I got my schedule today for my next (and second-last!!) semester. While all the classes are scheduled where I expected them (and saw on my online student account), the instructor we were told we were getting for one of the major, major classes is not teaching us.
And I'm more than a little pissed off about that!
Apparently, the guy we have is a horrible, horrible instructor. In fact, he's so horrible, we heard from other instructors last semester that he was probably gone before we ever had a chance to suffer through a semester with him.
Seems that's not true. Dammit.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
What's a month between friends?
Anything like a month between posts?
Hmmm..... must've been busy, yes?
YES.
I'm now 2/3 through the diploma program and only have 6 months to go until I'm finally done. It's a little freaky to think of where I need to be (mentally and physically) in half a year. Yeek! But I'm working on it.
I just re-read my last couple of posts and noticed I never updated what happened with my presentation in February.
Well, I hated it, but apparently the faculty were impressed with what they saw. I did this really cool powerpoint presentation and when I got to the room, I discovered I was loading it up on a single computer and everyone would crowd around the monitor to 'watch' the presentation. It was a "when spoken to" type of presentation and I was expected only to answer questions and react to critiques. So, yeah, I wasn't impressed.
But, as I said, they saw something they liked and encouraged me to change part of my plan and head in a new-ish direction. The direction still leads to the same outcome (in an eventual promotion at a job --which was always part of the plan), but the new direction just makes it easier. Fine by me!
There won't be a "have" class and a "have not" class as our group will apparently be much smaller next semester. I know of 2 people dropping back to part-time (and won't be part of our graduating project work) and one person (whom I've mentioned previously as dragging down the rest of the class) is 65% sure he's quitting completely. (Yay!)
There should be 25-28 of us in one class and a majority of those people are pushing me to be the lead. They're joined by the 3 faculty that 'supervise' our work, ensuring that we're meeting our goals. All 3 have looked to me over the past month as the "go-to guy" for the entire program, which will definitely help with getting a kick-ass job once I finish school. All I have to do is continue to work my butt off. (although one instructor let it slip that within 5 years I could be making over $120K --I could handle that!)
Hmmm..... must've been busy, yes?
YES.
I'm now 2/3 through the diploma program and only have 6 months to go until I'm finally done. It's a little freaky to think of where I need to be (mentally and physically) in half a year. Yeek! But I'm working on it.
I just re-read my last couple of posts and noticed I never updated what happened with my presentation in February.
Well, I hated it, but apparently the faculty were impressed with what they saw. I did this really cool powerpoint presentation and when I got to the room, I discovered I was loading it up on a single computer and everyone would crowd around the monitor to 'watch' the presentation. It was a "when spoken to" type of presentation and I was expected only to answer questions and react to critiques. So, yeah, I wasn't impressed.
But, as I said, they saw something they liked and encouraged me to change part of my plan and head in a new-ish direction. The direction still leads to the same outcome (in an eventual promotion at a job --which was always part of the plan), but the new direction just makes it easier. Fine by me!
There won't be a "have" class and a "have not" class as our group will apparently be much smaller next semester. I know of 2 people dropping back to part-time (and won't be part of our graduating project work) and one person (whom I've mentioned previously as dragging down the rest of the class) is 65% sure he's quitting completely. (Yay!)
There should be 25-28 of us in one class and a majority of those people are pushing me to be the lead. They're joined by the 3 faculty that 'supervise' our work, ensuring that we're meeting our goals. All 3 have looked to me over the past month as the "go-to guy" for the entire program, which will definitely help with getting a kick-ass job once I finish school. All I have to do is continue to work my butt off. (although one instructor let it slip that within 5 years I could be making over $120K --I could handle that!)
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