Before leaving for St. Martin, I was actually very nervous. First, I think it is difficult to study in graduate school, let alone study abroad. The second is that the people in St. Martin in my mind are strange and strange, and they feel that they will not get along well.
But my parents told me that the grades don't matter, you should go and play. Then I literally "played" with those cute and loving classmates in St. Martin for two years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" >01 The study life of Saint-Martin is not so serious</h1>
In St. Martin, many things are learned while playing, such as the teacher will organize some small games, and the one I remember most is playing with yarn.
The teacher will take a thread group and randomly hand it to a classmate, and then the person holding the thread group needs to say a few keywords of his project, such as: psychology, narrative..., then if someone's keyword overlaps with you, you can throw the yarn ball in your hand to the other party, and so on.
Do you want to come to St. Martin to play with yarn
The whole class is not only very lively without the rigidity and restraint of the class, but also finds the overlap of each other's themes between classmates. The ball of yarn is getting smaller and smaller, but the intersection between classmates is more and more, which can especially intuitively present the results of our discussion.
Seemingly unrelated themes find contact at the intersection of the hairs. The teacher will also group the students according to the results of this game, and will save a lot of unnecessary time when creating in the later stage.
Final rough grouping
In addition, the students will privately organize many small activities, such as going to the museum together, watching exhibitions together, going to the nearby park to see the queen's swans and so on. Of course, it's more about getting together to do disc action.
compact disc
During the dinner, the classmates will not chase you to ask where the project is going, where the previous homework encountered problems with Barabala. Instead, they will share their recent observations, what interesting things they have encountered, and which nova designer's work they have seen.
Although there is no particularly advanced academic discussion, in fact, in the process of playing haha, we will still learn a lot of topics and new trends in the industry. Pizza is eaten in the stomach, and the information is also in the brain.
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The most impressive thing was a work from a pure art major, which was seen in the corridor of the teaching building. As if it were a team work, they built a very simple small space with all kinds of ... Swearing.
It could be complaining about life, the weather, or someone around you. There are all kinds of languages in it, as if they don't care whether the audience can understand it, but more of a work that expresses their feelings, and uses their emotions to influence the viewer, rather than language.
Maybe that's what St. Martin himself looks like, happy to create a completely different way of communicating.
St. Martin surprised Li Yunlong
In addition to the students, the school is actually messing around, such as ↓
Oh, in the toilet
This was an event that had been held before, and then there was this one, and if you look closely, it is not difficult to see that they wrote ual as nal. If you want to say that he has any deep meaning in this, in fact, there is no real, because the event is called Neoliberal Arts London, which is abbreviated as nal.
But what's interesting is that it happens to resemble the shorthand of lunyi, and the activity itself is neoliberal. In the eyes of ordinary people, this may not be a design at all, and even a little flattering. But in fact, there are many small ideas like Lunyi, because fun and cleverness are the more important things in their minds.
There is also a matching roll of paper, hahaha
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="106" >03 From playing crazy in Europe to hiding at home</h1>
In my first year at St. Martin, my friends and I would hang out in the spare time, and I remember going to Gay Pride once when I first wanted to join in the fun, but I didn't expect to be moved in the end. When we can't do our homework, we simply throw away our homework and go to the museum to wash our eyes and change our brains.
During the little long holiday, we will go further afield. Most of the time, our team will go to a country together, like to see the exhibition to see the exhibition, like food to visit the store, like to shop to buy and buy. After the collection, I shared what fun things I saw on this trip, and it felt like I was alone to experience various activities, and at the same time, I accumulated a lot of material for my subsequent creations.
Italy - Castelrotto – The first rays of the morning sun
Finland - Rovaniemi – Snow Adventure
Punch in the world's northernmost McDonald's
Realistic version of Monument Valley
In the second year of research, the epidemic broke out. At that time, I also discussed with my family for a long time and decided to stay in the UK. It was a bit of a panic at first, but it didn't last long. The main thing is to have a good roommate, as well as to care about their family, friends and the motherland.
The health kit received at that time
After Easter, we received messages from online classes, which went from face-to-face discussions to screen-to-screen discussions. One thing to say, for students who have no self-confidence and social fear, online classes are really a good thing.
When taking online lessons
First of all, online lessons can be recorded, and you can repeatedly watch them after class. For students who are not good at language and are afraid that they will not be able to keep up, online classes really reduce their learning pressure to a large extent. And when reporting, there is no need to stand in front of a room full of people, and the tension level plummets.
Report before the online lesson
In addition, if you are in the UK, you can still continue to use studio in school, and you can also go out to do field research during unblocked periods. The school also took into account that some students could not go to school, and also worked overtime to build an online database and library.
The British side of the Internet called digital teaching, in fact, it may be a major trend after many years, after all, the era of Internet of Everything has come.
Now that The Uk has reached the third step of unsealing, it should not be very far from the fourth step and the last step. On June 3, the UK government also published the latest vaccination information on the portal, and more than half of adults in the UK have completed 2 doses of vaccination.
Image source: gov.uk
Lunyi is also gradually opening the school door, and began to prepare for the restoration of more offline resources such as the library, welcoming new students to join.
Source: Lunyi official website
At the same time, in order to reduce the impact of the epidemic on the employment of students, Lunyi has also expanded the scope of support and counseling in employment this year. Students who complete their studies this summer will also be offered at least two weeks to intern and experience in the company.
In short, although we can't say that the epidemic has no impact on art study abroad, it is clear that many colleges and universities, including my lunyi, are using various resources to help students who are currently studying and graduating, and have also invested energy in vaccines, new crown testing, online and offline combined teaching, etc. to ensure that new students can enroll normally.
So you don't have to worry too much, you have already got an offer to study well, and you are still preparing to apply for a good creation portfolio, just put your heart in your stomach.
In the end, the two years at St. Martin have changed a lot, I have become more open and more willing to communicate with people. More importantly, I learned to learn in addition to memorizing with my brain, which is to see with my eyes.
Art is not outside the number of words nor materialized, there is no standard answer, so the learning method suitable for art students is to learn how to communicate with people through play, how to create works that can communicate with people, that's all.
If you also want to go to St. Martin or have more questions about art study abroad & portfolios, you can ask Mr. Kang again.