Life comes at you fast.
I find my time crammed lately.
The sad thing is, it's mostly for one class. Intro to Communication Design...(say it ominously in your head) It's sad because I'd really like to enjoy the class, but I just can't. It's not part of my schedule, it IS my schedule. I want to like the teacher -- I can tell he's an intelligent man and I think he probably has really good ideas -- but it's hard to like him because he's very serious all of the time and he's very much into "tough love". He also has completely unrealistic ideas of how long things "should" take us to do and how much time we have available to do work for his class...ie, he treats his class like it's the only thing we have to do in life, and I'm not exaggerating. Most of the class has stated that they can't spend as much time on other classes because they're too busy doing work for his class, cuz if you fail it you basically have to wait another year before you can turn in a sophomore portfolio (which no sane person wants to do, really). I have a feeling this teacher would make a much more effective 2nd or 3rd year teacher, but as a 1st year teacher, he's enough to turn people off of graphic design completely if they're not wholly invested in it.
I'm also taking a computer graphics and design course, which I like a lot more. The teacher in that class is much more interested in us learning how to do things properly than in due dates. Some people in the class are still working on the first homework assignment, even, and she's okay with that as long as they're understanding how the program works. I really would like to put a lot more effort into her class, but I don't really have a lot of time to spare from the other one.
So my school life has gotten a whole lot busier, but the rest of my life has come to a standstill. I haven't been caring as much about work lately. I've cut my hours down to 30-32 per week, but I'm getting to the point where I'd seriously consider taking out a bigger loan and just quitting work entirely so I could get school out of the way faster. I'm really getting tired of the whole working student routine. I mean, yeah, it wasn't a bad idea, but deep down I'm terribly impatient. :) That, and I'm probably not going to have a job after March 18th...my boss hasn't said whether or not her bosses were okay with the intern idea, but she just got a couple of new temps and she hasn't had the time to come tell me what she's planning, so I have decided to assume they're there to eventually make it so my work can be passed along to someone else when I have to leave. Oddly, I'm not sad about it.
The sad thing is, it's mostly for one class. Intro to Communication Design...(say it ominously in your head) It's sad because I'd really like to enjoy the class, but I just can't. It's not part of my schedule, it IS my schedule. I want to like the teacher -- I can tell he's an intelligent man and I think he probably has really good ideas -- but it's hard to like him because he's very serious all of the time and he's very much into "tough love". He also has completely unrealistic ideas of how long things "should" take us to do and how much time we have available to do work for his class...ie, he treats his class like it's the only thing we have to do in life, and I'm not exaggerating. Most of the class has stated that they can't spend as much time on other classes because they're too busy doing work for his class, cuz if you fail it you basically have to wait another year before you can turn in a sophomore portfolio (which no sane person wants to do, really). I have a feeling this teacher would make a much more effective 2nd or 3rd year teacher, but as a 1st year teacher, he's enough to turn people off of graphic design completely if they're not wholly invested in it.
I'm also taking a computer graphics and design course, which I like a lot more. The teacher in that class is much more interested in us learning how to do things properly than in due dates. Some people in the class are still working on the first homework assignment, even, and she's okay with that as long as they're understanding how the program works. I really would like to put a lot more effort into her class, but I don't really have a lot of time to spare from the other one.
So my school life has gotten a whole lot busier, but the rest of my life has come to a standstill. I haven't been caring as much about work lately. I've cut my hours down to 30-32 per week, but I'm getting to the point where I'd seriously consider taking out a bigger loan and just quitting work entirely so I could get school out of the way faster. I'm really getting tired of the whole working student routine. I mean, yeah, it wasn't a bad idea, but deep down I'm terribly impatient. :) That, and I'm probably not going to have a job after March 18th...my boss hasn't said whether or not her bosses were okay with the intern idea, but she just got a couple of new temps and she hasn't had the time to come tell me what she's planning, so I have decided to assume they're there to eventually make it so my work can be passed along to someone else when I have to leave. Oddly, I'm not sad about it.