Photography Rant
Apr. 28th, 2004 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogRanting because I can and I want too.
I try hard in my classes. Last semester I got an A in photography. Gale is a very understanding teacher.
This semester I have Kevin and the shit just hit the fan.
One, we only get the first two assignments back on the last day of class. These were due months ago! Gale made the turn around quick so that we could resubmit if we weren't happy with the marks we could redo the project.
Damn it Kevin, I can't improve my photography if you tell me what I'm doing wrong on the last day of class! You gave me a word that's near impossible to shoot in a working class town like Thunder Bay. PLUS, you gave me the project in the dead of winter. I freezed my ass off for those pictures.
He goes on the tell me that I should have used the studio for my word assignment. Hmm... yeah right. You told us that you wanted to try to find the photos in the real world if we could. The studio was never offered to us as an option.
Then he burns me for not using a filter. THAT'S BULLSHIT! I used a damn filter, Kevin. I talked to the people at the cage. They gave me a filter for the lighting. Plus, you told me pointblank that I didn't need a filter, that using it would be a bonus and you'd understand. Guess that promise fell through too.
It hurts to see the complete and total piles of shit that gets As in Gales class when I work my ass off to finish everything and get a B and I'm told to be happy with it.
People have some problem that I'm not happy with a B mark. Well, I need good marks. If I don't get a scholarship next year, then there's a good chance that I won't be coming back. Newsflash: I can't afford college, even with the money I raise from work. I need my family to pay a large chunk of the costs and with my sister going to college next year as well... you do the math. Do you know what it's like to go hungry because there's no money on your bank account or your food card and your next paycheck is a week away? Most days I just eat dinner because that's all I can afford. It's not fun.
So STFU and let me whine. And people wonder why I don't like talking about my marks to other students.
I try hard in my classes. Last semester I got an A in photography. Gale is a very understanding teacher.
This semester I have Kevin and the shit just hit the fan.
One, we only get the first two assignments back on the last day of class. These were due months ago! Gale made the turn around quick so that we could resubmit if we weren't happy with the marks we could redo the project.
Damn it Kevin, I can't improve my photography if you tell me what I'm doing wrong on the last day of class! You gave me a word that's near impossible to shoot in a working class town like Thunder Bay. PLUS, you gave me the project in the dead of winter. I freezed my ass off for those pictures.
He goes on the tell me that I should have used the studio for my word assignment. Hmm... yeah right. You told us that you wanted to try to find the photos in the real world if we could. The studio was never offered to us as an option.
Then he burns me for not using a filter. THAT'S BULLSHIT! I used a damn filter, Kevin. I talked to the people at the cage. They gave me a filter for the lighting. Plus, you told me pointblank that I didn't need a filter, that using it would be a bonus and you'd understand. Guess that promise fell through too.
It hurts to see the complete and total piles of shit that gets As in Gales class when I work my ass off to finish everything and get a B and I'm told to be happy with it.
People have some problem that I'm not happy with a B mark. Well, I need good marks. If I don't get a scholarship next year, then there's a good chance that I won't be coming back. Newsflash: I can't afford college, even with the money I raise from work. I need my family to pay a large chunk of the costs and with my sister going to college next year as well... you do the math. Do you know what it's like to go hungry because there's no money on your bank account or your food card and your next paycheck is a week away? Most days I just eat dinner because that's all I can afford. It's not fun.
So STFU and let me whine. And people wonder why I don't like talking about my marks to other students.
