User:KatieBritton

Bio
My name is Katie Britton and I am a freshman going for my BA in Fashion Marketing. I was born in Cleveland Ohio but spent the majority of my childhood in Bremerton. I recently moved home from Bellingham where I was going to school so I could start at the Art Institute. I love Seattle and once I am out of school I hope to be able to afford to move there permanently. I am really into dirt biking and before I started to work so much I spent almost every weekend at the dunes in Oregon with my family. I now work at Victoria's Secret where I am the Sales Support Lead. The job is cool and I love the company, i'm hoping to get an internship with them in the winter which I think I have a pretty good shot at (keep your fingers crossed).

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic - I have always wanted to learn to surf!


 * Research Component - I am going to research famous surfers, fun and scary surfing stories and the basic do's and don'ts of surfing.


 * week 1 - Start doing research, getting a rough draft started as soon as possible.


 * week 2 - Continue with the research and start looking at the best places to learn to surf.


 * week 3 - Get the rough draft going and have people start to look it over.


 * week 4 - Make any changes that are needed to my research paper.


 * week 5 - Final draft is done, except for the actual surfing part.


 * week 6 - Surfing in Hawaii!


 * week 7 - More surfing, make sure pictures are taken and that I have everything I need.


 * week 8 - get presentation together and be prepared to share with the class.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
Finding a sculpture to hate was actually much harder to do than I thought it would be. I am not very knowledgeable in art and have never really taken much time to really look at any sculptures, so when I first entered the park I really tried to look at them closely. When I was checking them out I always thought of what I liked about them but nothing really came to mind about what I disliked. While walking around, there was one sculpture that seemed to always be in my sight but I just didn’t really care for it. Finally I decided to go check it out. It was called “Eagle.” Eagle was huge, red and to be quite honest didn’t really look like an eagle at all. I tried from all angles but couldn’t see it; this was definitely the sculpture I hated. I looked up some information on Alexander Calder, the man who made it, and he seemed to have a very interesting life but it didn’t make me like the sculpture any more than I already did. I went to the park again later in the week to look at it some more but still I found nothing I liked about it, I saw no eagle and it was just too uninteresting to me. The one thing it made me think of was The Little Mermaid movie. It looked like the flowers she gets under the ocean and puts in her hair. This made me like it a little more but I still don’t really care for the sculpture. Nothing against art or the creator but there is nothing I can do to get myself to like this piece of art. I guess the “Eagle” and I were not meant to be. It doesn’t really bother me to see it as I pass it but Eagel would never be something I would point out to a friend as something I really enjoyed viewing.

Self-Assessment
I have never taken a general education class before so I didn’t really know what to expect. The one thing I really took from the class was how many resources I have available to me. It was nice that as a teacher you took a lot of time to make sure we knew exactly what was available to us, even things that were not school related which was also really helpful. I think my participation in the class was okay, I enjoyed the discussions and sometimes would take place but I am a little shy and sometimes just let others take the floor. That would probably be the one thing I would really try to work on is speaking out in class more. The class didn’t really make me feel more prepared than I was for my other classes but I think that’s most likely since I have already been in college for three years so I am fairly prepared for classes from past experiences. This is only the second class I have taken at the Art Institute so I am hoping that the class prepared me for what the other classes are like here. I guess I won’t really find out until next quarter though. All in all I enjoyed the class and definitely feel like I got some really useful information from it.