Fall and Friends and Colleges

I recently had the opportunity to play around with a Canon 60D, which was AWESOME. (I'll explain the circumstances in a minute.) Seriously, I kinda want one... Oh well. Maybe someday. I was able to take somewhere around 20 pictures with it, so I'll post some here over the next couple days.

As to the circumstances of how such an amazing piece of machinery fell into my hands, I went on my FIRST COLLEGE VISIT. This just got real, folks.

I went to visit Valley Forge Christian College, which happens to be the school my best friend (EVER) goes to. (Hi, MRJ!) The event was called Breakaway (no idea why, though), a 24 hour stay on campus. I got to stay with MRJ overnight and visit a few of her classes the next day. I went to some by myself though. Which was incredibly nerve-wracking to this particular introvert. But I did enjoy it, all the same. :)

One of the classes I sat in on was Intro to Video Production, which I found very interesting. The class was working on group projects, so the professor mostly focused on answering Breakaway-er's questions about the Digital Media Studies program. He explained that there were several different branches of the studies program, one of them being Photography. =D He asked who might be interested in what majors, but when he got to Photography I was the only one who raised my hand... *awkward*. So much for blending in in my little corner at the back of the room... haha.

Anyways, after classes were done MRJ and I headed back to her dorm so she could pack (and spend the weekend with us!! =D), but before that... we headed to the Dig. Media Center and rented a Canon 60D for an hour.

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While she packed some things to take to my house, I ran around campus like a crazy person taking pictures of anything and everything. I had a very limited amount of time though, since mom was itching to leave (she had things to do for co-op classes on Monday), and we had to get the pictures off of the camera and the camera back to where it belonged.

I have yet to schedule more college visits, but I am planning on visiting more. Milligan College, Taylor University, and John Brown University are pretty high on the list. I'm mainly looking for a school that offers both a good science and art program so I can have a good range of majors to choose from. For that reason, I'm not really considering Valley Forge as a serious option, because they don't really have any science majors (like chem) that I'd be interested in. It's mostly a digital media school, from what I observed.

Anyway.

I have college on the brain.

Scary thoughts.