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Been going to classes for a week
3 years ago
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That place needs to get its shit together.
The HTML instructor's like "Okay so let's open Sublime Text for our text editor..."
Me: "Uh...it would appear the school's no longer paying for that, according to this message I got when clicking on the shortcut."
Instructor: "Oh...well, Notepad++ it is."
*BONUS*
Instructor: "Yeah normally this class is only for 24 students but demand was so high and the room is physically large enough that we went ahead and allowed 30 into the class, so there might not be enough computers or chairs but that's okay because some of you will drop out in a few weeks."
Then in my Animate 1 class...
Dorky Animation Teacher Who Is Disappointingly Not Gay Just Dorky: "Okay so let's all open Adobe Animate!"
Class: "Uh...it's saying we need a password that none of us have."
DATWIDNGJD: "Oh, well then...just try and remember it. And no homework I guess."
*BONUS*
DATWIDNGJD: Here's some popular animated shows that were made on Adobe Animate!
Me: Oh, so THAT'S why modern animation is so terrible and cheap looking! I mean, I always said it LOOKED like cheap Flash animation, didn't realize it really WAS cheap flash animation. Thanks for normalizing that as acceptable quality, everybody.
But by far the biggest bullshit of the trio...
Online-Only Web Animation Class Instructor: "So since Flash doesn't exist anymore, we're gonna be doing our assignments on a program called Hype. The only drawback is that it requires a Mac to use, but if you don't have a Mac just make time to come into the campus and use the computer lab Macs when it's not being used."
Me: Fucking WHAT?! In order to do your assignments, a niche piece of hardware that I'm guessing almost none of us poor ass students at this community college/trade school have because it's both expensive and also who wants a fucking Mac other than pretentious weirdos, is required to pass the class? This class that's supposed to be online-only and asynchronous? And you think it's acceptable practice to say that we have to come in every week to use the computers there? And do you also expect us to watch the entire hour and a half worth of instructor videos there, too? In between the time that lab is used for classes? And at no point did "Mac Computer" make it onto the RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT LIST ON THE FUCKING PROGRAM REQUIREMENT GUIDE??? So you're saying this class is ABSOLUTELY on-campus if you're poor? Sure, I can drop $400 on a reburbished 6-year old Macbook which is frankly too small to be doing imaging projects with but what about your students who can't? No wonder you sent out that email about how so many of us hadn't done the project yet, THEY DON'T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT THEY NEED BECAUSE YOU SPRANG IT ON US LITERALLY THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS, FUCK.
So that dude's my mortal enemy.
That's 3 for 3 classes in which something was fucked up, either a little or a fuckton. I look forward to continuing this streak later today when I go in for my second Web Design class.
The HTML instructor's like "Okay so let's open Sublime Text for our text editor..."
Me: "Uh...it would appear the school's no longer paying for that, according to this message I got when clicking on the shortcut."
Instructor: "Oh...well, Notepad++ it is."
*BONUS*
Instructor: "Yeah normally this class is only for 24 students but demand was so high and the room is physically large enough that we went ahead and allowed 30 into the class, so there might not be enough computers or chairs but that's okay because some of you will drop out in a few weeks."
Then in my Animate 1 class...
Dorky Animation Teacher Who Is Disappointingly Not Gay Just Dorky: "Okay so let's all open Adobe Animate!"
Class: "Uh...it's saying we need a password that none of us have."
DATWIDNGJD: "Oh, well then...just try and remember it. And no homework I guess."
*BONUS*
DATWIDNGJD: Here's some popular animated shows that were made on Adobe Animate!
Me: Oh, so THAT'S why modern animation is so terrible and cheap looking! I mean, I always said it LOOKED like cheap Flash animation, didn't realize it really WAS cheap flash animation. Thanks for normalizing that as acceptable quality, everybody.
But by far the biggest bullshit of the trio...
Online-Only Web Animation Class Instructor: "So since Flash doesn't exist anymore, we're gonna be doing our assignments on a program called Hype. The only drawback is that it requires a Mac to use, but if you don't have a Mac just make time to come into the campus and use the computer lab Macs when it's not being used."
Me: Fucking WHAT?! In order to do your assignments, a niche piece of hardware that I'm guessing almost none of us poor ass students at this community college/trade school have because it's both expensive and also who wants a fucking Mac other than pretentious weirdos, is required to pass the class? This class that's supposed to be online-only and asynchronous? And you think it's acceptable practice to say that we have to come in every week to use the computers there? And do you also expect us to watch the entire hour and a half worth of instructor videos there, too? In between the time that lab is used for classes? And at no point did "Mac Computer" make it onto the RECOMMENDED EQUIPMENT LIST ON THE FUCKING PROGRAM REQUIREMENT GUIDE??? So you're saying this class is ABSOLUTELY on-campus if you're poor? Sure, I can drop $400 on a reburbished 6-year old Macbook which is frankly too small to be doing imaging projects with but what about your students who can't? No wonder you sent out that email about how so many of us hadn't done the project yet, THEY DON'T HAVE THE EQUIPMENT THEY NEED BECAUSE YOU SPRANG IT ON US LITERALLY THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS, FUCK.
So that dude's my mortal enemy.
That's 3 for 3 classes in which something was fucked up, either a little or a fuckton. I look forward to continuing this streak later today when I go in for my second Web Design class.
Of course, that doesn't help when you're dealing with school computers where you most likely can't install anything yourself.
Regardless, here was my answer for the 4th item:
4 - Give one other strategy, which is not listed above, to use to help you stay on task and get the most out of this
class. If you are a gamer, please let me know how your strategy to keep class time and game time separate.
In what will overwhelmingly prove to be the most pivotal action I've taken in the pursuit of success in this course, I purchased a Macbook, despite it being glaringly omitted from the "Recommended Equipment" list on the Program Requirements Guide, considering that it's literally required for the class. This allows me to do the assignments at my convenience, rather than requiring me to commute to the campus to utilize the Mac systems there, which I would have almost certainly procrastinated on doing on a weekly basis, assuming I made it in at all.
This is the watered down version after my sister talked me down from the cliff.
Took you this long to realize? How cheap it looks depends on how much you leave for the computer to tween between keys and how much you redraw yourself for each key. I'm you can imagine what most productions do (hint, it's not "more work"). Instead of sending the between frames to sweatshops, they now give it to the program to fill out.
tl;dr I figured they just weren't trying. Which I guess is still true.