I find it hard to be an introvert in design school. I am quiet by nature but I get very sociable with my group of friends. Usually, I feel intimidated by big groups of people with dressy fashion sense, I am just a casual person with perhaps some accessories every once in a while. I think its my confidence issues. I am abit shy, but I am friendly. Its just that I dont put myself out there and I feel like that is not a good way. I like to do things alone, read, watch my films, music etc. I never really felt interested in joining activities from DSC but I feel like people see me as someone not interested in socializing, meek, shy etc? I am not like that. Because of my tendency to only stick to my group of friends and probably because Im not in DSC, people never remember me and I feel like Im in the minority. It cant be helped that society always prefers extroverted confident people and sadly I am not the one. I am confident in the sense that I like how I dress although its simple, I like my confidence in presenting my ideas but I am not confident in dealing with extroverted people. They always remind me that they are generally more preferred to me. I guess I need time for myself to be mentally recharged. Because of my introverted personality, I dont have many close friends in poly and especially design where cliques, popularity and status are everything from what Ive observed. Its really not all that fun in my opinion. Its a stressful school both physically and mentally. I wish to find people that are like me as friends next year when we change classes because my current friends are the best things that happened to me. Because my school is small, theres always people that want to be known by everyone and make the rules to befriend people or not. My friend from another school told me how people generally have this negative stigma towards us because there are people in design who seems so overly superior who seems to be cold, proud and unfriendly. Because some of us are so overly dressed, I dont care if you say fashion has nothing to do with this, but it gives off an impression that you are judgemental with a cold smile-less facial expression,gestures etc. People get intimidated by this and I dont want people to generalize design students like that. I dont mean everyone in design is like that but the ones that are manipulative to me are like that. Sadly such people are usually the popular ones and I dont really feel I fit in anywhere in a school like this...
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:00:01 +0000
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