# Art Degrees, especially ones from expensive schools.
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 16, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031 "2008-09-16T13:38:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/1 "2008-09-16T13:38:58Z")
I always lol when people tell me that they are going to school for art…
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/2 "2008-09-16T13:39:55Z")
i can draw art with my penis, does that make me eligible for art school?
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### Author:  [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/3 "2008-09-16T13:41:27Z")
yea, i don’t really understand the point of going to school for art… isn’t it kind of a “you can do it or you can’t” type thing?
i don’t think anyone puts their art degrees along side a painting and sells it for more cash
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/4 "2008-09-16T13:42:39Z")
i know people with over 100K in student loans for art schools.
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/5 "2008-09-16T13:43:39Z")
brooks institute wanted me to interview with their director for their photography school… its 35K a year…
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### Author:  [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/6 "2008-09-16T13:44:40Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> i know people with over 100K in student loans for art schools.
hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
unless they are very good they likely will never sell 10K worth of their art in their lives ☹
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/7 "2008-09-16T13:46:23Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> i know people with over 100K in student loans for art schools.
:biglaugh:
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### Author:  [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/8 "2008-09-16T13:46:30Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> i know people with over 100K in student loans for art schools.
what exactly did they get a degree in?
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### Author:  [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/9 "2008-09-16T13:47:16Z")
My sister has about 60k in loans…meanwhile she’s working at a thrift store. hooray fine arts degree.
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### Author:  [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/10 "2008-09-16T13:49:23Z")
> [@EvilJay](#):
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> My sister has about 60k in loans…meanwhile she’s working at a thrift store. hooray fine arts degree.
no offense to your sister, but that just sounds like a lack of motivation. i dont even have my degree yet and im already being offered jobs that i havent applied for yet.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/11 "2008-09-16T13:53:09Z")
> [@Eazy716](#):
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> what exactly did they get a degree in?
idk what they PLAN on getting a degree in but they’re 3rd year i think.
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### Author:  [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/12 "2008-09-16T13:55:40Z")
What exactly does an art degree prepare you for?
The one business class that was probably required for filler
is good enough for a quality McFuture though.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/13 "2008-09-16T13:59:06Z")
it’s usually girls, too. but they’re dumb to begin with. hopefully “GDW204: advanced gold digging” is part of the curriculum.
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### Author:  [@dmoffitt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dmoffitt)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/14 "2008-09-16T14:02:15Z")
… because if you want to make money / be in exhibits / make a name, you have to “know people” - art is no different than a lot of things: it is an old-boys-club endeavor. so you’re buying your way in (or getting a better leg-up to do so) just like “business school” (not MBA but undergrad) students.
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### Author:  [@Coldaccord](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Coldaccord)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/15 "2008-09-16T14:05:58Z")
my roommate is in his 6th year of undergrad at UB for art
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### Author:  [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/16 "2008-09-16T14:08:16Z")
> [@newman"](#):
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> I always lol when people tell me that they are going to school for art…
I agree to an extent I know a few artists that did further their natural abiliity with instruction as _most_ artists aren’t taken seriously without a MFA. Either way 100k is a fucking ass load and if you dont make that kind of money kind of a waste. Sort of like early childhood educators who go for a 3 year degree and pay out the ass for school and end up making a cap of 12$ an hour. Now that’s a joke.
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### Author:  [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/17 "2008-09-16T14:09:00Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> it’s usually girls, too. but they’re dumb to begin with. hopefully “GDW204: advanced gold digging” is part of the curriculum.
buahahahahahahahaahahahahah I do think this falls under one of the NYS Art learning standards 😛
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### Author:  [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/18 "2008-09-16T14:14:59Z")
agreed lol I was always interested in art classes during gradeschool… but I knew there was no career there, the only thing i considered doing was graphic arts, but thats more computer based in the end anyways.
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/19 "2008-09-16T14:16:12Z")
My friend Donna went to FIT, she took out a ton of school loans to go there, didn’t have parents to pay for school.
She now owns a consulting firm and makes lots of bank and lives in WNY.
So they’re not all losers
EDIT: since some people on here think $80k is a lot of money, She makes about 3-4x that and is under 30
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### Author:  [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/art-degrees-especially-ones-from-expensive-schools/55031/20 "2008-09-16T14:17:07Z")
It all depends on your own ability and motivation like anything in life. /thread
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