Blog Post #3 - Rani Khamphilavong

I posted my response as a new post since the site was telling me that it was too large to post as a comment!


I consider my time at CCA to largely resemble task-time. When I am doing my studio homework, it is both fun and productive. When my friends and I work on our illustration homework together, we still talk and joke around as we complete our assignments. There is no definite distinction between work and leisure to me. Though there is a sense of labor-time at CCA. We have classes at specific times that we must attend during those hours. But when class is in session, the fun and play is not lost. For example, in my Editorial class, the students as well as the instructor discussed a new movie with owls. We discussed the idea that if we can accept that the owls can talk, can it be possible for owls to talk to monkeys? Labor-time and idle-time are more present to me when I am doing my H&S classes. Idle-time is the most prevalent when I am doing my assignments for my H&S classes. I can only get through a couple sentences in my essays before I find myself mindlessly browsing the internet or playing Pokemon. I consider doing these activities to be idle-time because I am not accomplishing anything while I do them. When I am in my H&S classes, all that I am aware of is the time and how much time is left before I can leave. I consider these classes to be labor-time because I am basically clocking-in and clocking-out of class. I do expect my experience of work-time to change when I leave CCA because I will no long have classes or labor-time to make sure I keep doing art. I would have to create my own labor-time, setting time to motivate myself to keep illustrating.

I think that paying such a large sum of money should influence the students to try their best as a CCA student. We are paying to have access to instructors and facilities that can be hugely beneficial to us. Thought there is the draw back of paying so much money and not guaranteed a job afterwards. That is why the short time we have at CCA is so crucial. Students have to network and develop connections and skills so they can survive in such a competitive field. To have these opportunities and to not have to pay for them exists only in dreams. But there should be a reasonable price to pay for such opportunities.

It is understandable for the British students to strike because making the tuition so high limits the amount of people that can get a higher education. They lose the opportunity to build skills and connections to survive in the work force. I read that the teachers’ salary would also be cut and that could relate to the French strike. The people would have to work longer and earn less. The people would have to wait longer for leisure time. Since they would earn less, the people who have to work won’t be able to afford leisure-time as well.