I used to study fashion design.

June 27, 2008 cristinarivera

The fashion world has always been something very interesting for me. That’s why in 2005 I started to study fashion design in Santiago, Chile at DUOC UC.
In this learning process I could meet three of my designers friends involves in my project. The study was pretty good, I really liked the design process of clothes, but if you don’t like to sew, you’re done! I preferred to spent time in my computer designing clothes or posters than consuming time in the sewing machine. That’s why in the middle of my second semester I decided to quit.

Very bad semester…

My family felt very up set and disappointed with me. I was twenty years old and I still had vocational crisis!. They try to persuade me with finish the semester and have at least one year of study. But when you know it, you know. It was just a waste of time, and the creativity it wasn’t my best friend during that last semester.
Finally in 2006 I tried luck studying something very similar with the computer graphic course that I took in the other career. The name is Digital Graphic Production; I have doubts with this career, especially because it is two-year career only. Maybe for Canadian, two years is time enough for a career, but in Chile the polytechnics careers don’t have a good reputation.

Polytechnics Institution in Chile

Chilean people think that a five years career is the only option. Personally I think that only exist a few careers that deserve to study for five years, but for university’s and institutions make all careers last five years is a big business. And they just don’t career if they have to teach irrelevant and obsolete content.

At the end I just did it, and it was pretty good as you can notice. Now I have a scholarship and all that “suffering” that I had is almost in the past. And I don’t regret of study a two years career. Mostly because I think that as a human beings and professionals you never finish to learn regardless of how much time you career last.