As a college super-senior, I come back here and look at what my high school senior self once wrote, and have not the heart to delete it all.
"I'm a 17 year old girl and I'm smart :) I like reading comic books and novels, unfortunately I don't read much during the school year, nor do I have much money to spend on comic books. For the most part I read manga, but I really like Fables, it's a great series and hopefully this summer I'll catch up on it. I'm a CG colorist and I've been working on my real-media inking and coloring, and some drawing too, I guess. In school I like German, Japanese, and my science classes. I play rugby."
Somethings have changed, other's haven't. I've obviously moved on from being 17, I suppose I'm smart enough. Some still praise my intelligence, but I take that mostly for flattery these days... there are plenty smarter than me and probably many dumber than or equal to me who use their intellect better. I still don't make too much time or money, but I have discovered that my university's library has a sizable comic book/graphic novel collection. As I write this I'm working through the second Sandman omnibus. I've moved away from manga, for the most part, because I'm pretentious and it's too popular or childish or I'm just too good for it, or something. Maybe I just don't have a good source. I don't really draw much anymore, never really color. I'm an International Studies and Biological and Agricultural Engineering double major, so I guess the scholastic interests haven't changed much... I've taken all the German and Japanese my school can offer and have been to both languages' homelands. Maybe I'll play rugby again someday, who knows.
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