ENCOURAGING WORDS

So its midterm time. Thats right, the year is a quarter over. Its amazing how time has flown by. I've been really overwhelmed lately dealing with who I am as a designer and how I can stand out among the 2459938890000 million kids ALSO doing fashion. I realized that my problem is with workmanship and execution. I have the ideas and innovation and the drive but as my teacher says instead of working harder I should just work smarter. My methods (sewing/draping) class midterm was very depressing, hell I wanted to start crying right there and then. I've never had such a low grade since Chemistry back in ghetto ass high school. It hurt so bad, but I'm going to take it as a wake-up call. My teacher was very encouraging and let me know that he's seen much worse in students and they've gone on to be great. So I'm hoping that if I really push myself and think smarter about how I approach things, slowly but surely I'll progress and at least catch up with the rest of my class. My drawing teacher was really motivating and kept stressing that my personal vision and style are the things that really need to shine through my work, which was really comforting seeing as how these generic projects really piss me off and I get so watered down that all my figures either look like generic mannequins or crap. Either way I'm going to improve. I MUST, there's no way I'm giving up now. I've come too far, risked too much and worked too hard. Next year starts now, hell next year is now..S.H.