It's the Same Every Year
Another course finished, yay! o/
So glad Black & White is over.
It was completely awkward when the prof promoted the fact that she's teaching the Advanced Explorations course next year and telling us to take the course while half of us are just looking at each other going 'Uh...' because we despise the fact that she's going to teach the course and are tempted to do a petition to stop her from teaching it. Some of us may end up taking no matter who teaches because like, want/need that course, but I'm hoping I can avoid it at this rate. I don't want to suffer another year with her. It really depends on what's being offered next year though and how it fits with my schedule.
//checks school's website// Oh wait, huh, the schedule for next year has been uploaded!
Ugh, this is really awkward. Education course I knew it was going to be on Monday, so no change to that, and likely doing the session from 11:30-14:30. Then teaching is on Wednesday.
The problem is Visual Art courses. As the concurrent program is annoying, I have to take 12 credits (two full year courses) in order to keep myself in the concurrent program. Doesn't matter if I just need 6 more credits to graduate. I still have to pay an extra $1000+ no matter what.
If I want to avoid Advanced Explorations (which is on Thursday mornings), I have two photography courses I can take which are Light and Studio and some course called The Constructed Image (upgraded from second to third year course) so probably working with set-ups and all, and both courses are on Tuesdays, one in the Fall semester, one in Winter. Which isn't that bad, but both courses touch on themes/topics I don't really deal with in my photography. Like, yes, I've set stuff up to take photos of so that was constructed, but it really depends on how inspired I am. I'm not good at working with people in my photos. Plus, the Constructed course wants me to have a DSLR. Uh...I still don't have one yet? Why is it necessary? Also, well, it does say it needs the digital photography course which I never took as a pre-req, so unless I get that requirement waived...
It doesn't seem like I have left myself much of an option except to take Advanced Explorations, but I honestly don't want to suffer another year with that prof. She already said she wants to start the course off with working with strobes, and I'm just going '...' and thinking, let me do stuff my own pace and if you say for our first project we're required to work with strobe, I will strangle someone. I worry if she'll let us to do all independent projects or not because it'd be stupid if we still have work with given themes in a fourth year course.
Next, is think of what to do with the remaining 6 credits. Japanese has a scheduling problem. The fourth year course is set for Mondays and Wednesdays from 16:30-18:30. One, it's late in the afternoon, icky. Two, Wednesday again, is teaching day. While technically speaking it's after school ends, I can't guarantee getting to class on time and why on earth should I bother going back to York for only two hours after a full day of teaching? Do I want to kill myself or something? It'd be extremely stupid too if the school I'll be teaching at ends up to be extremely close to home. Would be waste of bus tickets and stuff. It's the same thing if I want to take Japanese Music and learn to play the koto or something. It's at 19:00 or 19:30, can't quite remember, on Wednesdays for 90 minutes, for the whole year. Seriously? Nooooo, as much as I want to learn how to play the koto.
There's this Independent Reading and Research course for Japanese as well, but only 3 credits. It requires meetings with the prof and I wonder how set is the schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17:30 for 90 minutes. That'd be kind of awkward...depending on which photography course(s) I end up taking.
Ugh, everything is just awkward, damnit.
Why can't there be a year where I have no scheduling problems whatsoever?
I'm going to be plagued by this problem for a while...
So glad Black & White is over.
It was completely awkward when the prof promoted the fact that she's teaching the Advanced Explorations course next year and telling us to take the course while half of us are just looking at each other going 'Uh...' because we despise the fact that she's going to teach the course and are tempted to do a petition to stop her from teaching it. Some of us may end up taking no matter who teaches because like, want/need that course, but I'm hoping I can avoid it at this rate. I don't want to suffer another year with her. It really depends on what's being offered next year though and how it fits with my schedule.
//checks school's website// Oh wait, huh, the schedule for next year has been uploaded!
Ugh, this is really awkward. Education course I knew it was going to be on Monday, so no change to that, and likely doing the session from 11:30-14:30. Then teaching is on Wednesday.
The problem is Visual Art courses. As the concurrent program is annoying, I have to take 12 credits (two full year courses) in order to keep myself in the concurrent program. Doesn't matter if I just need 6 more credits to graduate. I still have to pay an extra $1000+ no matter what.
If I want to avoid Advanced Explorations (which is on Thursday mornings), I have two photography courses I can take which are Light and Studio and some course called The Constructed Image (upgraded from second to third year course) so probably working with set-ups and all, and both courses are on Tuesdays, one in the Fall semester, one in Winter. Which isn't that bad, but both courses touch on themes/topics I don't really deal with in my photography. Like, yes, I've set stuff up to take photos of so that was constructed, but it really depends on how inspired I am. I'm not good at working with people in my photos. Plus, the Constructed course wants me to have a DSLR. Uh...I still don't have one yet? Why is it necessary? Also, well, it does say it needs the digital photography course which I never took as a pre-req, so unless I get that requirement waived...
It doesn't seem like I have left myself much of an option except to take Advanced Explorations, but I honestly don't want to suffer another year with that prof. She already said she wants to start the course off with working with strobes, and I'm just going '...' and thinking, let me do stuff my own pace and if you say for our first project we're required to work with strobe, I will strangle someone. I worry if she'll let us to do all independent projects or not because it'd be stupid if we still have work with given themes in a fourth year course.
Next, is think of what to do with the remaining 6 credits. Japanese has a scheduling problem. The fourth year course is set for Mondays and Wednesdays from 16:30-18:30. One, it's late in the afternoon, icky. Two, Wednesday again, is teaching day. While technically speaking it's after school ends, I can't guarantee getting to class on time and why on earth should I bother going back to York for only two hours after a full day of teaching? Do I want to kill myself or something? It'd be extremely stupid too if the school I'll be teaching at ends up to be extremely close to home. Would be waste of bus tickets and stuff. It's the same thing if I want to take Japanese Music and learn to play the koto or something. It's at 19:00 or 19:30, can't quite remember, on Wednesdays for 90 minutes, for the whole year. Seriously? Nooooo, as much as I want to learn how to play the koto.
There's this Independent Reading and Research course for Japanese as well, but only 3 credits. It requires meetings with the prof and I wonder how set is the schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays from 17:30 for 90 minutes. That'd be kind of awkward...depending on which photography course(s) I end up taking.
Ugh, everything is just awkward, damnit.
Why can't there be a year where I have no scheduling problems whatsoever?
I'm going to be plagued by this problem for a while...