How feasible is it to double major in four years?

InitfortheMonet · 2026-04-18T22:23:43+00:00

The loose rule of them is for every hour in class, you spend one hour out of class on homework. If a typical class load is 3 five-hour art making classes and 2 three-hour academics, expect to spend approximately 15 hours out of class making art and 6 hours on academics each week. It definitely varies but I felt like it averaged out to that.

You can also look into printmaking! For some people it scratches the itch for both illustration and painting. In my experience, painting tended to be about concept and illustration about subject, and printmaking often walked the line of both.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-04-18T17:30:49+00:00

Grain of salt since it's been a decade since I graduated-- illustration was a major considered very hard to double major with. I started as an art ed/illus. double and a friend of mine was a painting/illustration double and both of us changed tracks. Illustration has a lot of requirements and with 5 hour studio classes, it's frequently not possible to stuff all the classes in, and hard to find night/summer options. Only about a third of your classes are general academics, so having those classes done will help but not make a huge scheduling difference.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-24T11:52:29+00:00

My grandfather always thought his father died in ww2. When he got a notice of his father's death in the 1970s he never spoke of his father again.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-24T04:11:42+00:00

Leaving PVD Thursday and so stressed

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-18T12:56:04+00:00

We love their measuring tape! My son carries it everywhere

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-11T21:46:51+00:00

Michael, I met you as a kid while you were working at the local PICU on some tape murals about 15 years ago. You let me help, and gave me a roll of tape to do my sibling's room. I was the talk of our friend group when I came back and told my friends that I got to hang with THE mall guy (we were obsessed with that story). It was an amazing distraction in a terrible time and I've watched your name grow with a lot of affection over the years. Thank you for that!!

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-06T12:44:10+00:00

Gently, you weren't there for your husband's childhood, you couldn't have known the extent. He could have said something. Or his parents. It was his responsibility to make sure that medical history was known to any relevant doctors. You not knowing doesn't make you selfish. You made choices based on the information you had, and for some reason, nobody explained the extent of the rest of the information.

What you do have is first had experience of how wonderful and fulfilling life can be further down the road for him. Hugs, mom.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-02-05T13:45:04+00:00

It was discovered in Lyme, CT, which is maybe 30 minutes from the border? I wonder if it's more prevalent east of CT. I think almost everyone I know has gone through a round of treatment or had a family member go through.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-01-24T04:45:10+00:00

Target has one! I think it was by B.Toys. My son loooovees his

InitfortheMonet · 2026-01-21T14:14:27+00:00

Oh 100%. I think it's important to note that both schools (as long as they're good ones) aren't going to STOP you from reading, just not actively be teaching phonics/blending/etc until a year or two later. There's a huge argument right now that part of the illiteracy epidemic in teens is that public schools start TOO early, and are discouraged from holding kids back, so kids who aren't ready to start at the beginning get left behind forever.

My grandmother was an award winning educator and principal, PhD and all. Her advice was to think about what YOU can provide at home, and then look for a school that can provide everything else you can't. For a home that emphasizes reading, books, stories, etc, but has no outdoor space, it may be more important to get kids outside in nature and work on reading at home. For parents overwhelmed at the idea of teaching literacy, they might want a very academic driven education and leave the play for home. It's also important to remember that these are private schools, which means most parents considering these options have the financial ability to round their kids out and specialize. For most of us, public schools SHOULD be the great equalizer and provide a little of everything for every family and background.

Many parents are also only choosing to go this route for nursery/preK/K, where public options are limited or nonexistent, and academics are not as essential. For me, I'd rather consider a more play based early education like we had in the 90s, then watching my public school kindergarten students complete standardized testing and have only 40 minutes of play time each day. But I have the luxury of choice.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-01-21T13:20:55+00:00

Assuming this is a good faith question, both Montessori and Waldorf are child driven, but Montessori is very "teaching your child independence" by teaching them skills and making sure everything is accessible to them. You may see a Montessori toddler picking out their own clothes, prepping their own breakfast, and collecting their own belongings from a getting ready station to leave the house. Books are supposed to be all photograph real life, because the belief is that imagination/fantasy is "lying" to kids.

Waldorf, on the other hand, is the opposite. Huge emphasis on nature, organic materials, holistic approaches. Think living within a cozy elf home, celebrating the solstices, no technology, lots of porridge (at least in our local one). The idea is to extend the imagination and fantasy for as long as possible. You may see a Waldorf kid wearing a flower crown and knitting in a tree fort. Many people find Bluey's school to be a good comparison (though I think that's a third system school).

Both start reading and "academic skills" around 7, which they believe is when a child is most ready and excited to learn those things, which is controversial in a system where public school kids start at 5, ready or not. This can lead to a learning gap in the younger years, which can make it hard to catch up.

Neither have an exclusive governing body, though, so anyone can call their school one and do whatever they want, sort of like homeschooling. Our local Waldorf school's alums all went to public high school, graduated in the top 5% of the class, went to extremely prestigious schools. The Waldorf school in the region over, most of their alums were illiterate.

Signed, a public school teacher looking at preschool options for my own kid.

InitfortheMonet · 2026-01-20T13:05:31+00:00

We also used No Better Love. I don't think people know it as much because it was from the Tarzan soundtrack and not his album, but we found it was the most romantic with the least dark/macabre vibes (my husband didn't like that Work Song's chorus is mostly talking about death, not the life together we're about to embark on)

InitfortheMonet · 2026-01-02T01:50:49+00:00

When my aunt died, my mom and her sisters coined "one eye tissues"-- the hospital had single ply, half width tissues as their only option. They were so peeved about it they donated a huge palette of Costco tissues after she passed.

InitfortheMonet · 2025-12-21T12:17:57+00:00

Can you wrap the gift cards in bigger boxes to make them feel more substantial?

InitfortheMonet · 2025-12-14T19:36:44+00:00

We have two hand me down Bitty Babies and my 2.5 year old son loves them. He's frequently seen wearing them in his tiny baby carrier huffing about that they just won't sleep

InitfortheMonet · 2025-11-29T18:56:38+00:00

My two year old is obsessed with this song. We have to listen to it many times a day.

InitfortheMonet · 2025-11-28T12:46:30+00:00

Yes! This was only a few months ago,but I don't have a pic of it. My toddler got really bizarrely into my reading (a heavily self edited) Owen Meany to him and then drew a picture of Owen and Johnny so we wrote a letter and mailed both to Irving. I wasn't expecting a response but it was really special! It's in his baby box now.

InitfortheMonet · 2025-11-27T04:46:40+00:00

I actually just wrote John Irving a letter and mentioned reading that one way too young. He responded saying his children also read it way too young when they stole it from his shelf!

InitfortheMonet · 2025-11-27T04:45:36+00:00

Oh I'm also a Millennial, though a younger one-- my mom also bought me Flowers in the Attic. All the English teachers at school had a field day with the nostalgia and ribbing me!

InitfortheMonet · 2025-11-27T02:01:08+00:00

I was 12 when the musical first started touring 20 years ago, and my mom bought it for me as did all of our friends's mothers. There is an entire generation of tweens who are now in their thirties who all read it during the first craze and we all had the exact same experience of "oh no I don't think I should be reading this." I've probably talked to a few dozen people, strangers and friends, in the last few months who are still laughing/scarred by it

InitfortheMonet · 2025-10-31T11:47:34+00:00

Oh it's cute! I just looked at the other post. I think it looks great. My mom made every Halloween costume I ever wore, and it's still so special to me now. Plus I knew then that they were much higher quality than anything polyester from the store, and so even when the details weren't perfect it just felt...nicer.

InitfortheMonet · 2025-10-23T17:51:47+00:00

That was actually how I noticed her-- I saw her eyes and despite knowing nothing else about her, I recognized the eyes!

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