WOO more complaints!
Jan. 4th, 2009 06:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitaroEverywhere else I complain, I get nothing but excuses and BS, so I'm going to go straight to the president... where I think I'm less likely to get excuses and BS.
Couple of things...
-Financial Aid - I know that you have to weed out the people whos parents make 100k a year and want free college also... But it's pretty ridiculous in my case.. My dad makes less than 40k a year.. Filled out the FAFSA.. and we only get 200$ back IF i go fulltime. All of JCC's scholarships are stupid and you have to fill out the FAFSA anyway. I had to pull teeth to get my dad to fill out the FAFSA the one time he DID do it. I am not even joking. We can barely afford our house.. If it wasnt for my mom's death and my brother getting social security, we WOULDNT be able to afford our house.. Yet we're still expected to dish out money for college? I started JCC in the fall of 2006. I'm going for a graphic design certificate. I'm still not done.. and I've been going every semester since then. (Not spring though) As you are well aware, the economy sucks, and getting a job is almost out of the question. Noone will hire me. Period. If you want me to list all the places I've sent apps into, I can. I *ALMOST* got into Walmart, but sales were low and they couldn't hire me.
-Book buyback - Out of the 3 years I've been here.. out of the hundreds of dollars i've spen t on books, they have ONLY bought ONE book back. They ALMOST bought 2 back, but I was missing the CD. I brought the CD back a few days later, and they wouldn't accept it because that books inventory was full. Their other excuse was that "the books are too old" or whatever. If they expect me to pay 100$ for a used math book, I expect them to buy it back. Otherwise, its 25 cents at a garage sale, totally wasted.
-Speaking of... math.. The only thing keeping me from a 4.0... I kept perfect tabs on all my scores from my math class.. There's no way I should have gotten less than a 3.0, unless I got a negative score on the final exam... but I got a 2.5. Ridiculous in my opinion. I know, not your fault... But it's stupid either way.
-In one class I took, a printing class, it was pretty insane. The first class there was stuff in boxes, everything was disorganized, and he told us just to go home because he didnt have anything ready... The next class we started designing our products. We have to bring our own laptops because there's not enough computers. Another day wasted with something I could have done at home. This went on throughout the rest of the year. When it came to a point we actually had to use the equipment TO PRINT, while 1 person stood around trying to print.. The teacher was helping them.. When the teacher wasn't helping someone he was standing around talking to random people that walked in. While the rest of the class is STILL. WAITING. He said that he would bring in some assistants to help.. But he never did. He said he was planning a field trip to a print shop, but never did. Near the end of the semester, he didn't order emulsion, so we couldnt screenprint. He didnt even order tshirts at ALL the ENTIRE class. We PAYED for those in tuition! and we saw none of it. For 2 weeks. That was a huge problem, because we had 15 people wanting to screenprint. Only 3 people can print at once, and thats 2 weeks of 0 production... It came to a point, where, unless I had to print, I didn't even go to class, because all it was, was designing on my laptop, which I could do at home. We didn't even have lectures or anything.
-Class offerings - There's 2 particular classes I need to take.. Both of which are offered ONLY on main campus at night. InDesign II and Graphic technology applications. In the wintertime, especially at night, there's no way I can drive an hour to maincampus when its really snowy or icy. How the heck am I expected to take those classes? Are we ALLOWED to not go to class when the roads are bad.. and still not get points deducted? Do the teachers know that? Do they even care?
Well, that's all the comments I have at the moment. I hope you decide to fix a few things, cuz I feel like my time at JCC is being wasted.
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-=~*Cait*~=-
-=~*caiterz@gmail.com~=-
This was sent to my school, because they are a bunch of STUPID HUMANS D:
Couple of things...
-Financial Aid - I know that you have to weed out the people whos parents make 100k a year and want free college also... But it's pretty ridiculous in my case.. My dad makes less than 40k a year.. Filled out the FAFSA.. and we only get 200$ back IF i go fulltime. All of JCC's scholarships are stupid and you have to fill out the FAFSA anyway. I had to pull teeth to get my dad to fill out the FAFSA the one time he DID do it. I am not even joking. We can barely afford our house.. If it wasnt for my mom's death and my brother getting social security, we WOULDNT be able to afford our house.. Yet we're still expected to dish out money for college? I started JCC in the fall of 2006. I'm going for a graphic design certificate. I'm still not done.. and I've been going every semester since then. (Not spring though) As you are well aware, the economy sucks, and getting a job is almost out of the question. Noone will hire me. Period. If you want me to list all the places I've sent apps into, I can. I *ALMOST* got into Walmart, but sales were low and they couldn't hire me.
-Book buyback - Out of the 3 years I've been here.. out of the hundreds of dollars i've spen t on books, they have ONLY bought ONE book back. They ALMOST bought 2 back, but I was missing the CD. I brought the CD back a few days later, and they wouldn't accept it because that books inventory was full. Their other excuse was that "the books are too old" or whatever. If they expect me to pay 100$ for a used math book, I expect them to buy it back. Otherwise, its 25 cents at a garage sale, totally wasted.
-Speaking of... math.. The only thing keeping me from a 4.0... I kept perfect tabs on all my scores from my math class.. There's no way I should have gotten less than a 3.0, unless I got a negative score on the final exam... but I got a 2.5. Ridiculous in my opinion. I know, not your fault... But it's stupid either way.
-In one class I took, a printing class, it was pretty insane. The first class there was stuff in boxes, everything was disorganized, and he told us just to go home because he didnt have anything ready... The next class we started designing our products. We have to bring our own laptops because there's not enough computers. Another day wasted with something I could have done at home. This went on throughout the rest of the year. When it came to a point we actually had to use the equipment TO PRINT, while 1 person stood around trying to print.. The teacher was helping them.. When the teacher wasn't helping someone he was standing around talking to random people that walked in. While the rest of the class is STILL. WAITING. He said that he would bring in some assistants to help.. But he never did. He said he was planning a field trip to a print shop, but never did. Near the end of the semester, he didn't order emulsion, so we couldnt screenprint. He didnt even order tshirts at ALL the ENTIRE class. We PAYED for those in tuition! and we saw none of it. For 2 weeks. That was a huge problem, because we had 15 people wanting to screenprint. Only 3 people can print at once, and thats 2 weeks of 0 production... It came to a point, where, unless I had to print, I didn't even go to class, because all it was, was designing on my laptop, which I could do at home. We didn't even have lectures or anything.
-Class offerings - There's 2 particular classes I need to take.. Both of which are offered ONLY on main campus at night. InDesign II and Graphic technology applications. In the wintertime, especially at night, there's no way I can drive an hour to maincampus when its really snowy or icy. How the heck am I expected to take those classes? Are we ALLOWED to not go to class when the roads are bad.. and still not get points deducted? Do the teachers know that? Do they even care?
Well, that's all the comments I have at the moment. I hope you decide to fix a few things, cuz I feel like my time at JCC is being wasted.
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-=~*Cait*~=-
-=~*caiterz@gmail.com~=-
This was sent to my school, because they are a bunch of STUPID HUMANS D:
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Date: Monday, January 5th, 2009 09:48 am (UTC)I so agree with the books thing and that teacher not putting in any effort ... both an extreme waste of money, and that teacher is on top of that also a waste of time.
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Date: Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 11:00 am (UTC)I <3 complaining about the injustices of the world!@