Midterms are coming!

Soon, it will be midterms. I'm very nervous about Art History. Having to memorize 75 images, with dates, periods, artists, and mediums is proving quite difficult! Dean says that if you were to go to university, to study art, you'd have 200 images to learn, and if you're serious about going into a career in art history, then this is necessary. See, that's the thing, Dean...I don't plan on being an art historian, and I worked in an art gallery...learning dates was the curator's job, who is an art historian...never once did a child ask me on a tour, "exactly what date was this made?" They wanted to know what it meant, and why the artist painted or scuplted, not was it 1535 or 1635. And if someone did want to know the exact date...that's what the title cards are for! Read it!
Got a 90 on my first English essay. My instructor, Neil, said I write very well, and it was one of the best marks in the class. Now if only I could do as well in Design...I am not enjoying that class this semester. Yulin has us doing lots of geometric shapes with colour...I can do the colour, it's the geometry that's got me mixed up. Instructors keep saying, "in the real world,"...but in the real world, I'd do this on a computer, and I wouldn't have to measure anything. The client wants to know if it's reproducible, not are your brush strokes smooth, and is the work completely clean? I think that's funny...comic artists use shortcuts all the time, to correct mistakes so that something can go to press...they don't waste time doing all this piddling painting, and if something blops on the page...there's ways to correct it. I am wasting a lot of time doing tasks that I wouldn't be expected to do otherwise...never once at the gallery did anyone tell me that my work was sloppy, and I'd lose pay for using white-out! Silly. I just remember that the purpose of this is to learn more about technique, and to get those letters behind my name so I can get a better-paying job.