Virginia Commonwealth University

Date: May 31 2007
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
I feel that VCU as a school is very good. The only problem is that I feel I might have picked the wrong major. Art school is great here, but it definitely depends on the major. I am currently a Painting and Printmaking Major, and the experience has been varied. Most of the printmaking teacher are knowledgeable, understanding, and very supportive. I have yet to have a problem with a printmaking teacher. It's when you get a painting teacher that there are problems. I've had maybe a 50/50 break in good to bad painting teachers. Many teachers will be incredibly harsh to a student for no good reason (to "prepare you" for the art world… bull.) The good teachers will look at a piece and tell you what you need to fix to improve.

I'm planning on switching to Information systems, mainly because I think I'm very much done with art. What I found (in my case at least) was that taking these classes were making my art into something that was at many times tedious and repetitive. I would not however turn back time, as I have learned quite a bit from my experiences, and done more art in 3 years than in my entire life.

I also have no idea what the people complaining about anti social people are about. With such a huge student body, it's fairly easy to find a group to hang out with. I have a good group of close friends that I hang out with nearly every other day. There are definitely multitudes of shallow ignorant people, but it's not very hard to find a good group. There's a great range of diversity in the kinds of people here.