[Jewelry making - Article 00212] - Re: [Orchid] Experience with TIJT

[Susannah Garcia]

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Hello,

    TIJT is nationally and internationally known. If you attend, you
    will meet people from all over the country and the world. Yes, Paris
    is "different," it's not quite Deliverance, but it's a cousin to it.
    However, you are only about an hour and a half from Dallas and
    civilization.

    I paid $375 a month in rent, through Nathan Bell Realtors at their
    complex located at 2222 E. Price St. It's close to a grocery store
    and Dairy Queen (every Texas town, no matter the size, has a Dairy
    Queen) and has built up around there quite a bit with shopping
    centers and businesses, and the park across the street has added an
    enormous hamster-tunnel-type playground for the kids. More than when
    I was first there in 98. (We went for a visit last weekend.) My
    apartment was a one bedroom with a fireplace, very roomy, it had a
    patio, and they let me plant a garden, which is still there. (!) 

    An alternative, possibly, is this: you could maybe carpool with
    other students from Dallas. I had a classmate that drove from the
    Greenville area every day, and I've heard that's fairly common for
    the school. You could also room with other students, some of my
    classmates did that, too. Whatever you do, don't live in student
    housing. 

    You will get solid training from TIJT, it's a little like boot camp.
    They keep on top of exactly what the industry needs in jewelers, and
    they teach to the industry. There isn't much (if any) touchy-feely
    artsy stuff. You will learn how to make solid, sturdy and
    well-polished pieces of jewelry. I will say this: they infuriated me
    90% of the time, but I learned the skills I needed to make the
    touchy-feely artsy jewelry I make today. And I can gaurantee that my
    pieces are more solid and better finished than most of the other
    jewelry I've seen in galleries. In six years, I've only gotten one
    piece back for repair. 

    Good luck with your decision, I hope I've helped clarify things for
    you. 

Susannah Page-Garcia
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