I've been officially acepted into the Graphic Design program at my school. At first at the beggining of the first semester I thought I was getting into an easy major thinking, "yey I get to draw stuff and touch up stuff with photoshop."
Wrong.. wrong.
It deals with typography, everything that is considered print media, process manuals,logo design, movie sequences, and lots of research(more than you would think in order to start sketching an idea.
They only accept 60 people a year (not a semester, the entire year). Where a pannel of judges look at your created process manual, the inventory in creating that manual, a few drawings, and a few photos, and two symbols. At one point I thought I wasn't going to make it, I was going to go back into accounting (something that was way less stressful but boring) but didn't and I'm glad I stuck with it.
Now the bad thing about this major is that you have to invest money on a lot of programs and materials (last semester I spent $60-70 in paper and threw out 70% of it because of misprinting/incorrect measuring). At the meeting for people who were accepted they told us that it will be physically and mentally impossible to work more than 20 hours because of how much work they will pile on us. They told us we'll need to adjust our lives and for some of us thats impossible because they need to support themselves. Another thing was that if we fail (C-) one class (since the classes they pick for us in the program are connected) we fail out for the entire year and have to wait until next year in order to progress in the program.
