Moving In and Orientating

WOO HOO first blog post! (from Zoë). I'll usually post on Thursdays, but for these first ones anything goes.

THE SHOPPING:
As usual, you approached this from a way more organized standpoint, making lists and such. I just things when I thought about them, which resulted in one trip to Ikea, three trips to Bed Bath and Beyond, and a few trips to CVS once in Boston. Side note but the "beyond" part of Bed Bath and Beyond isn't very expansive. I mean they have all the kitchen stuff and the lovely "as seen on tv" section, but that's a pretty depressing representation of the abstract idea of "beyond."

THE BOMBARDMENT OF QUESTIONS:
When you come from a place as small as Swarthmore it's very difficult to answer the question, "So where are you from?" I've taken to just saying Philadelphia, and then only saying "Well, a suburb of it," if the person asks a follow up question. I've found that when you answer with "Swarthmore Pennsylvania," the people who haven't heard of the college think that you're a hick from Pennsyltuckey, and the people who HAVE heard of the college think you're a crazy liberal-hippy-environmentalist who doesn't shave their legs or armpits and goes commando.

Then there's the major question, which at Emerson is kind of hilarious because we all pretend to know what all the majors actually entail. Like, if someone answers with Marketing and Communication, we're like, "Oh cool, I have an uncle or something that does that." Or with Political Science, "HOLY SHIT we've got James Carville over here!"

You're totally right about the majors that can be described as a verb or activity. For instance it's much easier to answer with "animation" than it is to answer with "corporate communications." The sociology majors have it the worst, bless their hearts.

When you answer the major question with Film like I do, the follow up question is usually, "Oh and what are you interested in doing?" And then you have to come to terms with the fact that (mostly) everyone wants to direct, and that not all of us will continue to want to direct, and that if you choose something else it's like you gave up on your childhood dream, and that even though it's completely unlikely that out of several hundred freshmen film students all of them will hold on to that dream, there will still be that small part of us that secretly wants to be David Fincher, and that only David Fincher can actually BE David Fincher, and that we're not ready to have our dreams crushed like that, and that run on lists are a very grammatically irresponsible way to construct a sentence.

In general, things keep on flip-flopping in between, "you guys are going to have so much fun in Boston," and, "you're going to work so hard because THIS SHIT IS REAL!" (Or o-fish-e-al as you would say). As odd as it may sound  I'm looking forward to the work way more than I'm looking forward to the other stuff, maybe just because this may be this first time that I'm really pursuing something I honestly care about. And the knowledge that I'm passionate about what I'm about to do makes the whole thing seem way more manageable than if not, which is why I would encourage others to do the same.