Procrastination and Painting gripe
May. 23rd, 2002 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriI should be making lunch and then finish putting away the rest of my junk. But I'm not.
Gonna complain about my Painting grade instead.
I hated this class, if you recall. And yes, I didn't apply myself 100%. It was probably closer to 60% at the beginning of the semester, increasing to about 110% by the last day. So, yeah, okay, I would understand if she hated my paintings (which I think she did because they were not in her preferred style) and especially if they were bad. At the review, she told me that she wanted to keep three of them for a show next semester. Here are two of the three:
The third one was a small canvas that I used to wipe my extra paint on. She thought that was my best work. Whatever. These two she didn't like, but I thought the drone (right image) was pretty cool:
She gave me a C. Now, that's fine, really, because I thought I was going to fail. The thing that irks me is that she wanted three of my painting for a stupid show. So what the hell?? I talked to my advisor and he suggested that if I really had a problem, then there was an appeal process that I could follow. I don't think I'm ready to go that far, but we'll see. I think I'm about to write her a little e-mail asking her why I got a C. If she says attendance, that's fine, I can live with that. But if she says the quality of my work, I will be really pissed.
I admit that I missed a few classes. Okay, more than a few. But everytime I went into that room I got nauseous and my throat swelled up. So, that's a valid reason I think. Besides, I spent so much time there after classes and on weekends, it's not even funny. Plus, it's not like she's even in class most of the time. She's in her office or not in her office, in which case no one knows where the hell she is. And one time she had the nerve to write "not in studio, in comp art lab" next to my name on the attendance sheet. What. The. Fuck. Yes, I was in there, I won't deny it, but I was looking for the TA, who is sometimes in the lab. In fact, 30 seconds later I went to her friggin office to ask her where the TA was, to which she answers that the TA wasn't here because she had given her the day off. Okay, that was total lie, becaue I had seen the TA 10 minutes beforehand and asked her to help me stretch some canvas.
Not for nothing, but there was a lot of shit in that class. Literally and figuratively. Some girl smeared paint in a swirly pattern on a round canvas and she loved that. Another one cut out pieces of paper and glued it to a canvas then painted random brush strokes. She loved that crap, too. Mind you, the student did this on purpose to show that the prof loves crap over hard work. Some other girl painted yellow happy faces. Yellow frelling happy faces.
And another thing.. she doesn't teach! I've talked to other students in the class and they agree. Her assignments are unclear and her instruction is shoddy at best. No one knows what the hell she is talking about half the time and when you ask, she doesn't elaborate. I asked her for her help and opinion several times in the beginning, but she was so confusing and unhelpful that I eventually stopped asking and just started painting my own stuff. Another girl I know asked for help with blue flowers she was painting, and next thing you know, the prof painted orange streaks straight on the canvas, not even following the shape of the flowers. Orange, people, orange! It's a shame the bitca didn't even hand out the SPI comment forms because I know a large handful of people who would have blasted her - including me.
If I'm still annoyed next week, I'll file a complaint. If not, then I'll just get over it. Never, ever will I take another class with the psycho again. I shouldn't have taken this one. My own stupidity at work, I guess.
Gonna complain about my Painting grade instead.
I hated this class, if you recall. And yes, I didn't apply myself 100%. It was probably closer to 60% at the beginning of the semester, increasing to about 110% by the last day. So, yeah, okay, I would understand if she hated my paintings (which I think she did because they were not in her preferred style) and especially if they were bad. At the review, she told me that she wanted to keep three of them for a show next semester. Here are two of the three:
The third one was a small canvas that I used to wipe my extra paint on. She thought that was my best work. Whatever. These two she didn't like, but I thought the drone (right image) was pretty cool:
She gave me a C. Now, that's fine, really, because I thought I was going to fail. The thing that irks me is that she wanted three of my painting for a stupid show. So what the hell?? I talked to my advisor and he suggested that if I really had a problem, then there was an appeal process that I could follow. I don't think I'm ready to go that far, but we'll see. I think I'm about to write her a little e-mail asking her why I got a C. If she says attendance, that's fine, I can live with that. But if she says the quality of my work, I will be really pissed.
I admit that I missed a few classes. Okay, more than a few. But everytime I went into that room I got nauseous and my throat swelled up. So, that's a valid reason I think. Besides, I spent so much time there after classes and on weekends, it's not even funny. Plus, it's not like she's even in class most of the time. She's in her office or not in her office, in which case no one knows where the hell she is. And one time she had the nerve to write "not in studio, in comp art lab" next to my name on the attendance sheet. What. The. Fuck. Yes, I was in there, I won't deny it, but I was looking for the TA, who is sometimes in the lab. In fact, 30 seconds later I went to her friggin office to ask her where the TA was, to which she answers that the TA wasn't here because she had given her the day off. Okay, that was total lie, becaue I had seen the TA 10 minutes beforehand and asked her to help me stretch some canvas.
Not for nothing, but there was a lot of shit in that class. Literally and figuratively. Some girl smeared paint in a swirly pattern on a round canvas and she loved that. Another one cut out pieces of paper and glued it to a canvas then painted random brush strokes. She loved that crap, too. Mind you, the student did this on purpose to show that the prof loves crap over hard work. Some other girl painted yellow happy faces. Yellow frelling happy faces.
And another thing.. she doesn't teach! I've talked to other students in the class and they agree. Her assignments are unclear and her instruction is shoddy at best. No one knows what the hell she is talking about half the time and when you ask, she doesn't elaborate. I asked her for her help and opinion several times in the beginning, but she was so confusing and unhelpful that I eventually stopped asking and just started painting my own stuff. Another girl I know asked for help with blue flowers she was painting, and next thing you know, the prof painted orange streaks straight on the canvas, not even following the shape of the flowers. Orange, people, orange! It's a shame the bitca didn't even hand out the SPI comment forms because I know a large handful of people who would have blasted her - including me.
If I'm still annoyed next week, I'll file a complaint. If not, then I'll just get over it. Never, ever will I take another class with the psycho again. I shouldn't have taken this one. My own stupidity at work, I guess.
