The Art Institute of California - San Diego

The courses I have taken at The Art Institute of California-San Diego (AICASD) really have varied a lot in the past year and a half along with the instructors. Some of the classes have been fun and others have been so boring and dry I thought I would not be able to last through one full quarter. There are certain categories that all the classes fall into such as; neutral, advancing, and regressing. One of which is helpful, obviously, the advancing classes and teachers that go along with them. I think that the two categories are there to point out the people that do not want to be at school and hopefully make them realize that and eventually leave. Really though I have enjoyed a couple of the neutral classes and all of the advancing classes. Some of the teachers, however, that came along with these classes were not all that great. Even the teachers fall into certain categories and they do in fact work with the class classifications and they are as follows; dry, energetic and unfocused, and willing to help. Obviously only one of these helps with a college education which is the instructors that are willing to help and willing to teach, amazingly I have not very many instructors like this at school. The first thing that I feel is important to change is the regressing classes that comes along with the energetic and unfocused instructor.

Is it not bad enough that they make you take classes that are so horrible that i feel like I won't remember how to draw when I get out of class? No, this is not enough they have to of course make you have a teacher that is really energetic and cool, but he was so focused on just talking to people about what they like to do on the weekends and stuff like that, that no one learned anything and he ended up failing most people because he was shocked that they did not learn anything. This class was very important to it Drawing in Proportion and Perspective, very crucial to animation. I actually felt like a small part of my brain would disappear after every single class and I felt like I could not draw at all afterwards. I actually failed that class due to something that was not fault and I had to spend another one thousand five hundred dollars to retake it. All these classes like these make you want to leave, but if you want to make it in the real industry you are going to have to put up with bullshit the whole time. The neutral classes are not as bad, but you why you are there the whole time.

This type of classes have the most dry people I have ever heard in my life trying to teach them. Personally, I think that there should be a test for fundamental classes so that you do not have to take them such as; Image Manipulation, Observational Drawing, Color Theory, etc... These do not really help that much in my opinion to help advance you in your career. Again they are there to help point out people that do not want this as much as the other students. It is very easy to fall asleep in these classes because usually the teachers do not act like they even want to be there, they are very monotone and dry and childish humor. I remember in my Image Manipulation class my teacher sounded like Kermit the Frog and looked like Joey from Full House and that was about the only fun I got out of that class. One day I was done with all the work for the day, so I