Subject: Two Weeks Of Learning At CFP (CEPT Foundation Program

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Dear Khushi,

Two weeks into college life and I am sure that everything I heard about CEPT student life and work pressure is true.

Remember how I used to complain when your college started and you got busy and I had to wait for my admission offer letter? That’s not the case anymore. I feel like I have finally started getting where I wanted to be. As you already know, my college started two weeks ago.

Two weeks. Fourteen days. These days have been so much fun and hectic at the same time. I have enjoyed every bit of the time I have spent here in the studio. Studios are basically our classrooms where we each get our desk and workspace as you can see in the photograph above.

On the first day, we were all given assignments which included making straight lines horizontally, vertically and diagonally on an A3 size paper using different media. I thought of it as an easy exercise but soon realised it’s not as easy as it seems. I did not consider the details I had to take into account. The lines which I made had to be of the same intensity and be as straight as an arrow. The exercise taught me that even if I feel my work to be the best, there is always room for improvement. The amount of effort I will put into my work right now will help me work as a professional one day out in the field.

Slowly, we moved on from the lines to making shapes and 3D forms to making different structures out of those shapes. My faculty taught me why I should not just make the shapes but construct the shapes and 3D forms. It is more important to construct the objects and show the method because the journey is more important rather than the destination. Here, the image below is of some equilateral triangles I tried to construct.

When I first made my lines, they were bumpy and inconsistent. When I compared it with the sheet I made for the tenth time, I could see an immense improvement. They had the same intensity and much lesser bumps. I realised it was not going to be easy to get the perfect result and I would have to practice for a long time before I achieved it. You can see the difference

between my first and last sheet I made in the images below. This I achieved after practicing for a whole week and getting a maximum of four hours of sleep per night. If I can achieve these results in lines, I can surely make perfect shapes and forms after practice.

This was my experience in just the first two weeks at CFP. I am beginning to enjoy my time here doing what I really like.

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences of college so far.

Lots of love,

Urja