More School

I’m having some more problems with my classes. For my design class, my teammates and I are each supposed to draw (technical drawing, mind you) two concepts for the project we are working on, a lightweight tower design. Now, I’d like to use an analogy. Completing a drawing which satisfies all of the teacher’s requirements is about as easy as finding a piece of hay in a needlestack. With a blindfold on. And balloons instead on hands. We received our packet back for the second time today, and received criticisms for the minutest of details. The drawings I spent four hours on did not include arrows at the end of the lines indicating where my measurements began and ended, so I got a nice bit of red pen on my careful drawings and now I get to draw them all over again, with arrows and all. Of course, if he had told me in the first place to include arrows, we wouldn’t have this problem. But that would make things less interesting. For our second packet, which we also received back today, we were simply told it was wrong and to do it over, and when we asked what the professor would like us to change, he either lacked sufficient English to tell us or avoids helping students because of the intense physical pain he associates with constructive criticism. It is frustrating, to say the least.

But as I’ve said before, I’m not here for the education. I’m here for the experiences, of which I have had many, both good and bad. I am broadening my horizons, there can be no doubt of that.