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You can only do so much with one person at a chalkboard. That really is what gave me
the idea of the one-on-one approach; one human being sitting down and working with another.
If the student is slow, the mentor can take its time with the slow student. If the student
is super-advanced, the mentor can move ahead. Everything about it is just so much better,
in terms of the one-on-one. If you really look at it, when you go to a normal, traditional
school, whether it be a music, film school, broadcasting school, or college, the only
real people that you get, as far as connections or contacts, are the other students.
The other thing I did not like about recording school was the lecture class sizes. The lab
sizes were actually pretty tame throughout the whole thing, and they got smaller as it
went on. It depended on the class, really. Some classes had bigger labs full of more
people. My mastering class had about, I would say, 25 people in the labs, because we had
rows and rows of computers. Getting one-on-one attention was a little difficult sometimes.
They would when they could, but there were so many other students and, again, there is
no filtering of who gets in and out, it is more of a business there.
You would have students who were not able to keep up and needed more help and attention
than you, and you may just have a quick question and it may take a while for you to get that
answer. Other times, it would be really fast, depending on who you got paired up with. Also,
I do not think that a lot of the times the lab teachers truly paid attention to what
the mixes or your projects were. I never got any feedback on any of my final projects.
They are there with a bunch of other students and they are really not getting that much
hands-on time, when it comes down to it, because there are so many students.
When I would have to check out an SSL console, when I wanted to go use that lab, there were
the same three students who happened to not have a busy schedule, probably were able to
pounce in there at 7:00 a.m. the morning that the classes started every month. They would
schedule every week and every spare moment that those consoles were not being used for
a session, they would get them all and check them all out. They were allowed to do that
and there wasn't any equal dispersion. It was just whoever checked them out.
Another thing, too, is you can learn more in an afternoon one-on-one with somebody than
you are going to learn in a year, sitting at a college or classroom environment.
The graduation ceremony ticked me off, in a sense. It felt like everything was so rushed;
signup, start going, you do the thing, and they spit you out. 'Here is a graduation ceremony.
Bye. Thank you for the money.' It just felt like that.
One thing I hated was the general education they made me take, even though I knew it was
necessary to get my degree and all that. I really wish that if I was actually going to
get a degree, I went to Junior college and paid $45 a unit to take these general education
courses, instead of $1,500 per class.
They want to charge me what? $25,000, $30,000, $45,000 or more of money I do not have, that
I am going to have to borrow from a bankrupt government.
This is the big thing. Our programs, you are looking at $8,400 for the programs. When you
go to many of these other schools, you are looking at tuitions of, on the low end, $18,000,
the high end, $70,000 $80,000 $100,000. Think about it, even if the tuition is $40,000,
after the interest on these loans, you are paying back almost $75,000, if you really
look at the math.
I do not care if you go to 4 or 8 years of college. I do not care if you take a 6-month
or a year program. In any career, think about it, your job that you start off in is going
to be entry-level, bottom of the ladder, pay your dues. You want to get working as much
as you can because the goal is to go from that entry-level to the better job. We have
a huge student services we call a Retention Department. We got full-time people, really
around-the-clock, working with helping students while they are in the program. We have really
beefed up our student services, job placement department. What we do now is when you are
done with our programs, even though you will have your diploma and you are done, you are
really not done. We then really get into customer service, in terms of building your website,
helping you with getting work