The Great Multi-Tasking Incident - by Ryan C
Last year I attended classes at Cal State LA the Conservatory of Fine Arts. Each week we would get a new teacher and a new type of art. One time we had this teacher named Ms. Greta, who in fact had a Hansel and Gretel type of accent. We had to draw a picture of an ancient African mask with charcoal, which is my favorite medium because of how easy it smudges and shades.
Well I sat down with my three best friends from the class and we just had a discussion about the art and we talked about other things we had done in real life, but the fact is that we were talking and that bugged Greta a bit. So she told us over and over, “You need to stop talking, you won’t get you work done!” But we knew that we WERE getting it done and that even if we talked we could still finish everything that was required.
But still we talked on and she complained on, until finally I was almost done. She walked over to prove to us that talking affects our work, but when she got there she said, “Stop talk… wow, your good at multi-tasking!” And that is when I realized that good work can get you out of trouble!
She took my picture right then and hung it up on the board as an example of good work. My friends laughed because they had said earlier that I was good at working while talking because my picture was well drawn. Thus I had rendered the teacher speechless which made me proud. It was a real turning point in the program for me.