Meet Cezary Ladocha
B.F.A. in Visual Communication
Around the World and Back Again
You either love New York City or hate it. Moving there from Poland when he was 18, Cezary Ladocha hated it. He stuck it out a few years, but his unhappiness only grew. He was going to school, but felt he was "standing in place." He began to look at returning to Europe and enrolling in an art school there.
"AIU London seemed like the perfect choice. I will end up with a British and an American degree, and that will give me the chance to decide where I would like to stay."
Pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Communication with a concentration in Graphic Design, Cezary no longer feels like he's standing in place. "AIU is a place where you are not just a random student wandering around thinking, 'What am I doing here?' Professors are always there to help you, and when you work hard, whether you have talent or not, professors will see you and push you even harder to develop your skills and talents. There is this friendly relationship with professors where students are not afraid to ask for help or advice."
Cezary finds the professors so helpful, he has problems picking a favorite. "All the professors are experts in their field, and I admire each of them." Cezary does name two-James Gosling in computer graphics and Sven Bylander in graphic design-but goes on to say, "I just mentioned two professors, but I should say something about each of them. That would take too much time, though. All of them are experts and have a good way to pass knowledge on to students."
"The world has always had a hierarchy where rich, poor, educated, and uneducated have had their positions on the social ladder. You can move up or down that ladder, but moving up is extremely difficult and usually requires some sort of token of great value to give you a boost. In my opinion, education is that boost; it lets you start at the center of the ladder. It's automatically easier for you to climb up than for someone without education."
"I could try to succeed in the art world without a college degree but that would be climbing the ladder from the very bottom. I don't want to do that."
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