Life's path
Just cleaning out the file cabinet this morning. I sent this flyer out to friends in 1993 just as i was to start graduate school. I knew it was an expensive gamble. ( RIT was not a cheap place to to major in an obscure design degree) I tried to map out all my adventures and stops in life since high school on a map. I guess I figured seeing where I had been would help chart the path ahead.
Finishing undergraduate had put a big ? on my future and I feel it was a pretty low part of my life. Friends had moved on to jobs and careers and I just could not see my future on a day to day basis.
Weird part time jobs and living at home..... all in the middle of a terrible recession.... it was crushing. All the occupy movement stuff going on ..I can feel the uncertainty of a young person graduating to face an unknown...... Getting in to RIT was a gamble - but the acceptance letter gave me a path and I knew where I would be for the next two years. Just that feeling of knowing where you would be and doing for that small period of time.... it was a great emotional relief. I was incredibly happy. The optimism was a foreshadowing. RIT ( as a period in my life) was a fantastic experience and I never worked so hard or felt so creative. Between the work, new friends and coming to terms with my sexuality.... I really felt myself shift into the person I knew I could be.
**you'll notice I misspelled Public Safety on the flyer. Yes - I ended up sending this out to friends and family before the dawn of spell check
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