the epitome of sweet and kind. She made some really adorable placemats with our names on them and was all ‘I know they look like a kindergardener did them…’ but the thought behind them makes them so, so sweet. The room is shaping up into something worth living in – as if it wasn’t already.

The only thing I had to do at school today was my major meeting. We met the faculty and the department chair and I listened to these people talk about the classes they were teaching and the projects they’d spent the summer on or were working on at the moment. All of them, without fail, were as interested in communication things as we were. That may seem like a ‘Well, duh. They teach communications, Molly.’ But the thing is, its easy to be into the subject you teach, and not be interested really in the teaching portion of it. But these guys – they were as fascinated by teaching us as they were by their own research.

Also, in addition to being nice and cool and awesome, this program is EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT. I’d been contemplating the past few weeks switching to Political Science or Sociology because that’s the stuff i’m into. I want to work in politics, but preferably in the media/communications side of things. It could be phrased in the reverse as well – a la work in media/communications concerning politics. In essence, I want to work for MSNBC or a non-profit in arts advocacy or human rights, LGBT-kind of stuff – or maybe possibly get even closer to Washington, maybe possibly. So imagine my surprise when I find out our department chair’s specialty is media & politics. She’s teaching a class about it this semester. My advisor is teaching a class this semester called Web Video Advocacy – sounds right up my alley, right? So, needless to say, the major is not changing – or if it is, it’ll be awhile because I’m getting pumped for these classes. A minor in Political Science is still high on my list, though.

I don’t think this work will be as hard for me as some of these other students too. Not that I’m smarter than them, not at all – I just get the impression the workload is akin to that of my senior year where I had a lot of one and two page writing assignments a lot – you quickly learn how easy it is to bang out 3 or 4 paragraphs when you have to do it every night. So – for now, I’m enjoying my lazy lifestyle of getting up whenever I need to and eating what and where I want and just…enjoying.

That will end Tuesday though. So yeah.