I got the internship! Yay me. The interview went pretty well. The interviewer was Paula, an art director at the company. She was a very friendly lady. We chatted a bit, and then she looked at my work that I had prepared on a CD. Then she took me around the office, showing giving me a tour of the building and introducing me to the people I’d be working with. A few of the people were like, “Oh, another intern. . .” as they rubbed their hands together and laughed maniacally. I was like they were saying, “Ooh, less grunt work that I have to do. . . Muahahahaha!”

I must say that I loved the office. The building was an old house, not quite old enough to be a historic home though. It was brick on the outside, with a fountain in front. I just really liked the layout of the place. I’m so excited. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get many pictures or what, but I’ll try. I’m really excited to finally be getting some experience in the Graphic Design field.

I don’t want to gush to much. I’m just really happy. I’m not even getting paid for this, but I so do not care. I’m getting school credit, so that’s fine with me. I definitely have stars in my eyes at the moment, I must admit.

Also, I had my sister take some photos of me before I left for the interview.

See those big dangly things hanging from my ears? My I went shopping for something to wear to the interview, and my little sister made me get them. The did look nice, but I never got used to the jingling sound they made every time I turned my head.

I have an interview for an intership position at a local design company at ten thirty in the morning, and I can’t get to sleep.

I bought some new clothes to wear, and my little sister made me buy these earrings that do happen to look very nice. I’ll try to remember to take a pic of myself before I leave for the interview.

I’ve been tweaking my resume, and I’ve still got to prepare some samples of my work to show. . .

I’m too wired to sleep. Maybe I’ll read some fanfiction to calm my nerves. . .

For the first few sessions of my Senior Portfolio class, the instructor will go through our work and tell us what we should keep, change, and do new. Looking through all my work last night, I was greatly discouraged by what I perceive to be the substandard quality of my work. I mean, while I was doing it, I thought it was really good. However, there were a lot of things about the work that I knew then I should probably fix, but I told myself I’d just redo it at a later date.

Now it seems I have all this work that needs fixing. I’m sure it’s not as bad as I think, because I made A’s and B’s on most of my projects, but looking at it now it seems so sophomoric and unrealized. I’m almost embarrassed to show it. The one thing I am proud of though, are the illustrations that I did for projects.

I guess I’m just really afraid of what the professor will say. He’s been doing graphic design and illustration for a very long time, so he really knows a lot about the subject. I’ve always felt that though I have great rendering abilities as far as drawing, that I didn’t really measure up as a graphic designer. I just don’t feel like I’m that creative. I’m probably being too hard on myself. It’s getting to be crunch time as far as school is concerned, and soon I’ll be out in the job market. The whole purpose of the class is too improve one’s portfolio, so I guess I don’t really have that much to worry about.

I just hope I don’t get too harsh of a critique.

Today was my first day of classes for the Spring semester. I still had classes yet to register for, and I’m in the process of finally acquiring an intership so I can get some much-needed experience in the graphic design field. It won’t be paid, but I’ll get credit. . .and the aforementioned experience. There’s also a possibility of getting hooked up with another design-related job either at the campus newspaper of this sign shop that my friend used work at.

I’m taking Senior Portfolio this semester, which means that I’m going to almost definitely have to redo all of my design projects that are worth anything. It’s going to be a lot of hard work. I’ve never had the instructor before either, but he’s very wisened and has lots of experience—

Ooh, this song called “Tear You Apart” by She Wants Revenge just came on. I got it as a free download from iTunes, and I love this song. They sound like a cross between Cake and The Killers, except a bit darker.

Anway, as I was saying. . . I have a lot of work to do this semester. Actually, I have a lot of work to do every semester, and then I end up slacking off at the end and struggling to get my final projects done on time.

. . .Yeah. But it was good to see all my classmates again. Everyone looks totally refreshed in contrast to how they looked at the end of last semester: all strung out and caffeined up with lots of sleep deprevation thrown in. Good times I tell ya. Good times.