Nice, harsh, e-mails...
Jan. 11th, 2007 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
remulaSo no fire last night. Better stay that way for the rest of the year...
Anyway.. So I was talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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
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. ===
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...
===
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
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Date: 2007-01-12 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-12 05:35 am (UTC)I don't mind the tone that much, since I know that it wasn't directed at me specifically, but most likely for the people who don't try in class. I just feel bad for the people who it's directed to, 'cause they have to know it's to them, right? ^_^;;
~Remula
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Date: 2007-01-13 06:54 am (UTC)