Hi. Keeping this super short.
It has recently (within the hour) come to my attention that there has been a scathing (lol?) article written somewhere in the internet aether about UCLA's TFT department and their supposedly deteriorating performance in the last few years, even before xxxxx-19. This article also included an odd emphasis on the program and faculty's supposed "neglect".
Let me first just say, if anyone feels very influenced by this 2nd/3rd hand account of student experience. Here's my 1st-hand experience thus far, having unfortunately been virtually in this program for most of the - um - program.
Just... hey. Yeah. My hopes for "filmschool" have been exceeded thus far. It was a lil rocky at the beginning of #@%$*-19, but that's more a "world-ending" thing than a program/faculty thing in my opinion. So there you go, (yet) another side of the story.
That article just made me really sad because of how much effort, energy, and heart the faculty seem to have put in, trying to make the best of the world's current situation.
Note to self: I guess this is what happens when you don't have social media, you just kind of ramble on forums you used to visit obsessively.
Second note to self: Truly, stop rambling. Get back to work writing.
Third note to se-- : no, that's enough
EDIT: unaware, as I did not dig that deeply into the article, that there were, I apologize, first-hand accounts. This was just supposed to be a short post about my experience, and my confusion. My whole post is 10000% subjective, never meant it not to be.
I only have my own experiences to go off of, so that's the only part I really had any say in. Apologies if that wasn't apparent.
It has recently (within the hour) come to my attention that there has been a scathing (lol?) article written somewhere in the internet aether about UCLA's TFT department and their supposedly deteriorating performance in the last few years, even before xxxxx-19. This article also included an odd emphasis on the program and faculty's supposed "neglect".
Let me first just say, if anyone feels very influenced by this 2nd/3rd hand account of student experience. Here's my 1st-hand experience thus far, having unfortunately been virtually in this program for most of the - um - program.
Just... hey. Yeah. My hopes for "filmschool" have been exceeded thus far. It was a lil rocky at the beginning of #@%$*-19, but that's more a "world-ending" thing than a program/faculty thing in my opinion. So there you go, (yet) another side of the story.
That article just made me really sad because of how much effort, energy, and heart the faculty seem to have put in, trying to make the best of the world's current situation.
Note to self: I guess this is what happens when you don't have social media, you just kind of ramble on forums you used to visit obsessively.
Second note to self: Truly, stop rambling. Get back to work writing.
Third note to se-- : no, that's enough
EDIT: unaware, as I did not dig that deeply into the article, that there were, I apologize, first-hand accounts. This was just supposed to be a short post about my experience, and my confusion. My whole post is 10000% subjective, never meant it not to be.
I only have my own experiences to go off of, so that's the only part I really had any say in. Apologies if that wasn't apparent.
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