So after having a lovely sandwich with David, I had to go do this panel. I was a LITTLE buzzed when it started, so I was nervous about what was going to come out.
Thankfully, I held it together. Some things that all of us had in common were that we were all in relationships with people who were also in our line of work, we felt that our training at Santa Clara prepared us well, and we were all happy to go back to SCU to share our experiences.
The students had good questions. Some of the guys were smoking hot. I was hoping to be more of a "mentor" to some of the jockier looking ones. Hee, hee...
But it was great. Really gratifying and really got me back in the mindset of maybe doing some teaching. It was nice to know that my experiences could be helpful. And seriously, talking to my professors really reminded me of the type of student I was: hopeful, enthusiastic and a total character.
It was also nice to know that they still thought of me all these years later. I was just a dude that really wanted to dance and write and SCU allowed me that freedom to make mistakes, which is the point that all of us panelists made to the students. Go and experiment and do and try. That's probably the best thing that my education gave me. It was a small liberal arts Catholic university. No Carnegie Mellon or Northwestern or UCLA or NYU would let you do that. Yes, maybe the training might have been more advanced, but how much do you really retain of that. And it was nice to have a broad education to help you figure out what you really want to do.
It made me the artist I am today. So thank you Barbara, Fred, Jerry, David, Carolyn, Fran, Erik, Peter and Barbara. I owe you my life.
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