Dear Fucking Everyone,
“I’m getting a BFA” is not code for “I’m blindly following my passion” or “I think I’m going to be rolling in money after I get this degree!” or “Once I get out of college, I’ve got it made.”
If you don’t know me, show me some kindness and do not pretend to. I do not need you to inform me about MY major. I am personally getting into thousands of dollars worth of debt. I am personally going to spend the next few years of my life doing my damnedest to get the best out of the program I’m a part of by both honing my skills and networking. I am talking to and being mentored by people in the field of work that I desire to be apart of so that I will be better prepared to make the most of this degree while I am seeking to obtain it and once university is behind me.
I know there are other paths. This is the one I have chosen. Do not presume to know more about it than I do, because quite frankly this is my fucking passion and for you to think that I need to be better informed, as if I was helpless, ignorant, and pitifully doomed until you walked into the picture, is fucking insulting on several different levels.
P.S.
I’m not trying to say that I know everything, but please don’t assume I know nothing. If you want to be sure that I’m aware of something, go into it assuming that I MIGHT already know it and not assuming that you are a gift from some almighty force to bestow enlightenment upon me.
