college life

I chose to take this self-portrait of my friend, who is a college student. He is a Chemical Engineering major in the University of Arizona. I pick the background to be the University of Arizona campus because it clearly says that Aaron is a college student of this school. Furthermore, the portraits shows that he is smiling, which means that he is content with his college life, even though his major is extremely difficult and challenging. This simply implies that even though many college students often stressed out and struggled through difficult classes, they often find time to be happy such as hanging out with their friends, or go to certain social events to have fun. Nevertheless, students often study late and lack hours of sleep, but yet they still have a huge amount of energy when it comes to having fun. This self-portrait also means that college moment are the most challenging and happy moment in people’s lives because college moment is between fully adulthood in the real world and carefree childhood in the high school world. College years are the years that many people make new friends and companions as well as learning many skill sets such as improving creativity and problem solving skills before they are set off to the real world. Plus, they are also the years where many students are often in search of themselves as well as developing into an adult. Furthermore, the portrait implies that college years are the moment many students will become independent person with the knowledge they learned in order to go off to the real working world where they would have a lot of responsibilities. Therefore, college days are the most joyful and best moments in many students’ lives even though there are many challenges within those days. That is why many graduates, who are in the real world often, say that they miss being in school and carefree or hate working. That is the meaning of this self-portrait.