Guilty about not adding a post- back to school!

Alright.  I’m back at school.  I’ve even had my first day of class.

School reschedule in rought.  I keep forgetting that.  Total life switch.

Those who watched my tweets though must have noticed that I had this brief twitter session about entrepeneurship.  What was that about.  I was at “Jobbing” bootcamp, and we had an Entrepenuer there.  So I live tweeted.   And I rarely tweet.  I was feeling sort of miserable the week or two before.  You can tell because I don’t blog or tweet.  Don’t ask. His name was David Chung and he started started Fantansia Fresh Juice.  Now he’s starting I Wish Lessons.  I think that’s awesome.  He was an extremely good speaker and clearly explained a lot about the process of becoming an entrepenuer and how it relates to daily life.

For the sake of the unschooling/self-schooling camp here are the tweets.  I admited  he was a bit odded out that anyone would do that (For me this is normal, especially if the person is inspiring in a way. why would you not want the information out there so that people can learn from it?)

Some notes on the tweets.

Reading back over them, they seem very over the top.  They are that way, because they are tweets.  For Example  Practical economics are valuable.  He was talking about the major, as in the degree.  Further, as usual, my spelling sucks

Also note that I was twittering myself and this blog out at the same time.  I had stopped for a while.  The reason was mostly that I felt it was sort of useless, and I didn’t understand what was flying or where I was.  Being close to finishing school is really scary and difficult.  I had stopped twittering out posts for the most part because I was in a funk and didn’t know what to do.  The idea of not knowing what I am doing in the proverbial tomorrow kinda scares me.  (which is normal, I realize).  I also know that I need to do skill building and meet lots of people in order to build the stuff I want to build and add value to society. And it is hard making that tradeoff.

It is also good to hear that his randomness exactly matches my own.  I seem so much more normal now.  Phew! (one of the back stories of why he did this was so that he would have a source of cash to write screenplays.  At one point it was so I can always have art supplies.  Bring on the charcoal!)  Another important take away that it is immensely fulfilling if you have that need to build things, to create stuff, to build companies.  Apparently for him it was more fulfilling than writing screenplays.  It might explain my antsiness and intensity just a tad.

Even if I don’t start doing whatever I’m doing right this second, he was a very inspiring speaker because at least he was open enough about trying and taking a leap.  Which is excellent and every student should hear that message at least once in his/her lifetime.  (since you stay a student forever, if you are smart about lifelong learning, always something new to learn every day).  I’m glad of all the sessions, this is the one I went to.

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Beyond that lovely event (and he was awesome, and went IWish comes to NY, my plug, you should see if you can use GroupOn to check them out), I am slightly anxious about what I am doing after Decemeber.  I have to be in Chicago twice.  Once probably in March, and Once in June, for my Critiques (go degree-ing!).  I learned that I am facinated talking to bankers, yet I think that I tend to be sligbtly all over the place as the idea person.  And I love being that idea person, and I wish I knew how to get that person slightly, contained.

How do you find an internship for that weird period of time?  So that I can figure out what to do with my life.  I’m hearing everything that I should look at design firms (conceptual art background), to consulting, to what?

How do you know what is right for you?

I mean, I love making art because I love studying people.  So far my favorite class I took was about the Internet and the Law*.  And the class I am most looking forward to taking is “The History of Modern banking from the 1980′s until now” taught by an Alum who feels like (go him, he’s being smart with his spare time.  He’s doing an oddball form of hacking education.  I doubt most people in Wall Street Land would ever want to reach out and teach thier own history, yet it is really important to do so.  So go him.)  I’m also way too terrified of anything involving a suit.  I’m afraid of losing my personality along the way.

How do you combine the world, or am I looking for too much?  And why does growing up this way stress me out way too much?

Meanwhile, I need all the luck I can get.  it’s my last quarter, and my I am locking myself up in a studio quarter.  If I can find something local and coffee job ish, I actually could continue that behavior for a year  Any questions to any sort of stressed out behavior for a year, (I need to lock myself to do work for my senior project until I graduate), should be referred to my studio.  It’s over there -> (that’s my form of Humor.)  I still want to be doing something else beyond locking myself up in a drafty building.  (Actually I hate making art in studios after a point.  Art is in a street.  In people.  I love watching what people will do )

So ideas, suggestions, about how to plan out this quarter and post, are welcome.  Thanks!

*It was actually a really good class.