Goddamn Chef Paul
Apr. 8th, 2010 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rai_ryuSo I'm doing pretty crappily in a few of my classes.
Culinary theory (39%!). I got really good marks easily last semester so I just kind of assumed that I would this semester, and coasted along. Obviously not the best choice. I already talked to Chef Phillipe and he's letting me make up one assignment which will hopefully boost my mark, then my exam will HOPEFULLY bring it up to a pass (55%)
Production, for obvious reasons. I have to meet with Chef Paul and try to sort it out (seems like he wants to give me an "incomplete"), and I really want to convince him to just give me 55% so I can get the hell out of there. Of course, he has about one brain cell so that's not going to be easy. I mean, if I can get the courage, I want to just tell him at this point I just want to put this whole culinary college thing behind me so why doesn't he just give me a 55%? I wouldn't care much about passing if my dad would not be super pissed off at me for having him spend 4000$+ on the education only to have myself fail. Obviously I shouldn't have let the various pressures going on around me force me into a program I didn't want to be in, but its too late for that now. Maybe I can make up a few classes through volunteering or coming in after the semester is done? I'm hoping something like that will work out.
Advanced Kitchen Management and Nutrition. I don't actually know if I'm failing this (or close to failing) since the teacher hasn't put our marks online (though she is supposed to). I've gotten great on both tests but have not done either assignment (I did one of them but was too lazy to hand it in for some reason??). I'm hoping my final assignment (which I AM actually doing) and my final test will allow me to pass.
This semester has been really trying. I'm sure I could have passed everything if I had put my full effort into it, but there were bothersome emotional issues at the beginning that essentially screwed me in some classes before I got over them. Then I kind of stopped caring about everything. Now I only care vaguely, but hope to scrape by with 55's in those classes. I haven't started looking for my co-op placement because I don't even know if I'm passing...but what if I DO pass then can't find a co-op?? ARG!
On a nicer note, though, I got 95% on my business report which is great because I wrote it the night before it was due and really had no clue what I was doing. The teacher was very impressed by it and she wants to chat to me about writing and publishing. I'm excited but totally nervous because I don't know how to chat with people or what to talk/ask her about. I really think I want to focus a lot more on writing after I'm done with this school business. I would love to see FMM published (and I've been considering new names for it).
I need to get to sleep now, since I have to get up at 6am for tomorrow's class. But good luck trying to fall asleep at 10 when average bedtime this week was 2am.
Culinary theory (39%!). I got really good marks easily last semester so I just kind of assumed that I would this semester, and coasted along. Obviously not the best choice. I already talked to Chef Phillipe and he's letting me make up one assignment which will hopefully boost my mark, then my exam will HOPEFULLY bring it up to a pass (55%)
Production, for obvious reasons. I have to meet with Chef Paul and try to sort it out (seems like he wants to give me an "incomplete"), and I really want to convince him to just give me 55% so I can get the hell out of there. Of course, he has about one brain cell so that's not going to be easy. I mean, if I can get the courage, I want to just tell him at this point I just want to put this whole culinary college thing behind me so why doesn't he just give me a 55%? I wouldn't care much about passing if my dad would not be super pissed off at me for having him spend 4000$+ on the education only to have myself fail. Obviously I shouldn't have let the various pressures going on around me force me into a program I didn't want to be in, but its too late for that now. Maybe I can make up a few classes through volunteering or coming in after the semester is done? I'm hoping something like that will work out.
Advanced Kitchen Management and Nutrition. I don't actually know if I'm failing this (or close to failing) since the teacher hasn't put our marks online (though she is supposed to). I've gotten great on both tests but have not done either assignment (I did one of them but was too lazy to hand it in for some reason??). I'm hoping my final assignment (which I AM actually doing) and my final test will allow me to pass.
This semester has been really trying. I'm sure I could have passed everything if I had put my full effort into it, but there were bothersome emotional issues at the beginning that essentially screwed me in some classes before I got over them. Then I kind of stopped caring about everything. Now I only care vaguely, but hope to scrape by with 55's in those classes. I haven't started looking for my co-op placement because I don't even know if I'm passing...but what if I DO pass then can't find a co-op?? ARG!
On a nicer note, though, I got 95% on my business report which is great because I wrote it the night before it was due and really had no clue what I was doing. The teacher was very impressed by it and she wants to chat to me about writing and publishing. I'm excited but totally nervous because I don't know how to chat with people or what to talk/ask her about. I really think I want to focus a lot more on writing after I'm done with this school business. I would love to see FMM published (and I've been considering new names for it).
I need to get to sleep now, since I have to get up at 6am for tomorrow's class. But good luck trying to fall asleep at 10 when average bedtime this week was 2am.
