The Cleveland Institute of Art

Date: Dec 22 2011
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
I'm so…I don't even know about this school. I have a pretty good feeling who wrote that other comment about this past semester, which is pretty funny. I know how she feels. Coming from an arts magnet high school though, I absolutely knew I wanted to go to a private fine arts school. CIA was an old favorite I'd kind of forgotten about by senior year but was reintroduced to and applied to. I got lots of good scholarship money. We appealed and got a good grant too. Plus low interest rates on loans (through the school! Don't do that Sallie May crap, you'll be in mega-debt). So, basically, we (my mom and I) got it down to as affordable as possible so she could stop suggesting in-state options. But I'm at a loss now. I felt like I tried, but some classes were just below uninspiring. I know you have to make the best of any situation and your time spent in college is what you make it, but between boring ass Cleveland, boring ass Case Western -who, if you didn't know, we share a campus with (CIA just has the two independent buildings and one dorm for freshman)- who we don't interact with AT ALL, yet we see them everywhere along with CIM who, unlike us, are allowed to participate in Case's sports, and what else, a socially awkward student body who is hilarious and heart-warming but hardly capable of grasping what it is to party. And I don't even care if it's a party school! But if I'm not really learning much I would at least like to be having a blast in college! So there you go. CIA is not the most rigorous, challenging, mind-expanding place you can attend. Cleveland is not a place full of hipsters and music and awesome nightlife. Notice that, even though Kid Cudi loved it so much, he obviously smoked a shit ton too, and now lives in Brooklyn, meaning, even he left. If you've been to art school it's super basic. Then again, I am in Foundations, which is why I'm so neutral, like, ya it kinda blows at times, but I still feel like putting up with it because I know they have my major and I could learn a lot. In the mean time, seriously just trying to make the best of it.