Senior Project

I may actually be going crazy...

Day 7: I am thankful for senior project. {call me crazy}

For those of you who may not know, my school requires seniors to do a year long project in which we learn a new skill. I chose to do photography. My mentor/teacher is John Pyle. I really just think he's the greatest. He has been extremely patient in teaching me and he's really just a nice, hilarious person in general.

I mean, don't get me wrong about this whole senior project thing. I freak about it just as much as the next person (probably more because I'm slightly OCD and I don't stay up late to work on things). In fact, I had a little bit of a melt down on the way to school the other day just thinking about everything that I had to do to prepare for my Phase 2 presentation [there are four phases].

Despite all of that, I LOVE MY PROJECT.

I haven't made a list in a few days, so here is a list of reasons why I love photography and my senior project.

• I get to meet all sorts of new people. Everyone I've met has been incredibly nice and generally pretty funny.
• It's interesting. I just like learning new things. Sometimes, it takes me a while to catch on to all this photography stuff. It's a lot harder than you would think. John tells me the same thing over and over again, I usually don't understand until about the 589579340th time he says it. {I think I'm finally beginning to get it, though-- YAY}
• Sometimes, I get to be behind the camera. I'm always ready for a picture.
• I feel kind of artsy. It's a new feeling. Sometimes I'm a little uncomfortable and unsure of what I should do, but I'm definitely becoming more confident.
• Confidence. (see the above two posts)
• Actually doing the project is pretty easy. Like getting hours is easy enough because all I have to do is show up on a photoshoot. Those usually last a few hours so I'm good to go. (we have to work on our projects for a total of 100 hours)
• It's probably going to be a pretty useful skill in life.
• it's fun and i like it and YEAH!

So, I may be one of the few people who actually love my senior project. I could definitely answer questions and talk about it for dayyyyys. (but I won't because that's annoying)

For those of you wondering, I got a 100 on my presentation. Go Jessie! 
That grade pretty much kick started a great day. 
A few notes on things that made my day great: I got a packet of M&Ms for getting all As. I didn't really do any work. The Blue Door picked out several outfits for me to try on and get for my photo shoot next week. I called my grandmother. I got to talk to my friends (whom I miss and never get to see). I went to a surprise party (that turned out to be not much of a surprise). I had some cake. I paid my deposit to Auburn.

Today was a success. Senior project is a success.