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I would have to say that yes it would be nice to see the professors create something and I would also have like other activities. I felt like at points we had too much free time that I didn't know what to do with. Although it was a good experience, and in the end I did enjoy it I would have like more ideas to do together.

raquette lake was great for one reason and one reason only. CHAVE. I dont know where i would be now if i did not meet the beautiful unicorn known as chave. And i guess what everyone else said makes sense too. i would also like to thank all the professors _ pause_ thank you.

I have to agree with everyone else, I would have liked to see the professors create something. It'd be nice to see what they would create under the same conditions Other than that I wouldn't change anything. I think it was a great bonding experience and should be done yearly with the art department. I feel like we all wouldn't have been as close during the semester if we wouldn't have gone.

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I agree with CBrown... if there were one thing to add/change about the Raquette Lake trip it would be for the professors to make a piece of art in the woods as well. It is not often that we get to see or hear them talk about work that they made on a personal level. And I think that would be a great opportunity for that.

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Being up there was really fun even though i didn't catch a fish i guess it's ok. I don't think i would change much at all the experience was really great and it helped me to get to know people in the art department. I would say to change something is the interaction between prof's and students while we were building our art of nature. I would say that everyone should have jumped in the water it was very refreshing.

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I had a really great time going to Raquette lake. I thought the whole experience was beautiful and would honestly change very little. I really enjoyed getting to know everyone better. Its kind of odd that the more you value a friendship with someone the more you trust and respect their opinions on your own work. I liked that it allowed everyone to removed themselves a bit from their own work and start something completely new. On the other hand, I loved seeing everyones sketches, maybe if everyone brought pictures or something of a few things they are working on there could be sort of an open critique. This could also set the tone for more open critiques throughout the year....Just a thought. I hope everyone has a great winter break! :)

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Raquette lake was definitely an experience. i definitely enjoyed all the free time that we had at night and on sunday, it was definitely a time to enjoy each other's company and get to know those students you didn't already know. i loved being able to become a part of the environment with our earthworks that we created. i would have liked to see the professors become more involved, perhaps if they formed a group themselves, or each of the professors were assigned one of our groups. they could've maybe given an in process critique to each group they were assigned to in between the work sessions. besides that, i really don't see how much more the weekend could have improved. i am not the outdoors type of girl, and i wasn't exactly looking forward to the weekend, and i really don't have anything negative to say about the weekend. (afterall, we were supposed to be thinking postive the whole weekend, right? no negativity!)

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I loved going to Raquette lake with everyone. It was such a bonding experience for me and I hope it still happens in the future. There is only one thing that could be changed to make it better and that would be to go with a different group besides the leadership group. They did provide so much entertainment for us but I feel that all we did was make fun of each other the whole time. I think that it wasn't the point of the trip to bicker with the other group and then each of us make complete fun of the other. But besides that whole deal I thought it was fun, and don't get me wrong,...I throughly enjoyed making fun of the leadership group because they were so uptight.

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I thought the weekend at Raquette Lake was awesome. I enjoyed the games that we played, especially the drawing game, and I enjoyed the time that we had to ourselves at the end to go paddle boating and kayaking. The time at night for ourselves was really nice too and I think it was a nice little bonding moment for all of us, and we all had a lot of fun. I also loved our environmental piece that we had to do. I really enjoyed my time there so its hard to say how I could have made it better. I thought we had a great group of people and to be there with leadership just ended up being priceless. I think I would have liked to see more Professors join in on making the earth art. I loved Jeremiah's piece and it was really motivating. I think it would have been more interesting if all of the Professors did something, or even if you all just got together in one group and made one piece, like we did in our groups. But I have to say, I do wish we could all go back again for more fun!!!

Thanks everyone and I hope you all have a wonderful winter break!!

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