I'm in my last quarter at A.I. Burnaby, finishing off my course in 3D Modeling. This quarter one of our classes is Professional Development, a course meant to prepare us with the right attitude, resume, and self representation to go into the industry. For whatever reason the school saw fit to replace their really kick ass teacher who was an industry professional with our current teacher.

First off, just let me say, she's a nice person and I'm sure she's good at her job wherever else she works. It's just unbelievable that the school hired her as a teacher at our school seeing as how she know's NOTHING about our industry. Thusly I'd like to share with you some quotes that may not seem funny to those unfamiliar with the 3D animation industry but are quite surprising to hear an A.I. teacher say:

FIRST CLASS:

"My life long goal is to make soap." (apparently it's environmentally safe laundry soap.)

"What's Pixar?" (we had to tell her, who and what Pixar was.)

"What's Maya?" (maya is the computer softwear which every one of us uses to make our 3D renders)

"3D Modelling? Do you mean as in using clay?" (yup, she's pretty low tech, she levels a forest with the amount of hand outs she brings every class)

SECOND CLASS

"This class will help you measure your sex." (she meant to say success)

"I did tree planting so it balances out." (her response to the amount of paper she uses per class)

THIRD CLASS

"What's that company again? Paxar?" (It was funny, the entire class shouted "PIXAR!" at her.)

FOURTH CLASS

"I want you to call six companies in the industry this week and ask them the following questions. If you don't reach them by phone, go in in person." (I agree whole-heartedly to this when doing a regular job search outside of the industry but if you do this with industry companies you will get black listed and they could think badly of the school. They'd probably not want anything to do with a school that will sick their students on them with a bunch of annoying questions that can be found out by looking at their website.)

"Send them a thank you letter, they'll most likely keep it on their desk or bookcase as a nice momento." (Maybe if you attatch season tickets to it or it comes with a case of scotch.)