So much for closing the Europen borders

Well well well... How can someone's life change in one month?

I'll tell you: a lot.

First things first, though.

PoliMi has some notorious downsides - i.e. lack of a social life outside the Poli itself - which it's famous for, and which I usually tend to remind to anyone attempting to get anywhere near it. This time though I really have to praise it. Why? Well, there's this thing called MEDes -aka Master of European Design- which consists in moving to one of the partner Unis for the last year of the  Bachelor, coming back in July to get the Bachelor degree, then moving again somewhere else for the first year of the Master degree and then move back to Poli for the second Master year. Crazy shit,right? I got accepted.

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The perks of being a Design Student

Hello little sunshines! Today it's February 8 and...

Wait, WHAT?!

Excuse me, but where has January gone exactly?!
I mean, it feels like yesterday when I had the second physics test, and then the third, and had to send in the 6th render, and then the 7th, and then the 8th, and then... Oh, I see.

Let's start again then.

Hello people, today it's February 8 and the world sucks.

Ok, maybe it doesn't, but being a design student probably does. Ok, it doesn't.
Just a bit maybe.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing what I'm doing, but the thing is, most of my friends are studying in other fields and yet, no matter how hard a time they say to be having, they still seem to have a pretty decent life besides Uni - DISCLAIMER: I am absolutely NOT denigrating other study fields.

Now, I know this may seem overstating, but being a design student leaves you with little to no life at all, especially if you decide to take a part time job too.
It's not that we have loads of stuff to properly study - even though I'm surrounded by History of art books at the moment - the real problem is the incredible amount of time it takes to "complete" projects, which in reality you never truly complete, as any design/architecture student will confirm.

Unluckily, projects are what we choose this field for - masochists  - so we can't really blame them, that's why I blame 3ds Max instead. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's actually Satan in it's 3D graphics software from, almost.

To give you guys an idea, here's a list of things you can do while waiting for your final render to be done:

1) Get your nails perfectly shaped and polished like in those cool tutorials.

2) Order a pizza.

3) Eat a pizza.

4) Have a long and meaningful conversation with your parents on FaceTime about how beautiful your kitty is.

5) Google Stephen Merchant on YouTube.

6) Laugh your butt off because of his lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

7) Start thinking about all the songs you'd totally nail if you were to lip sync them.

FML.

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Welcome to Milano

Surprise, surprise : I live in Milan(o) now.
Ok, it's not that a big deal, though it surely enough brought quite a few changes in my life.

First of all, I'm not living with my parents any longer (again), YAY! Welcome adulthood. Just kidding, I must admit I kind of miss them every now and then, especially when I'm having "troubles" with my new flatmates (not that we argue that much tbh). Yes, I do live with other three girls I'd never met before and yes, we do have problems sharing a f*@#ing small bathroom, but "that's just the way it is".

Second of all, I've finally started going to the University, and God, I'd never thought Interior Design would involve such a lot of stress! Nor that its materials would be THAT expansive, I guess I may have just found out why a designed armchair can cost up to many hundred euros!
Jokes aside, I do really love my faculty and its laboratories, especially Models lab, which I still haven't had the pleasure to use, but for which we had to take an enabling test (nothing too difficult indeed),and the people in my course are just amazing: I've known them for only a couple weeks and I already am in love with most of them.

Nevertheless, I'm probably going in Lithuania for one week next month for a workshop between my school, PoliMi, and Vilnius' Design School. I'll let you guys know what will come out of this for sure.

Actually, moving to Milan hasn't changed my daily routine only, but also, and most importantly, the perspective I have/had of my future. Don't get me wrong, I still don't know 100%  what I'll make of myself in these next years, but I do know, more or less, which way I'm going and, I'll be honest, it is an amazing way indeed.

I'll go to sleep now, since I'm feeling like crap and I unfortunately have 9h lab tomorrow, I'll be writing soon, I hope.

Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-EUSvJchI

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