There was an immediate sense of
belonging that you know before that I
just felt very lost and I didn't really
know what I was doing. As soon as I met
any of the faculty members, they just
started creating this very personal
connection with me which enhanced that
feeling that this was where I was meant
to be and this is what I was meant to be
doing. They constantly are there to like
nurture you whilst also giving you
independence, which is something that I
have never see you or experienced
before. Having that on such a big canvas
is very reassuring. They create these
connections that I wouldn't be able to
do on my own. You're constantly
surrounded by like renowned faculty
members that like are in this field. And
they can give you guidance. They can help
you wherever you can with
whatever that you want to do. In my
Museum Studies class, we have like the
curators and the director. We have all
these incredible people that have been
in the field for years and years, and
they're in my classroom talking to me
about their experiences and how they can
help me get there. I took a couple of intro classes. I took a couple of intro classes.
I took a couple more specialized classes in first semester of being an art history major and
I just I really enjoyed it. And the faculty made it super enjoyable.
It was intellectually stimulating in a way
that I was sort of I think looking for
on a subconscious level that I didn't quite
know. And yeah, I just kind of ran with it I guess.
Sort of an immediate change it was like we were just taking one of the early sort
of survey classes, and I would
suddenly walk around campus and notice
bits of the architecture. It's just these
sort of small details about the visual
world that you might not necessarily pick up, but it also more focused it makes
things like going to a museum or watching films
even a much more sort of detail oriented as well as you get sort of a more intimate experience with the visual world.
You know, I came to our history as
other people did as well a little bit later in my academic career at Penn State,
and the only my only regret is that I
didn't find it sooner,
