UVA vs. Community College

Today I found out why it is worth it to pay three times the tuition (compared to community college) to attend UVA plus the extra times. The very first class was at least ten times as good. The teacher has been teaching for 20 years and is a full professor there. She has published illustrations and is currently part of a group show in NYC. She is very precise about the materials but very flexible in what we produce as long as it shows effort (and lots of it). Art is a personal statement so her attitude makes sense. I have already spent hours of thinking and working from just a single class! Forget community college and go to a better institution if you can. It will be worth both money and effort; at least it is at UVA which is ranked extremely high.