#like we've been having class over discord these first few weeks and in my 4 years of college i've never been in a room of people

[eijiroukiriot]

i think...there’s something simple and familiar and earth-shatteringly important in this. there’s a million ways that this could go but only one way that it ends 

#strangers to friends to lovers...CONTEMPT on either side to friends to lovers. mild stupid teenage contempt rooted in personas... #not to sound stupid pretentious but the fact that it starts with bkg being so up his ass that he doesn't care at all about his classmates #much less shitty hair over there and kirishima not liking bkg very much either. and it ends in love #god dammit it ends in LOVE!! it ends in LOVE!!!!!! #i hope it doesn't seem self centered that i'm saying all this abt a line from a random wip of mine i forgot abt btw #it just feels like such a part of the heart of krbk. i know i'm not the first person to type that #i wasn't gonna do anything w this wip but actually i think i might mess around w it for the content creation class i'm in #have i mentioned that here? i'm in this class this semester all abt internet prosumer communities #so we're talking abt flash animators and speedrunners and chiptune producers and ofc fic writers #not that i have a lot to say abt that right now but it's pretty cool and also kinda crazy #like we've been having class over discord these first few weeks and in my 4 years of college i've never been in a room of people #more open to admitting their potentially-embarrassing interests and hobbies #people are dropping their ao3 links and everything #i think i'm. still too scared to do that honestly i've just barely been able to admit i'm into bnha #forced once again to look at how closely i consider krbk a part of my life and identity to the point that i think if i let anyone know i #like it they'll automatically assume i mean i like it That much #which. i do. you guys know #in my defense they're extremely extremely good which you guys also know #the other thing that scares me abt admitting that i like krbk or even writing it as a part of our fic unit is bc if i have to face ship dram #a in a college course i will decompose piece by piece #i'll drop out of school months away from graduation #i didn't end up posting abt it bc i didn't think it was worth making a thing out of it but in my superhero class last term there was this #girl who also liked bnha so we talked abt it once or twice throughout the class #and she ended up writing abt b/kdk for her final and i had also mentioned that kirishima was my fav #and that was a situation where it was like. i am not going to have ship discourse with a student at College #so if saying who my favs are will lead to any sort of clash in that sense i am going to tread so lightly #i would make this its own post at this point but i don't really want to make a whole post abt this #but anyway i bring this up bc for our fic unit in this class we're gonna get split into groups based on general fandom interest #but bnha fandom is so rife w ship discourse (versus like supernatural) that having people peer reviewing each other's bnha fic is risky #business

[smolskye]

alright fellas i must tell the story of my art class staging a coup. this is long

tldr: emergency replacement art teacher isn't qualified to teach the course, frustrating students to the point of speaking out and refusing to attend. i'll update this post as new events occur.

i will set the scene. it is september 2021. my school has just started in person courses. on the first wednesday of the term, i go over to where my first art class of the term is supposed to be. there is nobody in the room. i check my email and find that the class was cancelled. no worries, it happens. i go home.

one week later. i receive another email that class is cancelled. i start to get concerned about the well-being of the professor/the people in his life, but i'm also anxious about the course content being set back.

one day later. i receive an email. the entire course has been cancelled for the term. i am worried and upset, as it is a course required for me to graduate, and i don't have a backup. thankfully, i'm able to take another econ class to satisfy my credit requirement, and i'm also able to swap the art class for a writing class to satisfy my creative arts requirement. crisis averted. i'm still taking an art class next term.

january 2022. new classes begin, online for 4 weeks bc of omicron, then back to campus. my art class is a group of 20, mostly art majors with a few people like myself scattered in as well. we start a discord server. the teacher of my art class (let's call him H) is not who any of us were expecting. i keep an open mind despite being extremely overwhelmed by the descriptions of the course content, which had a lot more art theory and had some very challenging assignments, much more so than the prereq. makes sense i guess, it's an upper level course, but i'm still nervous.

weeks pass. people are becoming increasingly frustrated with the class and its content. here are just a few things brought up:

40+ pages of reading every week - started with 80 but teacher cut it down to 40

not being taught how to use programs in class

being expected to have computers strong enough for certain programs or having access to one

"lectures" are just vague discussions about stuff from the reading and sometimes aren't even related

in general it's hard for any of us to even engage in any of the material because it isn't important for our assignments

january 27th. one person, who i will call X, spoke with his advisor, who said that H is experienced in painting, not digital art. turns out that the prof who dropped the class in term 1 was supposed to teach this class, but couldn't. H was the only person they could bring in last minute.

january 30th. another person, S, says flat out that they don't want to waste the semester self teaching and doing almost nothing during class time. she asks if we think if bringing this up to the dept head is reasonable. a debate starts as to what would even happen. some of us, including myself, do NOT want the class cancelled, as we are graduating this year and will not graduate without the class credits. i bring up that maybe this course is usually taught like this, but X says that he had asked the dept head last term about the course content, and, as it turns out, it is VERY different than what we've been doing. while i'm not going into a creative arts career and therefore these courses aren't too important to me, the arts majors require these courses and this information, so it's a big deal for them. X is very firm on believing that H is not qualified to teach the course, and i agree with him. other common contributors in the group chat agree with us as well.

today, february 1st. nobody is thrilled to return to campus next week. nobody is thrilled to attend class tomorrow on zoom either. another person, Z, also brings up that she is frustrated that H is unqualified. i ask if anyone is planning on just skipping, because i agree with the others that i'm not getting much of anything from class time and would rather spend that time working on other assignments. some people want the class to stay online since we won't be taught the programs anyway. a few other people also don't plan on attending. tensions are running high and everything is up in the air.

where do we go from here? i'm wondering if some people will stop attending all together, or if more than 1-2 of us will bring it up to the dept head or others in the arts department. the main problem is that i don't know what the solution is. if H isn't qualified to teach the standard course content but they can't bring in anything else, they can either cancel the class or keep it going with H and his curriculum. i obviously don't want the former as i won't graduate this year without this course, but i also don't look forward to two more months of nothing that i'm paying $3000 for.

#skye.txt #storytime!