Massachusetts College of Art and Design Top Questions

My college experience has made me grow into a more self reliant, inteligent, and artistic person. Not only have I learned countless skills and techniques but I also have learned how to come up with conceptual ideas and express them in various ways. I get inspired every day just walking through the school and seeing the variety of students and artwork. Everyone I have meet has a passion for what they do. I feel as though I have made life long friends at this school because we all share the same passion. I believe that this school is preparing me for my future and pushing me to my limits. For a while I was planning on taking a few years off to work and figure out what next. I am so happy that I chose to go to MassArt instead because I have learned so much the past year and a half that I couldn't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't here at school. Boston has been another amazing plus with going to MassArt. The city is beautiful and only steps away. Day trips always lead to discovering something new.

During my two years at Massachusetts College of Art and Design I have encountered some seriously, soul searching obstacles. Many people have said that the difficulties in life make you stronger. College has taught me something different: The difficulties in life show you the strength you've always possessed. My first year at MassArt was the hardest, but not just because it was the first time living on my own. That year I became a victim of an unplanned pregnancy, my boyfriend was arrested, and I had an abortion. I was destroyed. Trying to make new friends and adjust to college,was difficult. Trying to do do all that and manage what life had thrown my way, was beyond difficult. But I got through all my classes, made some of the best friends I have ever had, and I look forward to my future. My time at MassArt has been invaluable. I have learned that life is by no means easy, and the only way to survive is to “just keep swimming.” I know now, that I have the strength and I always will.

The freedom and the opportunities that I have been given in college have made it so valuable for me to attend. College has given me the opportunity to explore numerous career fields, and to meet students from completely different backgrounds and still find something in common with each other. College has given me the chance to mess up every now and then and to learn something from my mistakes. Although I was a hard worker and a dedicated student throughout all of my schooling, I was often limited by my lack of money, as I lived in a single parent household. For example, I could not attend a middle school trip to Greece because of the cost. However, throughout my college experience, I have been able to earn my own money, gain work experience, and earn additional scholarships that I used towards an amazing study abroad semester spent in Florence, Italy. The most liberating realization that I had in college is the fact that your past can no longer stop you from achieving your goals for the future. College has helped me become the master of my own success.

During my senior year of High School while all my friends were applying to schools and stressing out over essays and such, I was drawing. I have always known I wanted to attend an art school and confident that Massachusetts College of Art would be my future college. My parents have always managed to get my family through difficult times but when it came to sending me to college I could feel the rubber band holding our money together quickly snapping. I have an older sister attending college and with my parents both unemployed the financial situation is only worsening. So for me to atend college is a gift. My college experience has given me a chance to live on my own. Ive had to depend on myself and make difficult choices where had i still been at home i would have depended on my parents. Not only have I been able to create and develop a stonger portfolio but I have been able to work along side of other great artists. The value i take away from my college experience is personal more than anything and i cant wait to show to anyone willing what i am capable of.

Mass Art has been one of the only places for me to truly be myself. I wake up everymorning excited to go to class. In High school I struggled because I was never interested or had tallents in any of the subjects they had to offer. At Mass Art I have teachers who are real artists and who care about giving us young artists the education we need. I feel blessed to be able to express myself through art the way I can at Mass Art. The students at my school I feel I can relate to more than I could with students I went to High School with. We are all creative and appreciate each other's art. We all help each other out and support one another which makes our art stronger. Living in Boston has been great aswell because we are surrounded by so many other colleges that we have the opportunity to make friends from each school.

My college experience has given me more than two hundred words permits me to write. I have been granted the opportunity to better myself and the skills that are required to pursue the career I want to. Because of the superior guidence and challenges the school offers I have grown as an artist and as a person. I am confident to say that when I emerge as a working professional the world will embrace what I have to offer.

I transfered to MassArt after studying one year at URI as a musician. This transition was intimidating and left me with absolutely no idea of what to expect. When accepted, I was required to restart my career as a freshman and take foundation classes. Regardless of my social and financial struggles, I am 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} sure I am in my right place now. MassArt has provided me with excellent facilities and materials to work with, and key technical skills and understanding. I immediately felt a part of the school community and found it easy to connect with people in ways I found important. Above all of this, the faculty at my school has done so much to encourage me to pursue my passion for 3-dimensional art regardless of its frightening "career prospects". The school and community has truly done so much to broaden my perspective of my roll as an individual, artist, and member of society. It probably sounds a bit ethereal, but even now, I am furthering my personal ideology and philosophy of life in a way that relates dirrectly to what I am doing at school. MassArt has helped me uncover and develope an indispensable, life-long passion.

From an education in contemporary art, I have gained insight and validity in what I have desired to do my entire life: challenge people to think about their existence and how to improve it. Through being exposed to current artistic practices and ideas, I found that my yearning was not only legitimate, but in concert with the dialogue of our time. Without this personal renaissance, I would still be captured in the pessimism that art had to function autonomously from human aid or development. In the past two years I have come to realize that thought is humanity's only ascent from a global depression. The Massachusetts College of Art and Design has shown me that "the way things are is not how they have to be", and that art is about conceptual as well as emotional communication. In this respect, I would say that my college experience has provided me with the rest of my life.

Independence is definitely something I value that I have gotten out of my experience. I have learned to be firm and persistent in order to succeed. Additionally, MassArt has introduced me to various facets of art realated careers. I've always known that I would persue a career in the arts and MassArt was able to help me choose one of those many paths.

There are numerous reasons i am grateful for attending MassArt. I am a transfer student and have been making art on my own. It is difficult creating art when one does not have the proper materials and equipment. Since my time at Mass Art I have been introduced to new techniques and have learned a great deal. I also have an abundant amount of room to work freely. Not only have I been learning through my classes but as I earlier mentioned, there are many transfer students. I attended a community college prior to attending MassArt. I found that the wide variety of age groups helped me gain new perspectives and encourage new ideas. The same is happening at MassArt. There is a wide range of ages within my classes which helps me broaden my perspective. Each person comes with a different experience thus effecting the final outcome of one's own experience. Massachusetts College of art has an abundance of resources that includes other facilities in the Fenway area. I look forward to my next semester and I am eager to continue learning and hope to have a diverse classroom like the last to continue to broaden my perspectives.