So I finally passed my Study abroad application in!!!! Yay!!!! I'll hear back in a couple of weeks whether we got in the program or not and I'm so excited! I really hope I get it, going abroad to London would be an incredible experience. Actually I had a really good experience with the design department yesterday that I thought you all might want to hear about. So, I was trying to finish my portfolio last minute, irresponsible I know, and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't exporting from indesign to a pdf file! I had never used indesign before, which might have been part of the problem, but even still I was really starting to worry that I wouldn't get it finished in the proper format. I had scheduled a meeting with the Chair of the Design department earlier that week to go over my portfolio to make sure that I had everything correct before I submitted it, unfortunately I had to go to the meeting without it being finished. Well, even though she had warned me ahead of time that she couldn't meet for a long time, during the meeting she spent twenty minutes trying to help me figure out my portfolio format. Then, after that was unsuccessful, she tracked down the computer professor and went with me to help me fix it! Through the whole process, not only did I get my portfolio finished, I also learned a lot more about indesign. I was so thankful that she took the time to really help me. In a school as big as Syracuse it really is unique that the chairperson of the entire design department would spend so much time out of her busy day to help a student with a simple computer issue. It really was impressive. In fact after the meeting she followed up with me to ask if I thought a computer seminar would be beneficial to not only me but my entire class. This was a great experience working with the design administration and really is such a benefit to coming to VPA, students on average feel like they get a significant amount of individualized attention. Well I hope you are all doing well! Talk to you next week!