My Tour of Emerson College

Published on March 9th 2010.

This past year I have been in a creative slump. I’ve done nothing but struggle to find work, struggle to keep work, and sit at home in order to save money. My laptop is over five years old and it can barely run firefox…let alone Photoshop or Pinnacle Studio. I have had no creative outlet until last Christmas when I received an external hard drive. I was able to clean up my computer enough to use my editing programs again. Pinnacle still sucks, though. Now only if I had a decent camera!

Finally, after rescheduling my appointment several times due to family events, I was able to tour Emerson College! I have been on such a “high” ever since.  I have been crazy motivated and creativity is spewing from my pores.

There was more to the tour than just a few students showing me around campus.  There was this feeling of life.  I could feel myself and my creativity waking up. I guess a comparable feeling would be the “at home” feeling.  I am where I am suppose to be. I am comfortable, eager, and ready to tinker with equipment.

Unlike the other prospective students and their guests, I had two pages of written questions I threw together after doing thorough research on Emerson. I feel ready to take on what Emerson has to offer.

As the tour came to its last stop, we all shuffled into a dim lit room where we are suppose to watch a student project.  It would have been a movie trailer that a student redid for their class.  For some reason Pro Tools couldn’t open the session. Bob Cusumano, the assistant manager of digital post-production at Emerson, tried to open the project several more times before pulling the “SOL” card.

Out of the many years Bob has worked at Emerson he had never come across that issue before… until the day I took the tour. Funny how that happens.

I’m glad that the video didn’t work, though.  Had it worked I would have never had the opportunity to sit down and get to know a potential future professor of mine. At the beginning of the tour a spokesperson for Emerson gave us prospective students some advice.  He told us when we become students at Emerson that it is important to get to know your professors… and here I was doing just that. And I haven’t even applied yet!

Since the tour I have been on a roll.  I have been perfecting my essay, designing my portfolio, and putting together a video project for the audition into Emerson.