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1. Take a photography class.
I'm trying, I'm trying real hard, I really am.
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mzrowan announced that she'd signed up for a photography class this fall. I was so surprised that the class actually fit into my schedule these two months that before I knew it, I had signed up for it too. Bonus!
I was even more surprised when she discovered, almost by accident, that we have homework before the class even begins. Wow. Okay. Well, glad she noticed so that we could be prepared!
Then we got email from the instructor yesterday. He just discovered that he has a scheduling conflict on Thursdays and cannot teach on that day after all. We should all write to him in the next 24 hours and let him know which days we cannot make class, so he can find one that works for the most people.
Not so cool, but okay. Mistakes happen, right? I email him my limitations.
Voicemail this morning. Apparently he didn't get my email. Class has been rescheduled for Tuesdays, starting on the 22nd. I am committed on Tuesday, September 22nd for First Responder training.
Now, I think I could actually safely miss this first responder class -- there's a make-up session scheduled in October, and so far classes have really been kind of information-light anyway. But I'm already so cranky that I really don't want to bend on principle.
Other warning signs: his mail with directions to the class session say, please don't arrive too early, because the studio is too small for "hanging-out" space, and also that he expects to start the first class precisely on time, so please be punctual. Dude! It's a little much to ask people to be punctual but also not to arrive too early!
Here's the topper, for me. We're supposed to get our books before the first class starts, and (I think) even have completed the first reading assignment. But the course syllabus doesn't even appear to list the titles of the books we're supposed to have!
I have sent him email that I think is reasonably polite but firm: is there a possibility of a make-up session for the September 22 class? And can you please clarify which books we are supposed to get and what we should have completed before the first session?
I really don't want to give up on this, and there's a part of me that's hoping that his apparently total logistical flakiness is because he's a really brilliant guy and a fantastic instructor. But the rest of me keeps asking, "Say WHAT now?"
I'm trying, I'm trying real hard, I really am.
mzrowan announced that she'd signed up for a photography class this fall. I was so surprised that the class actually fit into my schedule these two months that before I knew it, I had signed up for it too. Bonus!I was even more surprised when she discovered, almost by accident, that we have homework before the class even begins. Wow. Okay. Well, glad she noticed so that we could be prepared!
Then we got email from the instructor yesterday. He just discovered that he has a scheduling conflict on Thursdays and cannot teach on that day after all. We should all write to him in the next 24 hours and let him know which days we cannot make class, so he can find one that works for the most people.
Not so cool, but okay. Mistakes happen, right? I email him my limitations.
Voicemail this morning. Apparently he didn't get my email. Class has been rescheduled for Tuesdays, starting on the 22nd. I am committed on Tuesday, September 22nd for First Responder training.
Now, I think I could actually safely miss this first responder class -- there's a make-up session scheduled in October, and so far classes have really been kind of information-light anyway. But I'm already so cranky that I really don't want to bend on principle.
Other warning signs: his mail with directions to the class session say, please don't arrive too early, because the studio is too small for "hanging-out" space, and also that he expects to start the first class precisely on time, so please be punctual. Dude! It's a little much to ask people to be punctual but also not to arrive too early!
Here's the topper, for me. We're supposed to get our books before the first class starts, and (I think) even have completed the first reading assignment. But the course syllabus doesn't even appear to list the titles of the books we're supposed to have!
I have sent him email that I think is reasonably polite but firm: is there a possibility of a make-up session for the September 22 class? And can you please clarify which books we are supposed to get and what we should have completed before the first session?
I really don't want to give up on this, and there's a part of me that's hoping that his apparently total logistical flakiness is because he's a really brilliant guy and a fantastic instructor. But the rest of me keeps asking, "Say WHAT now?"
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If you're interested, but you don't want to actually enroll, I also have all of the class materials screen-scraped from when I took the class. :)
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I hope it works out well. He's clearly going to be a frustrating instructor, but as you say, you can't tell yet if he'll also be a good one.
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His powerpoint presentations, believe it or not, are worse.
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Does he assume that everyone has a digital camera? *Does* everyone have a digital camera?
Most importantly, can you get your fees back if end up dropping the class?
FYI, the fact that the class meets at a time that doesn't work for you, doesn't mean he didn't get your email. That time may have been the least inconvenient for the group as a whole.
I hope this, or something like it, works out for you.
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DrWex too
Re: DrWex too
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His lectures are disorganized and sprawling. He is ditzy and particular to a disturbing degree, and has no ability to run a class.
There is some useful knowledge hidden in his brain -- he'll let tantalizing glimpses out, and occasionally focus on you, without malice, long enough to give you a good piece of advice. But that's the exception, not the rule. He will not give you a useful syllabus, he strictly does not accept questions during his lectures-with-hideous-powerpoint (except when he does), he'll scold you for showing him more than two 8x10 prints in class (just after drooling over 5 of someone else's),...
Get a refund -- and leave a bad review -- while you can.
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Seriously, thanks for the heads up. Going to call it in tomorrow...
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