Nice, harsh, e-mails...

So no fire last night. Better stay that way for the rest of the year...

Anyway.. So I was talking to aznearthdragon on the phone last night and then I get the e-mail Brent sent to everyone in the class.. I have to say, it was VERY harsh, lol. I mean, seriously! I will even copy and paste just so everyone can see the harshness.

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all,

as your time at cal poly continues, i expect forward progress from each of you.  each quarter you should set goals for yourself to accomplish in that 10 week period.  lack of doing so will make you lazy and stagnate your education.  each successive quarter this program will be less like high school, that is less hand holding and more responsibility.  the rigor of your projects and your work ethic should increase each quarter.

remember that you are not attending calpoly so that i can have a job, you are here to learn the practice of architecture.  you must be self motivated, care about what you are doing, and prove it to your instructor.  i do not care if you fail at things as long as you give it your best efforts.  you only cheat yourself by producing minimal efforts and expressing flippant attitudes.

as was the case last quarter, minimal efforts will receive minimum grades.  when i ask for 4 drawings, i mean 4 drawings, not 2 and a lame ass excuse.  if your house catches on fire and you have to evacuate, that's a legitimate hardship.  not trying because you don't care isn't.  go fill out an application at mcdonalds now.

in the end, this will all work itself out.  those of you go-getters will learn & hone your craft in school and be on the road to success in design of many sorts.  those of you that would rather blow assignment requirements off, sit in the back and talk during lectures, and generally act like smart-assed children will be CAD monkeys for the former group.  choose now which direction you wish to pursue.

several of you have emailed me questions about formZ already.  i am willing to stay up all night helping those of you that truly want to learn.  if you don't understand, ask, read, search...

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Now, can you say harsh? Especially for a teacher, lol. And you can SO tell he was directing certain parts to people who KNOW who they are. That sitting in the back and talking? Valerie and Rachel. The evacuating thing was this one girl who was in building 9. ((Wish I could have used that excuse too.. but I actually did all four drawings, even if they weren't good...)) Valerie would probably be one of those "blow assignment requirements off" too, seeing as she didn't even TRY to make a path in her drawings and stuff... I hope I wasn't one of the bad people in this 'cause I did try on mine.. It just sucked.

The harshest part to me was the, "i do not care if you fail at things as long as you give it your best efforts.  you only cheat yourself by producing minimal efforts and expressing flippant attitudes" 'cause, I dunno, sometimes you DO try and it doesn't seem like it, I guess.. I know in arch, I try, but I usually just fail everytime. x_x But hopefully he thinks I am trying 'cause I hate being a slacker. I mean, sometimes, yeah, I give up, but I put in hours of effort before I get to that point, so..

That McDonalds thing was very.. I was so ready to crack up at that.. And then Valerie IMed me later asking if I saw the e-mail and said she was gonna change her Facebook status to filling an application at McDonalds. Yeah, she jokes, but she IS one of those don't care whatever people, so..

I gotta get to class now. Until later...


~Remula

Well.. I guess it was about time...

MORNING
Got up this morning around 8:00. Got ready and then then walked to Albertson's to buy milk 'cause yeah.. I needed it. XP Walked all the way back, then ate cereal. After that, it was time to work on my contour drawings. I finished one last night, so I had to do three more. It took forever to do them and they look bad. Like, only one actually turned out good. There was another one where there was an idea, but it didn't turn out the way it was suppose to.. I dunno.. Sucked ass.. Worked for about three or four hours.. Then went to eat lunch.


PHYSICS 141 / HONORS 134
Just talked about vectors in the beginning, then forces and the problems we were suppose to look at.. Pretty boring..


SPEECH COMMUNICATION 101 / HONORS 101
Teacher just lectured.. Then near the end, we had to draw our topic for the object speech from a hat. We're not suppose to let anyone in the class know what we got and yeah.. My first one, I got "wart" and I was like, 'I don't want to do that!', so when it was time to redraw if we wanted to, I did. The teacher read off what we didn't want 'cause we had to give it back to her if we wanted a redraw. My topic now is "Madonna Inn" and yeah. When I saw that, I was thinking, 'Damnit! I should have stuck with wart!' 'cause I'm sure warts could be a more interesting topic than the Madonna Inn.. But whatever.. Have to deal with what I got, I guess... Speech has to be two-three minutes long and you have to have a visual aid. I think I'm just gonna make a collage of the Madonna Inn.. BLAH! It's boring, but whatever.. I don't really want to take the time to go all the way there, but if I can't find enough pictures of the inn online, then I guess I'll just go to take pictures. I'm sure I can get enough information on the internet about the inn.. Hopefully. I'll do my research tomorrow to see if I have to go there on Saturday..

But yeah.. speeches moved up from Thursday and the following Tuesday to this Tuesday and Thursday. And, of course, she HAD to separate by last names and try to be "different" and made the end of the alphabet go first. Oh joy of joys. x_x So Tuesday, I have a speech. I might die. Life is sucking very much right now. =( I'm so scared! And I dunno who to practice on and I suck at speeches and yeah. ;_; Sucks ass.. *sigh*


AFTERWARDS
Went home and scanned all my contour drawing things.. Then I worked forever drawing up two in FormZ, taking a break for dinner in between, but yeah.. Took forever and then I had to make the object and yeah. That did NOT work. I think I worked for two hours or something and it did NOT work. I mean, I seriously have close to nothing and it sucks. I gave up around 9:00 to shower and then yeah.. Cleaned up and got stuff ready for school tomorrow and yeah.. BLEHHH!

School sucks.. It can't have only been an almost week.. I mean, seriously! With all the work and the fires and stuff, it definitely feels like half the quarter's past. x_x Dumb school.. I knew it was only time until the workload equaled out and me getting back to my old sleeping schedule, meaning sleep late and not getting enough. Oh life.. Why must you hate me so? =/

~Remula