This is my first semester in to City Tech. I am a Mexican-American who decided to major in Communication Design. My first thoughts about the transitions from high school to college wasn’t so bad, I thought it won’t be any different since I was able to communication with others and rely on those who can help on something I needed that includes even the professors. But the semester did in fact go really fast and I can honestly say I did learn a variety of things in every single of my classes. College is a lot different from what I thought it would be even though it did remind me of high school but in a different environment that’s not the same. Classes were structure a lot different of course which made it a challenge to make some socializing since some were more advanced on what they have learned.
In my English course I have thought that it wasn’t as a challenge but rather somewhat easy to me. Although we didn’t really write essays, I got to learn that a writer must always be really detailed with their piece because it would really help the reader to understand the format of what the piece is really about or what they are really trying to interpret. A writer must never leave important details out because it will leave their reader lost or even left with questions that they will never get to be answer by the publisher. Every small detail has it’s own purpose to support and back up the statement on the writer’s book, article, or a piece of their own creation. As for doing glossaries, I thought it was a good idea to keep a look out for words I didn’t know and go back and search them up on my free time to get a better understanding on what they really meant in details. But to keep up with a lot of new words it can be hard to remember for me since I learn a bit slower when it comes to learning new formats of including in my writings. When trying to use them myself I may forget how to really format it to make sense for others to read or understand what I’m trying to convey.
As a writer, I have become impressed with what I have been able to create and explain what I have explored on trips we have gone to or even with new topics like the juxtaposition. Although for project #3 I had to be switch the image and locations of what I wanted to talk about and which it would be explained to be my juxtaposition. I was more or less lost at the beginning but I managed to do it regardless of my hard struggle I was in. As a design student I learn a lot of how to start of with shapes and doodles instead of going ahead and do our own thing by just seeing a references. Because in my foundation drawing I learned that to make our work look really good you must start from mere scratch and make it a lot better as you go so, when coming to a finish it will be perfected the way you were instructed from what you intended previously thought of doing. As for my type and media class we had to learn to create grids and guidelines to have a starter on where are piece would be placed and what can we do to create a negative space on our work to make it stand out. Other than just using indesign, we explored with photoshop and even illustrator to make different creations of our own from scratch as well.
Overall, I think that my first semester in college has been really fun and a very new welcoming community where I been welcomed with a lot to know about. With everything I get to learn for the next 1 year and half I’ll want to be able to do advertising as my future career. I’ll continue to explore more to do the best of my ability to make my work stand out in companies or for my own creations.
