Don't frame your diploma. (I mean no disrespect to your achievement when I say it ain't worth duck shite)
Dear Graduates,
I wrote this when I taught at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
I gave it out last class of the year.
More of the wisdom/crap I shovel on students' heads to make up for them not being able to point at anything concrete I ever taught them.
Just because some of you are getting jobs don't even start thinking school's out.
There are tougher folks out there than me.
I wrote this when I taught at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
I gave it out last class of the year.
More of the wisdom/crap I shovel on students' heads to make up for them not being able to point at anything concrete I ever taught them.
Just because some of you are getting jobs don't even start thinking school's out.
There are tougher folks out there than me.
6 Comments:
I would never frame my diploma, but the thought of laminating it crossed my mind a few times. At least then I could use it as a placemat when I spill the meaty gravy from my meatloaf hungryman dinner on grandma's lace tablecloth.
Hey Mark -
My education continues. I have added sailing, snowboarding, scuba diving, welding, wakeboarding and auto repair to my skillset.
-payo
Clarence. Fenske. Stop flirting where we can read it.
Fenske,
Tonight I finally figured out what you meant when you said "you can't plan a fuck."
My heart pounded as I wrote the stuff. It came from some deep recess of my brain and just blasted out. My pen was too slow - I started typing and was barely in control of my fingers.
That Bukowski thing you hung on your door now also makes sense.
i never went to ad school. heck, i don't even have a degree. but, guess what, i can spare myself the stormy phase of UNLEARNING, whatever that means. Unlike your students... poor souls!
In our industry you are only as good as your book, my attitude coming to the adcenter was, "Oh great, I get to fork over $30,000 on a degree that doesn't mean a thing."
But coming to the adcenter I saw things differently. In fact, I'd say the best thing I've got from the adcenter is change. It's changed the way I look at advertising. IT's changed the way I look at life. It's changed the way I think of my abilities (or lack there of) to write.
Sort of an "Aha" moment happened regularly in Fenske's class.
(There were also plenty of "Oh crap" moments in that class as well.)
And now I read poetry. And take long walks. And write everything I can think of in a big black book.
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