To Revamp Public Education or to Keep Status Quo?
After going through the K-12 system and being out of it for 2 decades, it’s hard to believe how much of that information I don’t use. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Education
How Will a College Experience Affect Your Life?
What do you really expect to get out of a college experience? Do you really need college to be successful? It’s pretty strange that even though there is so much information about student debt and how bad colleges can be, college is still in the forefront of many young adult… Continue reading
6 Paths other than College to Be Educated
Personally, I don’t believe starting your “adult” life by going into student loan debt is a good thing in any measure. If you don’t have scholarships and can’t afford it, avoid college until you can. Believe it or not, there are plenty of paths other than college. While in high… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas (or college in general): Internships
The idea of college is swell. The execution is hilarious. Basically, you pay to go somewhere to be taught a career. Then, you are expected to get internships, most of which you are not paid to do. You are paying to work for free. Then, after all of that, you… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: General Education Courses
Where do I go with the Gen Eds? I sure don’t go far, that’s for sure. This is an art school, so of course the majority of general education classes offered are art related. They were tossed in mostly with Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, a random Spanish or French level 1 course tossed… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: Student Mentors
When I arrived at The Art Institute of Las Vegas, I received a Student Mentor. The mentors are essentially guides for new students. Ideally, the mentor is in the same field as the student so the mentor can help the student more effectively.However, I received a mentor that was in Graphic… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas: Student Presentations
I’m going to preface this by stating that I’m probably going to upset some of my friends! The amount of time I have wasted sitting through trashy, nearly worthless student presentations is unacceptable. Sometimes student presentations would literally crossover in to the following weeks’ classes because most of the instructors… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: “Helpful” Students
I am not sure if this is just local to Las Vegas, but boy howdy do students around here not really care for each other nearly as much as they should.As a film student, I generally had to check out many pieces of equipment – most of the time I didn’t have… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas Review: Faculty Shake Up = Excuses
In my first year at the Art Institute, there were some changes in the faculty going on. Some instructors, some in management. Still, everything appeared as normal. However, after my first year, there was suppose to be a “portfolio review” that never happened. I vaguely remember this causing a bit… Continue reading
The Art Institute of Las Vegas Review: Housing Costs
***********A group I am a part of on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/aistudents/ – has a new member as of May 27th, 2018 that has posted that his Art Institute and possibly all of them will be shutting down their housing programs at the end of Summer 2018*********** I will be touching up… Continue reading