Day 3

Schools kill creativity. <-- I know it's kind of long but watch it! 


..... If you know me, you know I am a Mass Communications student at VCU concentrating on Creative Advertising. When I first signed up I thought the classes would be like all of the other classes I have taken. You come to class, sit, listen to your teacher talk for hours, take some test and be done. But boy was I in for a surprise. 


One of my very first Mass Communication classes at VCU was a class called Curiousness. Now obviously I was very "curious" about what the hell this class was even going to be about, who signs up for classes called Curiousness, Story, Imagination??? VCU creative advertising students do and it is AWESOME. but anyways, in this class I didn't know what to expect but the information I gained from this class I will keep with me forever. This class made me get out of my comfort zone, it taught me more about myself, my creative side, or lack there of, and how to really just enjoy school again. It showed me how to bring out the kid in me and have fun. To not be afraid to take chances and to just let loose. We were given these projects every class and you had a week to work on them, it wasn't a class where you go home read the textbook and come back to class to talk about it it was a class where we had projects such as making a soap box to stand on and read a poem about your greatest fear, or think of two emotions then combine them and make something that resembles the new emotion. We had to do things that I would have never done and didn't even think I was able to do. What I am trying to get at is, where did are our inner child go to? Why do we feel the need to color in the lines. Why color the grass green and the clouds blue. Why not make it your own. What happened to our imagination?! 


The other day I was with the kids I nanny and I just picked Ben and his friend up from school and he had collected rocks from school and he got in my car and I asked why he had rocks and told me, they are not rocks, they're crystals.... Now that's what I am talking about, he has an imagination still and I hope he never loses it! In this same car trip he asked me to put on a song just so he could hear one part. It was a part in the song that said "super mario" and so I played it for him and he was quiet the whole song and all of a sudden that part came on and his face lit up so big and he just started laughing and was so happy about it (if you meet Ben you will find out he is in LOVE with super mario bros) but besides that, seeing him light up over something so small made me smile. It's the little things in life that matter, the tiny little things that can make you smile and laugh are the things that matter.


Being with these kids has been an amazing time. They have taught me so much about myself and how to use my imagination again. Go out and buy a coloring book and color, don't worry about staying in the lines and just make it your own! Play a board game, explore in a park, be a kid and enjoy it. In every Mass Communication class I have been in every teacher tells us the same thing: "Get out of your comfort zone. Do things that make you feel uncomfortable. Get lost and learn something about yourself." and that is my advice to you. You will learn so much about yourself and really just enjoy the things around you and your life so much more. Volunteer somewhere, get lost, if you always drive home the same way, take a different way. Explore the world and have fun doing it! <3


Quote: " To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."