(Vassar) I majored in Studio Art at Vassar when I

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Date: Feb 18 2008
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
I majored in Studio Art at Vassar when I decided my sophomore year that I really wasn't learning what I needed to know to make it as an artist. It's true I could have majored in art then gone to grad school for something different, or maybe even ended up working in a gallery. But I want to DO art. I transferred, and now I'm at my second semester at a NYC art college, and I feel so much more secure about my work. At Vassar, the art department is traditional in every sense. Your freshman year, you can only take drawing, and after that, only photography, painting and sculpture are offered. Painting, more than sculpture (I didn't take photo), is especially traditional, only touching on abstraction once over the year, and for the rest of the time focusing on still lifes, the figure, and landscape. If you want to learn how to be more creative than you already are, don't come here for art.

With that in mind, if you want to take some art classes and major in a social science, you've found your place.

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