well, wasn't this a lovely day.

i found out that, due to economic problems, my school isn't accepting any more new students. they had to lay off (to put it some way) 15 new students (who had already paid for their enrollment, by the way) and are now trying to relocate them to other art schools so that they don't lose their money, and possibly a year of studies. we (second years and up) were worrying that the school would close for good and leave us in the cold, but apparently it's going to stay open so that we can get our degrees, at least.

even with that reassurance, the situation looks a bit dire. i don't know if this is going to get better or worse for us, if i should start considering changing schools AGAIN next year, i don't know if the teachers' attitudes, commitment, etc. is going to change and affect us, since there are so few of us left (there are only 5 people in my year now after the majority dropped out last year) some of them they might just leave, i don't know if i'll be able to retake a 1st-year class i dropped last semester, which i need to pass to graduate, etc etc.

the university my art school belongs to is dependent of the main university of the same name in santiago, but they suck ALL the money and they pretty much ignore us, our problems and demands. they have everything there, equipment, materials, space--we don't. and now this. why didn't they warn the first years that this could happen? was it really *that* last-minute? i still haven't found out everything, but i want to. this fucking sucks.