Design Schools
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haha! good memory, I think I know you are too.
Some things are good the facilities are quite good, 24 hour access to computer labs and letterpress, and that stuff I enjoy. There are some good profs ex; David Cabianca, highly educated, honest, v. helpful, up to date with the industry and I also like him because he has the most kick ass design book collection I have ever seen and exposes students to lots of stuff they have probably never seen -including some really rare letterpressed books, one of Irma Boom's books that they only made something like 200 of which she won the Gutenberg "best designed book" award for, and Mode En Module to name a few). There are of course also some really poor profs, the type that wont even take 2 minutes to leave a comment on your final. It's kind of a slap in the face after you do all the work, pay the tuition, and you can't even get some feedback in the end :-/
Also the projects are really restricting, and I think thats necessary to some extent, but some times it really cramps your creativity, thus far there is not many projects that are really open ended where they push your creativity, or to produce some less conventional stuff (which I think essentially is one of the most important aspects of a design school). In the end you endup taking projects in your own direction and getting crappy marks or spending little time on them.
I actually was hoping to go on an exchange to Germany next year to get something different, and after weeks and weeks of going through a lengthy application process the design department canned the exchange. Shitty, I was thinking about Nova Scotia CAD but they don't have a direct entry into graphic design anymore and it is too late to apply to OCAD.