Why the hell...
... do these people have to be so #$%@!! difficult?!
Would it kill them to give you a straight answer?
*sigh* I just got through sorting out my 'college experience'. So far, it looks like I'm doing PCC, general studies with a hope of transferring to a more focused school later on.
AI is still a contender, but I'm now also looking at the Pacific NW College of Art and Craft (Portland!), the Northwest College of Art (Washington!) and the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland!).
Why? Because I don't like being stonewalled and having someone talk at me out of both sides of their mouth. I also don't like having it implied my only real option is to put myself in debt for the rest of my life /just/ for a degree in this, that or the other.
I'm also tired of hearing that 'we're a private design school, we can do what we want' - maybe so, but if you want /me/ to study there, you're bloody well going to give me a few straight answers and accomodate at /least/ one of my major hurdles! GAH!
Major hurdles to date: Funding, Transportation, ability to focus.
I'll settle for them accomodating the funding - I'll bloody well figure the rest out on my own if they'll get that one! Rrr.
So far, I'm less than amused, and trying to figure out wtf is the problem with the compromise I am proposing - which works for ME, and makes it possible for me to do this. 'We don't have an articulation agreement' - uh, yeh, you keep saying that, then you tell me you /do/ (or did, but that's not /quite/ what she said..) and ... what am I supposed to believe?!
While I'm perfectly willing to accept that she /can't/ tell me the things I need to know, what I want to know is why? Why is it not cool for a student who's strapped for cash to take the general courses (Math, history, science - boring shit) at one of the community colleges, then transfer to their 'private design school' for the specialised courses that you can't get at the community college?
Is there a snag in that that I, the student, am missing? Is the 'evolving curricula' so throughly enmeshed with college math, history and other stuff that what is taught at a community college isn't the exact same materiel?
If I were a little more pessimistic, I'd think they were doing it for the specific purpose of being difficult! >.<
Well. While I am willing to a point to leap through hoops, once I reach that point I stop jumping (this is why I'd be no good in the military, except maybe as an officer - I don't take orders well) and start wanting straight answers and a lessening in bullshit. Needless to say, I've about hit that point. ^^;
They want my money? /And/ my talent? they can bloody well accomodate my big hurdle, /without/ the garbage, and without standing on their tongues!
So it looks like it's PCC to start with - I'll have a word with them over at the Northwest College of Art (Washington! GAH!) and the Pacific Northwest CoA and see what they say, as well as a word with them over at PNWCoAaC - still debating whether I tell them I've been talking to them at AI ... and, whether to tell AI that I'm looking around, since they're being overly (to my mind) difficult.. ^.~
Generally though, I'm getting tired of the run around. This is not productive, to my mind, and the more I'm bullshitted the less I am amused and the more I am tempted to tell them to take it and shove it where the sun don't shine...
Would it kill them to give you a straight answer?
*sigh* I just got through sorting out my 'college experience'. So far, it looks like I'm doing PCC, general studies with a hope of transferring to a more focused school later on.
AI is still a contender, but I'm now also looking at the Pacific NW College of Art and Craft (Portland!), the Northwest College of Art (Washington!) and the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland!).
Why? Because I don't like being stonewalled and having someone talk at me out of both sides of their mouth. I also don't like having it implied my only real option is to put myself in debt for the rest of my life /just/ for a degree in this, that or the other.
I'm also tired of hearing that 'we're a private design school, we can do what we want' - maybe so, but if you want /me/ to study there, you're bloody well going to give me a few straight answers and accomodate at /least/ one of my major hurdles! GAH!
Major hurdles to date: Funding, Transportation, ability to focus.
I'll settle for them accomodating the funding - I'll bloody well figure the rest out on my own if they'll get that one! Rrr.
So far, I'm less than amused, and trying to figure out wtf is the problem with the compromise I am proposing - which works for ME, and makes it possible for me to do this. 'We don't have an articulation agreement' - uh, yeh, you keep saying that, then you tell me you /do/ (or did, but that's not /quite/ what she said..) and ... what am I supposed to believe?!
While I'm perfectly willing to accept that she /can't/ tell me the things I need to know, what I want to know is why? Why is it not cool for a student who's strapped for cash to take the general courses (Math, history, science - boring shit) at one of the community colleges, then transfer to their 'private design school' for the specialised courses that you can't get at the community college?
Is there a snag in that that I, the student, am missing? Is the 'evolving curricula' so throughly enmeshed with college math, history and other stuff that what is taught at a community college isn't the exact same materiel?
If I were a little more pessimistic, I'd think they were doing it for the specific purpose of being difficult! >.<
Well. While I am willing to a point to leap through hoops, once I reach that point I stop jumping (this is why I'd be no good in the military, except maybe as an officer - I don't take orders well) and start wanting straight answers and a lessening in bullshit. Needless to say, I've about hit that point. ^^;
They want my money? /And/ my talent? they can bloody well accomodate my big hurdle, /without/ the garbage, and without standing on their tongues!
So it looks like it's PCC to start with - I'll have a word with them over at the Northwest College of Art (Washington! GAH!) and the Pacific Northwest CoA and see what they say, as well as a word with them over at PNWCoAaC - still debating whether I tell them I've been talking to them at AI ... and, whether to tell AI that I'm looking around, since they're being overly (to my mind) difficult.. ^.~
Generally though, I'm getting tired of the run around. This is not productive, to my mind, and the more I'm bullshitted the less I am amused and the more I am tempted to tell them to take it and shove it where the sun don't shine...
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