monday,may 10,2004
graduation
the university daily kansan 11B
TOBIAS: He chose University instead of the other one 'to the west'
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because I'm an architecture major I use speed to stay awake for my projects, but that is completely false.
Another thing that blows my mind is how some classes revolve around the final. Just another way of proving that school doesn't prepare you for college ...
MAY 2004
MAY 2004 Update: Brandon Tobias is in the fourth year of a five year architecture program.
How can I possibly sum up the last four years worth of experiences in a single journal entry? 1
don't expect everyone to understand everything that's included, but that's what college is all about inside jokes and crazy stuff that only you and your friends get. The basics:
Thanks to architecture being a five year program (nope, never changed majors) I won't graduate until next year. I'll also be returning to Pearson Scholarship Hall for my fifth year (sure an apartment would have been nice in some regards, but I really don't think I could see myself anywhere else but hanging out with an amazing group of guys that have all become brothers to a guy that doesn't have one). Still working on campus but I'm now in the
wood shop in Marvin Hall, so I'm literally there all the time. Not making trips to Manhattan anymore, but I've recently discovered that the Big 12 Conference does matter. Any free time that I have is spent playing basketball at the Rec Center, hanging out at B-Dub's or the Red Lyon or watching *The Last Samurai*.
Nowhere like the University:
Nowhere like the funny (or scary) to think that I actually considered going to school at that university to the west. I said "considered" — not "wanted." I mean, I'm sure Kansas State rocks, and by "rocks" I mean "sucks," but the point is that this is it. The University is home — where I'm supposed to be. I can't hear nearly 50,000 people sing our alma mater before kicking the hell out of Mizzou with out getting that goofy feeling in my stomach.
goody teenage life. I've become involved in the University of Kansas Ambassadors (yeah, I walk backwards) as well as tours of Marvin Hall. I'm active in my scholarship hall and the All Scholarship Hall Council. I volunteer at the University of Kansas relays as well as Relay for Life.
In some small way I hope these activities can give at least some part of what I've experienced back to the University.
-Edited by Joe Hartigan
JUDILLA: Art student didn't let others' opinions change her
NOVEMBER 2009
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NOVEMBER 2015
I've been making decent grades here, but I haven't fully applied myself to my studies. I seem to be so carefree with things.
Being late to class isn't a big deal anymore. Doing homework is optional, and people's opinions of me matter less and less. I think the reason I'm not stressed out lies mostly in the fact that I don't care about a lot of things. I'm making all B's, so it's not like there's an urgency to improve my grades. Maybe Thanksgiving Break will give me back my drive
DECEMBER2000
Thanksgiving break was perfect. I didn't realize how much I had missed my high school
friends until I saw them again. My friend's father died the week before break, so a whole group of us drove down to go to the rosary. It's amazing how tragedy can bring people together. Hugs and tears turned into laughter and crazy stories from college life. It was hard for us to leave each other after that.
MAY 2004
MAY 2004
Update: Rea Judilla will graduate this month with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking and minor in art history (with honors).
Q: What has changed since you did the journal entries for the Kansan?
A: Since I first wrote journals my freshman year, I've had to really grow up and find myself. In the final stretch of my stay here,
I've gone through a lot of phases and reached a lot of false truths and ideas about art, morality, relationships and identity. But in the end, the more and more I think about it, the more I realized how right I was as a freshman. For example, I wanted to do art and I wanted to express myself and I didn't let people's opinions of me mold me. I was in Templin Hall, the only kid studying art. I pissed off my roommates. I walked around covered in charcoal. I joined a sorority. I liked my alone time. Sure, I may have been haphazard and rough around the edges but I was honest.
A: So many times in our efforts to mature and love people, we just roll over or smile at dumb jokes and assume the role we feel intended to play. I do it all the
Q: What have you learned?
Q: What are your plans for the future?
future?
A: The ultimate development is my hurried and complicated graduation, on account of my internship and eventual ( fingerscrossed) job as a fine arts silk screen printmaker in New York at Brand-X Editions. I was lucky enough to find out about the opportunity through an alum of KU and a painting major from Wichita, just like me (except I switched my emphasis to printmaking). So, I'm living the dream, working hard trying to cut it as a wannabe artist in New York City.
... Who knew that would happen?
- Edited by Michelle Rodick
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