The importance of being a B.A

So last night after my 454 rehearsal I was feeling somewhat over whelmed with the whole thing and was just going to go home and sleep it off. But first I needed to stop by SPS to drop off something for 483. When I got there a fellow classmate was working on her lighting and was struggling with a particular look, so I put down my bag and set off to help her. An hour later her lighting was fixed and I was on my way home.

While driving I had a realization, we’re BA’s in a school that basically only cares about its BFA’s we get low budgets, crap furniture, shit rooms, and nobody trusts us with anything the only thing we do have is each other. Reflecting on this I realized that even if I don’t care, like, or feel particularly invested in our piece that isn’t the point because I care for, like, and am invested in my classmates. I have never been more stressed out over a final in my entire school career which says something because I’ve been in 391 and 331, the difference is in those classes even at the darkest moment I always believed everything would turn out amazing, in this class not so much.

But now I understand that isn’t the point, we as a class are building something and even if it crashes and burns it’s the journey that counts, it’s that as a class we trusted each other enough to put our egos aside and realize that it isn’t about being a star or having every idea you have heard and implemented, it’s about reaching out and just plunging head first into the fray with your classmates.

So what’s the point of all this: I stand next to you people not because I’m forced to but because I want to, I’m here for a grade true but more importantly I’m here for all of you and I will wade through the crap of being a BA so that at the end of if it all I can look back and say to all of you “look what we did” because as the saying goes either we work together or we don’t work at all.

Speaking of which for Black Cat get ready to be lifting and moving so if you are injury prone lets us know because we will be doing some crazy stuff.

Also check out this song it's all about being addicted to drugs and it's told from the perspective of the drug. (the video is really lame but the lyrics are the point.) Baltimore love things