Well, it is coming up again. What do you all say about this new school year? DO you like your schedule? WHat classes are you taking. Please feel free to spill any school blues/excitements you might have.
I’m gonna be honest here and say that I absolutely cannot wait to get into college
this month. Seriously, I’m biting my fingernails with anticipation. One of the reasons for this is because I
have been extremely bored for the past…few months and have had nothing whatsoever to do in order to keep myself
occupied to a healthy extent. Reason number two reaches over to the career side of the clouds: For once, I’ll
finally be able to do something with my life and enter into the animation arena so as to pursue my goals.
As for my classes, I’m going to major in computer graphics and minor in art. My goal is to earn a
Certificate of Authenticity, or something along those lines, which is basically the next degree down from an
Associate’s Degree.
So yeah. Bring on the workload, baby! I’m ready to jump out of my chair and start
cookin’! 
I am so ready for this next year of school. My schedule is very, very fun. I
take British Literature, Civics and Economics, Drama, Choir, Digital Mdeia, and Honors Pre Calculus.
The Star Swordsman - Ooo – sounds like fun, especially the “British Literature” part! I trust you’ll have a great time.
I know, I can’t wait to study the great works of Shakespeare!
Mitch I think College will be the best time of your life, it was for me.
School? Meep … ..
I can wait for it. between me being the only different one there out of 200 something kids…-- Gotta remember…this is a catholic school i’m in XD I’ve been in the same school for 10 years now XD This is my final year in my school. 8th grade. (obviosuly)
Well, my classes are basiclly the same as last year and so are all the teachers…you don’t really get to move around too much in my school. It’s pretty, well…BORING @_@
Just wait until you get into High school Deidara. You will
have so much freedom around there. That is what I like about HS.
(BTW, I remembered you as Mirage’s#1fan.
How could I forget? Welcome back!)
Yeah, I can’t wait for high school…@_@
I need outta there…very badly 
(Thanks 
Nice to see ya again.)
And here I was thinking that the QLD system was completely
odd compared to NSW. Now the US system is really odd. I find it funny how your big set of holidays are in the
middle of the year, but it makes sense because it being summer there. Does this mean that when you finish Grade
12 it will be in the middle of the year, and you started your first day of school in the middle of the year? That
would be really odd to me.
I think we are particularly blessed over here due to the fact that Summer and
Christmas coincide and we get heaps of holidays over christmas. I would like to experience a white christmas
however.
Only 1 1/4 years of school to go! Then what the heck am I going to do with my life ha! Still
debating whether to do animation at Uni or online through Animation Mentor which I have heard wonderful things
about. Or yet I could learn film editing, or graphic design or study to be a director of photography or become a
Mac technician. Anything to score a job at Pixar. But first would love to work for Weta.
Well, bawpcwpn, for me, school is a thing of the past, but
I usually began a new year in early September and finished it in early June. When Christmastime arrived, we were
given a couple of weeks off for Winter Break.
I’m not familiar with what skills you have (other than
running the best darn Pixar news blog evah!), but whichever career you wish to pursue, I recommend building
experience with Macs. Had I known Pixar was big on Macs, I would’ve followed a different
path.
~~=oP
aZnCdn - Oh yes. I’m going to make sure that it
will be one of the best times of my life.
bawpcwpn - I’m not sure if this applies to every state in the United States
in general, but here in California the school year usually starts in late summer/early fall and then ends in late
spring. My college semesters will stretch from late August to, I believe, late spring.
Vacation time
varies with each school, but we usually get a good majority of the summer season off and sundry other holidays
off, as well (ie., Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc…).
But yeah. It is kinda weird. 
Good luck
with your career, by the way! I’ll see you at Pixar…
I’m so excited for school to start that I’m practically exploding. I’ve been doing
several things to gear up, from going to bed earlier and earlier (1:30? During the summer? Unheard of!) and
drawing more every day. I’ve also stated a new yearly tradition to rate my progress.
For those ho don’t
know, my early summer was entirely dedicated to getting into the art school of my choice
CCS. I spent many a restless nights working on my portfolio. I did get in,
and even got some money for efforts. So come early Sept. I’ll be marching off to D-town to learn the trade.
I’m an Illustration major, but I may add Animation (concentrating on Character Animation) as a minor. Thanks to
stalkboo- I mean facebook I’ve been able to contact some students in those majors and learn about it. Turns out
that the two departments work closely together, and that’s fine by me.
My class schedule is great. I have
classes from Monday to Wednesday, which means I have a 4 day weekend. I’ll be working, so I won’t have an
excess of free time. My classes are Age of Discovery (Art History),
Figure Illustration I, Pictorial Problem Solving, and
Writing for Art & Design II.
I managed to test out of the first two english
classes. A bit of a double edged sword though. I don’t have to deal with stuff that would bore me, but I have
to take much harder classes now.
I really excited for my studio classes, especially the PPS class. My other
school looked down on things like illustration and the likes, so to be able to freely do it is revolutionary to
me. Sooooo happy! (And soooo poor ) 
I’ll probably miss the atmosphere of MSU, but I think I’ll manage to
be just fine without it.
Oh… Tenth grade… high school… I’m excited. I’m taking Art Foundations II ( I didn’t take it last semester because of a very bad experience with my art teacher) . Before school ended, my parents and I planned out my classes for the next three years (starting with tenth grade) . I signed up for a computer graphics class right away… so I’m excited. 
Owch. Way too early to be thinking about school yet! We haven’t even had our results back yet! They’re coming
out on the 23rd of this month…I don’t wanna think about it.
But as for school, well, it’s a pretty big
step for me this year- high school is finished, and it’s onto Sixth Form! As long as my results are what I’m
expecting, I’m going to be taking the following
subjects-
Physics
Maths
Latin
Psychology
So, lot’s of fun there! 
As well as those
four, I’m doing a car mechanics side course thing, just for fun. I don’t know if I’m excited or not- on the
one hand, I’m gonna be taking just the subjects that I enjoy, which is nice, but then on the other hand, I
probably won’t see much of my friends since there’s no guarantee that we’ll be in the same form together or
anything. There’s also the other worry that the stuff we’re going to be learning is going to be completely
above and beyond me…Apparently, the step from High School to Sixth Form is the biggest step to take in terms of
education difficulty, so it’s pretty scary.
We don’t start 'til September anyway, so there’s a little
while left before all of the worrying and hard work can begin, but still…
So glad to be done with school!!!
I found something fun while digging around my school’s website
A graduate of CCS
It gives me a little hope that it does.
I am not sure I am going to like it when that happens. Personally, I love school.
It is the biggest thrill of my life!
Haunt - Congratulations on securing a position at CCS! It’s even cooler that a
Pixar employee graduated at the exact same college/university. (Mr. Shuster designed the podracers in
The Phantom Menace? That’s beyond wicked!)
It still boggles my mind to
think that a good majority of us Pixar Planet members are striving to achieve the
same goal: to secure a position at Pixar Animation Studios. Just think: One of these
days we might all get to meet each other in person, and in the same studio!
– Mitch
With school starting for me in exactly one more week, I have got to say I have gotten the best Back-to-school present ever! I just got myself an Incredibles themed back to school kit! THis includes a:
Pencil sharpener of Dash
A Mr. Incredible eraser
two TI pens
post-its
an adressbook
pencil holder
TI ruler
and more!
You can say I am incredibly ready for the coming school year. 