College/Art Students
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- mg33
Does anyone else have complete disdain for college youth, and specifically grungy art school students when you see them in public just openly espousing on some nonsensical point of view like it's the biggest, most perfectly thought out thing they will ever say, and they do it with so much gusto to be just-ever-so-accurate in making anyone within ear shot think they are some kind of mad genius? But you know that under that facade it's all just crap for the sake of saying anything at all?
I was on the subway on my way home today and some kid, probably 19 or 20, starts telling the girl he's with (and i hear this as the train is slowing down to a station):
"Graphic Design is Satan. Aaannnddd, Adversing is Satan."
and then it got a little louder but I can tell he's completely trying to be the most brief but intellectual guy in the world, just in the way he's gesturing and carrying on.
I guess it's no different really from some law school students that are so full of shit and themselves. I just really wanted to strike up a conversation with this kid and really get some reasons why he said that, some kind of conviction he'd pound his chest for, rather than the impression that he was saying whatever would impress this chick that looked like a Cobra Snake photo tossed into the garbage.
Anyhow, is this what we do as we grow up and enter our 30s? Is this when we become old, adults, when we just shake our heads and say "Kids today?" Because we all did the same thing - I can step back and realize that of course. :)
- ismith0
Everyone is full of shit.
- ukit0
I hate art students, probably more than anyone. Self-obsessed little twats.
- amongthemasses0
You need to join this cause immediately, you're too boring to be a designer.
- canuck0
Once they graduate and look for a job reality sets in.
- mg330
Man, thanks. I thought I was going to come off as an asshole, but canuck and ukit, you took the words out of my mouth that I was holding back.
- scarabin_net0
so talk to him next time like you said you wanted to
maybe embarrassing him in front of his girl will make you feel better and illuminate him somewhat
- dog_opus0
Come on, guys, they're kids. You're a rare specimen if you weren't a self-involved, and sometimes (maybe lots of the time) idiotic, irrational kid at that age. I teach these kids, and I like them. They're just starting out, finding their way, and many of them are talented. Adulthood takes practice.
By the way, the "adult" part of neurology (namely, the prefrontal lobes concerned with logic, ethics, responsibility, etc.) isn't properly/fully wired until between the ages of 25-30. As for the rest of the adult imbeciles beyond that age, I have no explanation.
- marychain0
realize all young people think they have it figured out...they'll look back and be embarrassed.
Just let it go man.
- scarabin_net0
i hope i don't get all bitter as i age
- MrOneHundred0
At that age, it was probably enough to get her into the sack for some faux-existential teen sex. lucky bastard.
- ukit0
True, we should probably cut the kid a break. That "Graphic Design is Satan" line probably got him a BJ that night.
- I'm gonna try it...ismith
- You can work it, ismith. Embellish it: "Man, I know from being on the inside – graphic design is Satan, girl."dog_opus
- I like it, keep these ideas coming...ismith
- Graphic design is Satan and I don’t think I should be alone tonight.MrOneHundred
- colin_s0
i honestly hope attitudes like that never die, even as they "grow up." what the fuck's so fun about adopting the system, anyway? advertising is to blame for a lot of the woes we see in the subtexts of social interactions and displaced issues of envy. graphic design will always be great, but advertising will always be evil. hopefully that kid grows up to try and do quality work for worthwhile people.
- mg330
Man I hope not. The girl he was with was... actually maybe you're right ukit. At that age mouth sex is mouth sex, all's good for the gettin'
- mg330
btw, the letdown of that occurrence on the subway was more than made up for while I was in Guitar Center, when one guy said to his friend as they were walking behind me:
Friend 1: "Man I saw a great fail today."
Friend 2: "An epic fail?"
Friend 1: "Yeah, it was awesome."
Friend 2: "Cool, send it to me."With NO description of what it was at all. That was the best part.
- ukit0
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
- SigDesign0
so, none of you guys went to art school?
- ********0
i did, i cut of mickey mouse's head and staked it on polls when Disney came in to campus for recruiting. they never came back .
- good work!SigDesign
- i hung condoms full of meat from the trees on my campus
no particular reasonscarabin_net
- ********0
that lead to the end of the animation department in that school