Or why school is the best place ever.
I don’t really know why we’re all unable to see this, while it’s right in front of us. School is really the best place ever. When you’re studying, whatever the school may be, you can’t stop moaning about how it sucks and how the teachers are boring and how you’d much prefer to do something else. FALSE! You’re just doing your lazy asshole. School don’t sucks. You just don’t know how to use it.
- You’re paying for it, so get the most of it: Studying is expensive. Not everybody can study until they’re tired of it… Just remember that every penny you’ve spent to get in this school must be well spent. Go to the library on a regular basis, talk to the librarian, they know what’s good for you. You won’t be able to get all this books in your whole life — read as much as you can, and buy those that are really interesting.
- Teachers are not boring. You probably are… Teachers are human beings. Sometimes older, weirder, or quite different. But they know things that you don’t, which is uber-valuable. For an unknown reason, older teachers are tired of talking to uninterested students, and are keeping all the knowledge inside, thinking it would be wasted anyway. Prove them wrong! Get interested, ask questions and talk after class. No one asks you to be best friends forever, but then, being polite and adult can teach you a lot more than just sitting there, waiting for the apocalypse to come.
- Working at home is not working: How tempting is it, to stay quietly at home, while you could be working in your school studio. Watching TV, drinking some coffee, and smoking cigarettes can’t do no harm. Yeah, it’s the best way to procrastinate. Working in a studio is a good way to work for real: building up a team spirit, using the school facilities instead of yours… It’s like going to work: annoying but useful in the last place.
- Being a student is a full-time job: the odds are, you spend most of your time doing anything but working. Student life is great, it will be the best years you’ll ever live (or at least, until you get rich and famous). Student life gives you plenty of time to work on your personal projects. Mounting a portfolio, creating a website, having some fun creating posters, experimenting with all the possible mediums… Where were you now that you’re looking for a job and that none of this is ready? Mhhh, smoking cigarettes, again…
- Working full time is different: Working in an agency means that you’ll spent most of your time doing nothing but graphic design. No more time for crazy personal projects, for reading all day in the sun, or doing posters for friends. Get the most of you studies, because what happens next eats your free time like a hungry monster. ROARRRR.
Why does anybody that leaves school say that? I dunno… it seems that when you get out of there, everything becomes clear. You just realize how much time you’ve wasted doing nothing instead of having fun. If you’re lucky enough to study what you love, then enjoy!! You’ll never be as free. Even if a teacher tells you to change something (for which he’s probably right, but you’ll have to work that out by yourself) he doesn’t pay you to do it. You can still chose between to keep the work untouched and eating. And that won’t happen again for a while, I promess.
So, enjoy those happy years, celebrating everyday the fact that you are learning what you love. Or then, be doomed for ever to make bigger and bluer logos. Your choice.
This post is dedicated to all the time I’ve wasted doing nothing. If I could do it again, I swear I would work 10 times harder. If I ever go back to school, I”d do a lot of things I have never even thought about at the time. I really hope it’ll happen.
