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Recording Place with Rohan Spong: A Summer School Adventure

So I like uni a lot. Not particularly the assignments and stress part, but the community and socialising part. I like learning things and I love being able to keep to a schedule. It gives me a purpose during these bleak holidays where I spend my days roaming around the suburbs and never achieving anything.

This year I chose again to do a summer semester, specifically a summer studio and boy was I in luck. It was being taught by the lovely Rohan Spong again, whom I had the previous summer semester for my music video studio. Last time was scary and stressful. It was the first studio I took seriously and made an effort in. I was finishing my first year of university and had out a lot of expectations and stress on my outcome for the summer semester, but with Rohan that class was enjoyable and a breeze. I loved it and I love it now. To this day that class was one of my university highlights. Being able to focus on only one class gave me clarity and an ability to just be a student immersed in one element.

This time around I am officially a third year student. I have a few subject to catch up on but in this class I realise that I am now one of the senior students. I know more than mojority of the students, whom mostly consist of first and second years. It has made me realise that over the course I have actually learnt and grown as a person, and in this studio I hope to use these advantages and make something I can be proud of at the end of semester.

So here’s to 2017 and the studio to come. This has mainly been a reflection of what I think so far of the studio, but I wanted to use this opportunity to process my thoughts about doing a second summer studio and if I had to sum it down I would describe it as a rewarding experience I would love to try again. Summer studio rocks, and I am genuinely excited to see the final documentary I create this month.