Even though I don't really ever talk about my personal life on DA, I kinda just felt like letting everyone know all the stuff that's going on.

Well, I've hit senior year. It feels so completely strange, knowing that I'm going to be graduating and heading off to college soon. I've had such a wonderful life these past few years, I can't imagine giving that up and trying to make it on my own. I've been looking at colleges, trying to apply for scholarships and whatnot, but it's hard to find the time and commitment to do all that between school. Because it's senior year, I've been trying to do as much as I possibly can- and oh goodness, do I feel the effects. I'm taking two AP classes (including AP Art, which is incredible and I absolutely love it. I feel like I've grown a ton even after just two months.), I'm in four or five clubs and acting as historian of one, and I'm playing a lead role in the musical. I've also finally gotten my photography business going, which is scary but incredibly fun all at once. I was worried about how I would do catering to the desires of clients, but everyone so far seems to have loved my work. So far, only the cosplay shoots from business have gone up, and I imagine I will continue only putting up my freelance work here and there, depending on my personal feelings toward the final images and the desires of my clients.

As far as colleges go, I also wanted to ask if anyone here on DA had any advice? I feel a little lost as far as college goes. Granted, I have plenty of resources for help between parents, counselors, teachers, etc. I just want to do the best that I possibly can, and I don't know how to go about it. I feel like I have enough raw talent to get some great scholarships to some great schools, but I'm not sure I'm trying in the right way, or looking in the right places. Probably doesn't make much sense... but oh well. If anyone has any suggestions for scholarships or schools to look into, I would much appreciate it.

Hopefully in the future, I'll continue putting up more art. In the near future I'd like to get some girls that I know to model for me and have my sister, who is a cosmetologist, to style for me, so that I can have at least some taste of a legitimate shoot, but we'll see how much time I have for shoots. I'd also like to put up some of the artwork that I've done for my AP Art class (what, you mean, she does TRADITIONAL ART??), but we keep all of that at school in portfolios, so it depends on when I would have time to take my camera to school and get some pictures of it.

My DA page is approaching 20,000 views. I know a lot of people say that it's bad to keep track or watch that stuff, but I like it. I'm glad to be able to see how far I've come. That's also why I haven't removed all my older junk from the far reaches of my (twenty-something page) gallery. Hurray. What should I do for 20,000? Make a piece of artwork? Reward whoever screen-captures the big two-oh-oh-oh-oh itself? Well, regardless, thanks all. It's been a wild ride.

Nova

On a final note, I'll do some features of some of the other folks in my AP class. (Speaking of which, if anyone knows of anyone else in my class here on DA, which I'm sure there probably is, I'd love to see their pages! Step forward, my friends!)





(Not in AP, but will be next year!)