May 21, 2015

Hello, blogosphere, it's Neil. My experiences at Berks Career and Technology Center were interesting, to say the least. Many things that happened were some of the most stressful things to ever happen to me since my time at Little Keswick School and frequently challenged my ideas of right and wrong against other people's. Many more things that happened, however, expanded my skill set and began to show me some of the valuable skills I will need in my desired industry for work. The first skill I learned was how to make full studio short films. While I will have a lot of work to do before those skills can be perfected, I think that I have a good idea of how to get started on making both short and long films, animated and live-action. The second one was blogging and podcasting. There are many different activities I would like to do over this summer, such as binge-watching television, films, and videos on multiple streaming services, binge-reading various books and comics I'm interested in, binge-playing many video games, creating practice videos for Vimeo, YouTube, and maybe even Facebook, jotting down ideas for my original concepts in personal notebooks, going to the pool with friends, editing many wikis (mainly movie wikis, but I'll edit other kinds of wikis as well when it suits me), participating in discussions on fan forums, writing nonromantic fan fiction for various things I like, and blogging on various wikis, with the wiki blogs being about whatever the blog is about, a personal blog about anything on my mind except movies, and an audio podcast about only movies. There is a strange good feeling about getting your opinion out about whatever you want with the slim chance that some stranger will notice it and think you're cool, so if I can get the time in for all of this, that will be great for me. The third was that you are going to deal with people you can't stand. OK, I somewhat already knew that, but working here really hammered that in for me. There were two students here that said so many obnoxious things that I was positive that their removal from the program would tremendously improve my experience, and it probably would. But, that's not how it works, and the best you can do is pretend that those things don't bother you and work together like you have no problem with them. Berks Career and Technology Center is a fine establishment, and I am excited to learn more in the next two years at this facility. Only one question remains- where do I go from here? That question will be answered next year, when I continue to make the future.