Again its been a long time since I have done anything here on dA, well as far as journals and deviations are concerned... I have been looking at deviations of watchers and journals, just not commenting on them.

Not too much has been happening in the art section of my life recently... mainly because I havn't had a lot of time, and not a lot of creativity and good results.. which I have found to be quite frustrating at times...

Besides art, most of my time has been put towards uni, assignments and exams. I will find out the results later this week, hoping it all went well. As for uni, it has been a surprisingly fast semester. I feel that I have somewhat adjusted to uni now... just when the semester ended. But also I think I am much more clear on what I want to do as far as course/career issues are concerned, narrowed down to 2 similar options. I'm fairly accepted now that I would like to transfer to either Economics or Education/Commerce, so either an economist or teacher are the 2 main careers I'm tossing up between.
Unfortunately, i came to decision over these holidays that visual arts is all but gone from any thoughts of university/career options. This is due to requiring a folio to transfer since I am no longer a high school student, but also I aimed/tried to get some sort of art done (not nessarilly for a possible folio) and just couldn't get anything done.. o rvery poor stuff that was depressing.. I feel that not drawing for about 6 months has had a terrible effect on any possible art making I wish for... thats what I get for putting it aside to my other best subject economics. So with that now, this time around at uni art is not going to happen, even though if I want to be a teacher of economics I would also prefer to teach art as well, not just economics... but I guess not right now... I can always go back and do a visual arts course if I feel I need to.

Other things, I brough a playstation 2 about 3 weeks ago (yes I'm a bit behind...) mainly been playing Final Fantasy games, X, X-2 and XII. X is awesome I have never been so drawn into a game before, however XII has something about it that has drawn me away from finishing X.

So yeh... not too sure about whats going to happen in the future art wise...
But I am reading most of my watchers journals and looking at your art, even if I am not commenting on them

Again its been about a month since I last wrote a journal...
I'm still fairly inactive around dA, I'm very busy with uni and barely had any time to draw if any.

So, its now half way through the mid-semester easter break (1 week) so I thought it would be a good time to write a little something.
Uni stuff:
Uni has been pretty full on, the last 2-3 weeks all I have been doing is assignments, all of which were due pretty much at the same time, so 3 assignments were handed in with the space of 4 days. Still doing the accounting assignment which is due on Monday, so that is taking up my easter break. Accounting is really frustrating and time consuming, I really don't like it.
I've come to the conclusion that so far uni isn't quite my thing. There's so many people that I don't know, and only have a small handfull of friends, but don't see them much, coz they are in different subjects or courses altogether. Though I have 1 friend that I have most of my subjects with so thats nice, but I don't have any really good friends like I do from high school sorta thing, but I guess friends like that take time.
Also on uni I'm thinking of transferring courses, I don't think business is exactly for me. For many reasons, 1. I don''t like many of the study areas, and those 2 that I am interested don't have many career opportunities in them, 2. I don't think my personality fits that needed for business, I'm very quiet, caring which seems to be the opposite of that I feel is required, 3. I'm not as passionate about it as I thought I was about 6 months ago.
So with that I'm thinking of transferring to some sort of Art & Design course. I'm considerring Visual art/Education, Fine Art or Design (Visual Communication). All need a folio to be admitted now that I'm no longer a high school student. So I am seriously considering taking 6 months intermission to work on that folio, as it requires 10-15 pieces, and knowing how much work is required of uni at the moment I wouldn't have any time to produce even half of that requirement.

Art:
As I said I have been so busy with uni studies that I have not had any time to even pick up a pencil to think about drawing, let alone have any ideas to draw, which is really disappointing. I feel that I'm really out of it at the moment and stuggling to draw or find much motivation to do so. That said the long weekend/break gave me a bit of a break from studying, so I had a bit of a scribble for a self portrait, didn't get a lot done, but something I hope to finish maybe this weekend. I have a few ideas in mind but not sure if they are worth drawing or just concepts. However I am considering fixing up re-drawing/designing my last folio piece from high school "Resolution" [link] as I feel since it was the last piece I kinda rushed it, and havn't quite done it justice as I feel it's one of the strongest meaning pieces I have, but thats a long way off due to time constraints and re-designing it properly instead of a napkin sketch.

So thats about all... sorry not for being too active lately, but I do read most of your comments/journals/deviations etc even if I don't reply to them

Hope to be more active sometime soon....

Well I started uni this week, it has been a good start to uni. I was very nervous about uni as I dont know anyone, and am not great at talking to people I dont know.. but it turned out well.
I met about 6 good people during orientation activites mainly the beach day last friday. Unfortunately of all the people I met I dont have class with any of them, I even do 3 out of 4 units the same and still dont have any same class... lectures and tutes are a bit quiet but am sorta meeting people in those areas.
Lectures have been good, microeconomics is easy as, its just a repeat of year 11 and 12 economics in 13 weeks, business stats is easier than I imagined, management is ok, but accounting is hard... I have never done accounting before and the whole lecture made no sense... and I find it boring I will not do accounting after this semester.
So summing up uni its good, a very different place/atmospher to high school, its more social and free... I have to get back into the habbit of studying.. I havnt studied in about 4 months...!
I'm studying a business degree, I plan to major in Economics, and maybe double major with Banking & Finance but not sure about that, and apparentley very similar and related to accounting so maybe not... but to be honest I dont know what I want to do.. its something I wish I knew what I wanted to do...

Art news... I havnt drawn in atleast 2 months... mainly because I have been busy with work... I dont have any ideas... I have nothing to draw... nothinig comes to mind.... I hate not drawing... but I dont know what to do.. coz nothing has made me want to draw...
So thats why I havnt been very active the past few months... I really hope things change and I can get some art up and more active...

Well thats all for now, I will keep it short

As I had a big complain/frustration with universities last journal, things have changed since then.
Just a quick recap of what happened.
I was offered education/visual arts by Monash, my 7th preference... when I wanted to do anything business related which were by 6 preferences before that, and I was also offered Asian studies/Commerce at ANU. I could have gone to ANU but then i would ahve to move interstate to a place where I know nobody, and financially it would have been very hard.

So what happened, the good luck!
About a week after the offers came out I was offered a scholarship to Monash university, of $6000 a year. This would have been more than enough to pay for my education/visual arts course, and leave me some extra money for myself. So this made the descision between Monash and Canberra easier. And in 2nd round offers I was lucky and got offered a single degree in Business at Monash, which was my 2nd preference and probably most prefered and flexible option.

So now I will be going to Monash university (Caulfield) to study Business, and I plan to major in both economics and banking and finance. So now everything is going well I have the course I think I want to do along with a scholarship which pays for about 80% of my fees. Although Caulfield is considered a bif far by some, I dont mind its closer than Clayton, and easier than moving to Canberra. So I'm happy I will be able to stay in Melbourne. Its just a hour and a half train trip each way to the uni, but thats ok, for about 6 months, after 6 months or so I pplan to move out and live on my own, somewhere close to the uni and city.

I'm now waiting and looking foward to O-week in 2 weeks and meeting many new people, it should be good fun.
Though a part of me would have liked to done education/visual arts and be a teacher... but will have to wait and see what I think of business... I've also thought about maybe doing a double degree with journalism or chinese.... something like that, but its just a thought, I have plenty of electives to use later.


So I just have to wait for uni activities to start and see who I meet, as I dont know what kind of people to expect to see that would study business... unlike visual art/education I had some idea what to expect.

As for my art... I havnt drawn or submitted anything in a while... though I wish I had more time to do so... but work usually takes up my time... as I work late nights usually 12 or 2am. But I will try to get something down, even if its a scribble/sketch... I want to draw!!!!

Well last week university offers came out, and I have to say I'm not too happy...

From the main university I applied to Monash University, I was offered Visual Arts and Education... that was my 7th preference!!! Not what I wanted at all, it was very disappointing, espcially since I had all the prerequisites for my business/ecomonomics courses I applied for at the top of my preference list. If I had recieve this offer about 3 months ago I probably would have happily accepted it with excitement, but within the last month I decided that I want to focus soley on business as a career, and wanted to be an economist, wanting to do a Commerce/Economics course, majoring in economics and finance, which seemed really appealing to me. But I wasnt offered any business related courses, even though I had results far better than required...
With such a poor offer, I rang the school careers lady, she was useless, pretty much told me, that my maths wasnt good enough, and should give up. So I rang the university directly for 2 days, with no success, people I rang had no idea what I was talking about, they didnt know what my level of maths was. The only sort of answer I got was your maths is being reviewed, and might revieve a 2nd round offer. So it doesn't look good....

I also recieved an offer from ANU (Australian National University) in Canberra, for Asian Studies(chinese)/Commerce. It was a bit of a nice surprise, but at the same time unexpected. I had decided a while ago I wasnt going to go to ANU unless I wanted to do Chinese with Commerce, which I sort of decided I didn't want to, but I could do it. So its seriously worth considering because its my Commerce offer at the moment. The only problem is I hadnt considered going there, and dont really have the momey on such short notice to move states just for uni. I roughly need $1000 just to set up accomodation, and $500 for starting fees, I think $2000 to be safe... at the moment I only have $450... but am working, but I will be lucky to have $1000 within the next 2 weeks before I would have to move up to Canberra.

So its a bit of a waiting game again, this time for 2nd round offers, on the 4th and 5th of February, which leaves me very little time to decide and organise where I'm going to uni, thats if I even get any 2nd round offers, because there is no garuntee that you will get a 2nd round offer, because they are the courses that are remaining from 1st round.

So its a very stressful time right now, because nothing is certain at all, I have no idea where I'm going to end up or what I will be studying. Its a juggling act between the 2 uni's... its jsut so frustrating because the universities arent overly helpful if at all. To make things worse today was enrolment day for my visual arts/education course at Monash, but I enroled online so I assumed I didnt have to attend, because it was very hard for me to attend, because it started at 9:30am, and I have to travel 2 hours by train to get there, meaning I would have to leave by 6:30am, and I had finished working at 1am... so it would have killed me. So I rang the faculty today (because yesterday was a public holiday..how convinient) and the person I spoke to wasnt very helpful, saying I should have attended in person, even if I had enroled online... so no help there because there was someone she said I should talk to but she wasnt available at the time. So I don't know whats going to happen... I also checked my ANU accomodation status, apparently I'm being considered for accomodation, and will be made an offer if something becomes available... so thats not helpful

Nothing is going my way in relation to university... which annoys me, because I did really well in high school, and "should" have gotten into anything I applied for easily... and friends who got lower marks have already gotten into their 1st preferences easily...

On a better note, I started working, I have my first job! I started working at Subway 2 days ago, and going through the training, although I'm working late shifts its ok right now, coz I need money incase I have to move to Canberra... tommorow I have to work to 2am, so thats going to be interesting.

Sorry about being really negative but I'm really frustrated with these things...