2008 Woodie Awards
V-Com student designs her path
Praveen Sathianathan
Issue date: 4/16/07 Section: News
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Many students at Brookhaven College walk through the halls aimlessly trying to find their class. However, for Samantha Nickel, Brookhaven visual communications student, walking through the hallways of the B Building, where the V-Com labs are located, led her to her major and helped develop her passion for graphic design.
How did you decide to study visual communications?
I got a meaningless job in accounting at an advertising company that had a production department. I was able to see what they did there. Also anytime my area needed things drawn they came to me.
After about five years I decided I wanted to pursue something like that and I decided going to Brookhaven was the best solution for me.
When I first started attending Brookhaven in Spring 2005, I didn't know the program existed because it wasn't in the book. I took some art design classes through fine arts. Then one day I walked past Jerry Hill's door and saw the fliers and knew instantly this is exactly what I want. Now the courses are listed in the book.
Why did you decide to attend Brookhaven?
My grandmother lives across the street from Brookhaven, so I have been looking at it all my life. My cousins and I also played on the track when we were younger.
What are your feelings about the Brookhaven visual communications program?
I really love it. The classes are well taught and the program is well funded. I have great professors and I have learned a lot. The classes can be very complicated. We learn things on all levels from drawings of buffalo on walls to learning the latest digital tools.
We also learn all aspects of production such as everything that goes into a magazine. The students were all asking what more is there to learn.
The faculty tells us that the degrees are inverted, which means that we are doing graduate level work now. We all get to know each other very well, it's like a big family.
My only criticism of the program is that the classes are very long (three hours) and it is difficult to cram more than two classes in each day. All the classes are project oriented. It is hard to take 15 hours a semester if you want to finish it in two years.
How did you decide to study visual communications?
I got a meaningless job in accounting at an advertising company that had a production department. I was able to see what they did there. Also anytime my area needed things drawn they came to me.
After about five years I decided I wanted to pursue something like that and I decided going to Brookhaven was the best solution for me.
When I first started attending Brookhaven in Spring 2005, I didn't know the program existed because it wasn't in the book. I took some art design classes through fine arts. Then one day I walked past Jerry Hill's door and saw the fliers and knew instantly this is exactly what I want. Now the courses are listed in the book.
Why did you decide to attend Brookhaven?
My grandmother lives across the street from Brookhaven, so I have been looking at it all my life. My cousins and I also played on the track when we were younger.
What are your feelings about the Brookhaven visual communications program?
I really love it. The classes are well taught and the program is well funded. I have great professors and I have learned a lot. The classes can be very complicated. We learn things on all levels from drawings of buffalo on walls to learning the latest digital tools.
We also learn all aspects of production such as everything that goes into a magazine. The students were all asking what more is there to learn.
The faculty tells us that the degrees are inverted, which means that we are doing graduate level work now. We all get to know each other very well, it's like a big family.
My only criticism of the program is that the classes are very long (three hours) and it is difficult to cram more than two classes in each day. All the classes are project oriented. It is hard to take 15 hours a semester if you want to finish it in two years.
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