Dreaming of a Class with Kevin Smith
Nov. 7th, 2008 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Off work, sleeping in, and having odd dreams, the last part is not unusual:
I was back in college, taking a single class, taught by Kevin Smith. The class was full of students and he was giving us a major exam. He provided us the ads, posters, and fliers to several really campy movies, including independent, horror, and adult movies. The job was to answer the questions on the sheet for each movie.
The questions were easy, things like what is the title of the movie, who is the star, who is the main character, etc. The problem was there were so many questions. One of the questions involved answering a "Do you want to see this movie tonight?" He basically had put a quiz question to get a movie group together. I had answered "yes" on this one. Some of the questions involved drawing things from the movie or from the items or things that were inspired by the images. I was loving it! Drawing my best to see if I could impress him.
I had worked hard on the drawings and then realized that I had several movie sheets left to do and time was nearly up. I had gotten through two of them. I tried to rush and finish the easiest questions and time was called and I had to turn things in. I left the class miserable because I had spent so much time trying to get the drawings to look a certain way that I had by-passed my standard method of test taking, doing the easy questions first and then going back to do the ones that take more time. I knew I had flunked the exam because I probably only got 20% of the sheets finished. Because of that I was going to have to withdraw from the course or else wreck my GPA.
I was back in college, taking a single class, taught by Kevin Smith. The class was full of students and he was giving us a major exam. He provided us the ads, posters, and fliers to several really campy movies, including independent, horror, and adult movies. The job was to answer the questions on the sheet for each movie.
The questions were easy, things like what is the title of the movie, who is the star, who is the main character, etc. The problem was there were so many questions. One of the questions involved answering a "Do you want to see this movie tonight?" He basically had put a quiz question to get a movie group together. I had answered "yes" on this one. Some of the questions involved drawing things from the movie or from the items or things that were inspired by the images. I was loving it! Drawing my best to see if I could impress him.
I had worked hard on the drawings and then realized that I had several movie sheets left to do and time was nearly up. I had gotten through two of them. I tried to rush and finish the easiest questions and time was called and I had to turn things in. I left the class miserable because I had spent so much time trying to get the drawings to look a certain way that I had by-passed my standard method of test taking, doing the easy questions first and then going back to do the ones that take more time. I knew I had flunked the exam because I probably only got 20% of the sheets finished. Because of that I was going to have to withdraw from the course or else wreck my GPA.
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-07 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-07 02:31 pm (UTC)Maybe your dream was trying to tell you it's quality not quantity that counts.
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-07 03:02 pm (UTC)I mean, why even have the dream!?!?
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:30 pm (UTC)