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Yale:What Got Me In- Linda Cho & ShowbizU

Name: Yale:What Got Me In- Linda Cho & ShowbizU
Uploaded: 2014-08-19T19:49:14+00:00
Duration: 1 min 6 s
Channel: Tim Kashani
Description: In this personal recollection, the speaker recounts an interview for Yale's design program with renowned faculty Ming Cho Lee and Jane Greenwood. While…

19 Aug 2014 · 1 min

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In this personal recollection, the speaker recounts an interview for Yale's design program with renowned faculty Ming Cho Lee and Jane Greenwood. While the interviewers harshly criticized her watercolor work and costume/set designs, they were impressed by a modest sketchbook she carried from her time studying in Paris and traveling since childhood. The sketchbook contained pen-and-ink contour drawings of buildings, paintings, and diary-like observations. Ming Cho Lee praised these drawings, noting their honesty and love for the visual world, and this impression ultimately secured her admission to Yale, despite her own later embarrassment over her earlier design work.

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When I went to my interview, it was with Ming Cho Lee and Jane Greenwood, and Ming said, "Oh, your watercolor is terrible! Oh, you need to go back and learn how to figure draw. This is terrible!" But, you know, surprisingly, I had this little sketchbook that I just carried around with me when I was a student in Paris for that semester, and also I did it when I traveled with my family starting when I was like 12. And I would just use a pen and ink and just draw things, do contour drawings, draw buildings, draw paintings, write a little diary of things. And he flipped through that and he said, "Now this, this is something." And that is what actually got me into Yale. Not my crappy costume designs, not my crappy set designs. They were very— I look at them now and it's humiliating. But these drawings, there was, you you know, there was an honesty and there was like, I think, just a love for the visual world. And I think truly that's what sort of helped me get into that school.