OUGD402//SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE//WORKSHOP

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT LEEDS:

-woodhouse/IQ isn't the best place to live

-it rains all the time

-a high possibility of being burgled in a student house

-good places for a night out

-what the current second years thought about their first year in Leeds.

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT BEING A STUDENT:

-budgeting your loan is essential

-people won't tidy up after themselves in the kitchen

-washing up is annoying

-dealing with early mornings

-getting ill is easy due to lack of good diet/sleep/looking after yourself etc.

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN:

-graphic designers have no social life

-graphic design is everywhere

-it takes up most of your time

-its competitive

-target audience is important

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT THIS COURSE:

-never time for anything other than graphic design

-NEVER be late

-you will stare at the mac for hours a day

-printing work costs

-first year is not easy

5 THINGS I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT LEEDS:

-friendly

-definitely a difference between northerners and southerners

-you can walk to most places

-the weathers worse up north

-big student environment

5 THINGS I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT BEING A STUDENT:

-budgeting

-getting up early everyday is hard

-better to get work done before the night of the deadline

-cooking can be a bit of a chore 

-some people never take the bins down

5 THINGS I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN:

-how to use Adobe (basic)

-you must be motivated

-its challenging 

-its more than what I thought it was

-its a competitive career

5 THINGS I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT THIS COURSE:

-full timetable

-attendance and punctuality is important 

-heavy work load

-cant get away with slacking

-makes you produce good work

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD DONE THIS YEAR:

-made more of an effort to visit friends back home

-become better at photoshop

-explored leeds more

-saved money: not spent loads off money on pointless stuff that I could of saved for summer

-kept up to date with blogging

5 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HADN'T DONE THIS YEAR:

-let my work load pile up

-kept getting ill because of not looking after myself 

-let the kitchen get so messy

-getting fined for not buying a train ticket

-spent so much money on taxis

5 THINGS YOU HAVE DONE THIS YEAR THAT YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD:

-the amount of work

-sign for a house

-cook a decent meal

-be able to use Illustrator

-have to present work/ideas

5 THINGS YOU HAVE DISLIKED THIS YEAR:

-IQ (my halls)

-being broke most of the time

-not getting nice food cooked for you

-falling behind with the work load 

-design principles

5 THINGS YOU HAVE LOVED THIS YEAR:

-friends 

-Leeds, getting to know a new city

-nights out

-experiencing new things

-achieving/learning so much