Levinson's Ages of Man

Well-I'm in psychology class right now. Its rather boring at the moment probably because I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention.

Last night was the jars of clay concert. It was pretty cool I got free front row seats because I video taped it for the college. Sometimes I get a pretty sweet deal for working for Houghton.

So believe it or not there is sorta a reason for this blog. One of my professors wife is having a baby soon and I'm his TA, so this week has kinda been preparing for what I'm going to do for his classes when he's gone. So anyway I was in his office for a pretty long time talking.

He had left and came back. In the mean time I had taken a book off of his shelf "Studio MX". He came back in and was like oh thats a web editing thing...I'm like yeah I never knew what it was. I have it on my computer but never knew what it was. He was like "Why are you doing this Jesus stuff?"-hands on head yelling...you'd have to know the guy he is hilarious. So thats all to set up the context of our conversation. (BTW he wasn't serious he respects that I'm a religion major but also talked about putting Dr. Case in a head lock and vice versus)

I asked him if he thought I could get into grad school for video with my current portfolio. He said I was good enough to get in now (baring some things). so I was like then why should I bother doing this now. He said something really profound. "Because you make it mean something."

I asked him why he just didn't tell me to go to film school. He said I wouldn't fit in to film school. At first it pissed me off but then he explained. He has his MFA in computer something or other and did film at RIT. He was just saying how people in the program just want to make money and do cool things. They produce cutting edge stuff and great things but it has no meaning. No root.

I find myself always questioning my major and why I am Houghton. I know for a fact I am in the right place doing what I'm supposed to but I get all these mixed ideas because people love my video stuff. But I get to do stuff that has meaning. The last project I did had a ton of meaning for me and for other people. Fatherhood of God

Anyway that conversation meant a lot to me and brought a lot of perspective to somethings I've been feeling but un-able to articulate.