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Miranda: Dec 24, 2004; Not a cuttlefish.

Horrible Smutbeast posted:

My school is apparently one of the best for art in the world, but recently they decided that students don't actually need teachers or class time pffft. All our core classes are less than 2 hours long now with one teacher per subject for well over 100 students. No teacher's aids or assistants either. There's an internship we have to take in one year that is 3 months long, but we might not get paid for it. If we don't do it, we can't get our degree/pass. I've also discovered that in the 4 years here, you actually start learning anything of worth in 3rd year where one of the teacher starts at the beginning again and reteaches you everything because the first two years were taught wrong.

But hey we got new computers!!! NEW COMPUTERS GUYS.

SCAD?

Irish Joe posted:

Took an exam today and one of the questions had the most ridiculous set of answers I have ever seen:

For so-and-so to do such-and-such a thing is
A. not uncommon.
B. extremely common.
C. common.
D. the norm.

Man, that's as bad as nursing school questions! Where all answers are correct but one answer is slightly more correct than the others!

Spalec posted:

I'm not in college but my wife is and the amount she spends on textbooks is ridiculous, every course needs at least one $60+ book (normally written by the professor, nice way to forcibly sell your book and make some cash!).

Is that the normal in the US/Canada? I went to university in the UK and I bought maybe 5 textbooks my entire degree, none of which were compulsory. 2nd year onwards we mostly used scientific journals which we could at least access freely at university.

Just don't blame your friendly bookstore employees! It's usually the publisher/author responsible for the exorbitant cost, bookstores make most of their money on merch rather than textbooks.

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Miranda: Dec 24, 2004; Not a cuttlefish.

Ketchupface posted:

I go to SCAD and this guy definitely doesn't. The classes are required by the accreditors to be at least 2 and a half hours & you only have to wait one year before you actually get into your core curriculum.

Most my complaints are really petty - SCAD apparently calculated my bill for the next semester during the three days I was waitlisted for a class and informed me of this via a past due notice.

I live on campus because the school takes off 2/3rds scholarship if you don't and tuition is so high that the amount I lose is well over the cost of housing. My dorm is the smallest, was incorrectly advertised as having an oven, and has literally no dedicated parking despite this being against city regulations. Exactly two shuttles visit this dorm (SCAD does not have a singular campus but owns buildins scattered around town and sometimes in sketchy areas, making walking or biking impractical) and neither do so on weekends.

Also, I have three roommates in a two-room dorm and one has literally never stayed the night, one is a furry and the last is in a cult.

The classes are really good though so I'm going to stick it out.

Yeah I go to Armstrong so ya'll SCAD people amuse me. Although because I'm a foreigner everyone thinks I go to SCAD. I've also worked at your bookstore - some of the kids just kill me with their ridiculous behaviour. Also I've been seeing a lot of furries around and I do not like it. I saw a flyer for a furry club at Armstrong, I was scared.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2013 16:40

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