Columbia College Chicago

Oh Columbia College, when you say you go here you either get the response;

(from someone 18 to 24 from chicago): Oh, so you're a hipster? - or - Oh, so you are stuck up and think you're the shit?

(from someone 30 +): Oh, so how are you gonna pay your bills, what kinda REAL job are you gonna have?

Those are at least what I've gotten.

Columbia has its positives and negatives. A negative is that its easy. While some people like easy classes, I don't feel like I'm getting the most from a class. If I'm paying as much as I am I want to be getting the most from it, I want the classes to be a challenge and I want to really learn something more than I already know. 

But a positives, the teachers here, they are in there field and are working in it or have recently worked. It kinda gives me strength that I can get somewhere doing photography and I don't need to do wedding photography for a career (EW! haha). And also with Columbia you don't have to take real science classes but more "artist science" courses. Or history, there is Photography history which for me its my field and getting a history class out of the way for my graduation. 

I've heard what others have said about Columbia, and now people that went here for a year or two and left and said they got nothing out of it, maybe that was there fault or maybe the school. I'm waiting to find out what my ending will be like. 

I guess I have a neutral view of Columbia, it has its negatives and positives experiences and stories. But of course it is my first year here, and I'm not going to compare it to my previous college and I know that next year not being that transfer / "freshman to columbia" student will be better. I have hopes that Columbia will get me somewhere in life. I wanna be an artist and I don't wanna have to resort to some dead end job that I hate - so come on Columbia you better be the stepping stones. Because if next year is like this year, I'm 90% sure I'm leaving. Sorry Columbia, Photography College could REALLY get me farther, but I'm giving you one more shot.