Potential Thesis?

I would be writing this post in hopes of feedback, but since I have no readers, I’m writing it just as a reminder to myself not to forget Mike’s awesome idea. He was wondering if one could print on something knit (particularly screen printing, but I’m imagining gravure…too bad it’s too expensive to ever know!). And I was pondering the characteristics of pilly wool, felted wool, knitted cotton, blends… So Mike says I should go for my Master’s and do this for my thesis. In his words, “it’s something that certainly has a potential business application, it’s printing related, and it’s certainly novel.”

I might actually have to look into this!

Gravure

I have a difficult time explaining my major to people on the outside. I realized while taking a final for my gravure process class (and, by the way, Firefox thinks that “gravure” is a misspelled word) that gravure, flexography, and even substrate don’t mean a whole lot to most people. I know everything has jargon that outsiders won’t know, but at least when I was trying to be a stats major, “math” was a concept everyone could grasp. Oh, you’re a math major – I can understand that. But printing? I can’t explain that to the satisfaction of other people.

It irritates me when friends and coworkers ask me what I’m going to do for a job when everyone switches to e-books. I like to look at them like they’re crazy and mention cereal boxes. But seriously. Print is everywhere. Print is going to be everywhere for a long time. I know it’s not the most popular choice for a potential career, but it’s much less crazy than, say, philosophy, which I like a whole lot more. So stop looking at me that way. And, for the record, I hate trying to read e-books.