Monday, January 18, 2010

Inventing the University

I never thought of writing as a writer-based and reader-based prose. Obviously our languages change when we talk to a friend compared to a physics professor and even your parents.

My major is graphic design and this community differs enormously from other majors because it is purely subjective. Chemistry, physics, biology, calculus, all have one right answer for a problem. Graphic design can have multiple solutions to a design problem and that is where it can become frustrating. You may think your design is perfect and feel like it's the best one in the class... until the teacher says otherwise. The teacher validates your design with good reasons to help improve it, which you agree with grudgingly, but that's how you learn most effectively.