~ i come in at 09h30 to present my ‘west hollywood living’ project – a fiasco – and i check my email, and i see a note from my thesis advisor stating that we have a presentation the next morning. twenty-four hours before the presentation, the advisor informs us of it. why this advisor could not tell us two weeks earlier or one week earlier or even one day earlier is beyond me. surely, this advisor knew his one plans for leaving town before this morning and could have told us the schedule. then i remember that this the same i have given this advisor three copies of my thesis proposal, and i have had zero of them returned. this is the advisor who has met with the group six times in a fifteen week semester; this is the advisor who told me that i was to wait in the hall to see if there was time to meet me, though i had an appointment a half hour earlier. this is the advisor who sent an email at 8am to cancel a 10am meeting, which was the first in two weeks.

   so, my thesis research course at sci-arc has been a sore disappointment. i don’t think that this is always the case; some people consider themselves very fortunate to have the advice of their instructors. i suppose it is just my bad luck and bad planning to become involved with someone who either is more concerned with getting his or her face on a poster than with answering students’ questions. perhaps, though, this advisor really wants to help, but just does not know enough to be of any benefit to anyone; perhaps, then, this advisor, through, ignorance, believes that a great deal of successful advising is going on. however, this does not explain the advisor’s arrogance and antagonism when concerns about the class are voiced; perhaps, then, this advisor does know of his own shortcomings and is trying to hide them behind his snide comments. no, this advisor is not an educator; this advisor is an architect. this advisor’s work is as ‘brilliant’ as the instructing is lackluster.
   at least i will have the chance to spend this summer writing my proposal again, after i fail this semester…

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