One Year Down, Three to Go!
CalArts, you are awesome.
Besides being an excellent work environment with excellent people to be inspired/work with/goof off with, there were all sorts of shows I made it to… Peter’s Shadow (puppetry/theatre), Lost World (Theatre), Pure Grit (Theatre/Puppetry), the World Music Festival (Javanese Gamelan, African and Indian music… involving a robotic Indian set of drums), the Balinesian music performance (involving a robot that played gamelan– yes, robots are taking over the music department! Aaah!) two dance performances, the Open and Producers’ Shows, and probably a few other things I missed (those are just performances from the past month or so)!
I am proud of this:
Granted, that’s with all the 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and up… but STILL! 11 full minutes of pencil tests… yay 
Anyway, I thought this would be a good opportunity to put together a list of things I’ve learned at CalArts, either by observing other people, classes, lecturers, or personal experiences.
Don’t, under ANY circumstance, open up a refrigerator that doesn’t belong to you or a close friend. Especially if it’s by the pencil test machines by the windows. WORK HARD Sleep every night. Freshmen, prepare to survive off of a maximum of 4 hours of sleep your first semester. That translates into getting as much sleep as you can NOW! Freshies, ALSO prepare to...