Art Tesstory

I'm taking an art history class at the local community college, which has a reputation for attracting delinquents and underachievers from our school district. Predictably, this is true, but not completely true. I was surprised to like community college - but why shouldn't I? It has all the resources of college, ironically without the obligation to community. Every student is an island by default, and the pressure to crash together and form continental cliques is absent. Most people that end up at community college have deviated from the beaten path to get there... we're hitchhikers all; lonely, but united by an unspoken bond of the road.

Art history classes have a reputation for being obscenely boring. Again, this is true, but not completely true. Art history is one of the richest subjects that can be studied; I think the best way to learn about history is to learn about its art and vice versa. With that frame of mind, I don't hurt myself with my feverish, obsessive note-taking. But if I forget why art history is cool, it's very easy to be bored by videos about Romanesque architecture. My point is: everyone should take an art history class. My other point is: remember not to be bored in art history class.