The Finale

Posted in Travel, RPCV by Dom on November 16th, 2008

Driving was horrible today. Amazingly bad. It was rainy most of the time; then the sun came out for a bit and made a blinding glare on everything. It was great conditions to find out how stupid people are about driving. Many people forgot or didn’t seem to know that the left lane was for passing. I passed people in the right lane who must have just had cruise control on or something and they were looking at their cell phone. Ridiculous. I couldn’t handle it and when people wouldn’t notice the people coming on from the on ramp until they were right beside them and then cutting other people off. People just cruising right beside other people when there’s a line of cars waiting to move on. It was just absurd. 6+ hours of abusrd driving. I’ve never not enjoyed driving so much. Eh.

RISD was cool, except the first time I went it was just a bad day. I forgot my wallet and I couldn’t get breakfast, or a battery for my bike light. The building I needed to go to was locked. So I sat around and followed some kid in. Then the floor I needed was locked, so I knocked. Found out I that they had no time for me that day. So I drove back to my friends house where I was staying. The next day was much better though. RISD was cool, they had some great facilites and a real intense program. I spent some time at their museum too, that was real cool. It is nice to see some old friends and meet some new ones too.

Pratt was interesting. They had a three year program that really seemed to give a solid foundation in design. It was in a pretty neighborhood in brooklyn too, lots of brownstones. Their campus was fun too, there was art all over it. New York was cool, but it was weird. It was just miles of store fronts and apartments with random spots of glitz. It almost all looked the same so much that it almost tricked you into thinking you’ve really just been hanging out on the same four blocks the entire time. There was some good stuff there though. Glad to be on the way home though, it’s time.