So during my period of unemployment, I had made it a point to try to keep myself busy and learning so I don't let this time be completely wasted since I really don't enjoy feeling like a bum most of the time.
I had signed myself up for two summer sessions very basic courses in Flash and Dreamweaver at a nearby community college. Since they were summer sessions, they would be very fast paced as it is concentrated within a period of 6 weeks. I have been teaching myself a bit more about these programs here and there, but I figured I should take a proper course to get a better overview of things updated in the CS3 Creative Suite, and hopefully it would include the latest/greatest tricks of the new CS3 versions. Since I have some personal projects of my own which I would like to pursue and put into action later this year, ones that focus on services/networking through the website, I figured why not?
However, keeping in mind that no emails or other notifications have been sent, I made my way over to the college and guess what?
Flash classes are canceled to the disappointment of myself and 20 others. No. Not a single student was made aware,. Infact, this announcement had been made only after everyone had been waiting outside the original designated classroom for the prior class to be dismissed... and the excuse? Very unclear. The Dean who came by to make the announcement pretty much went down a list of what seemed like potential excuses, and I along with the others doubt either was actually the accurate one. Conclusively, my choice currently are:
A) To wait until Fall to take the course for which I cannot enroll for until July
B) To see if I can transfer into the already full Distance Learning (DL) class which another disappointed guy discouraged me to do because he himself had taken a DL software program course 8 years ago and it just doesn't convey the material as well as a present instructor does. I agree with this myself, because if I had infact wanted to do a DL course instead, then I may as well have continued to teach myself via online tutorials. If I am paying the full amount of the course, I may as well have a person present to actually show and teach
C) Continue to teach myself via the abundance of resources of online tutorials
As for the Dreamweaver class, I came to find out that the version they had been teaching up till now was the Macromedia 2004 version. Super obsolete. However, the CS3 version will be taught starting this Fall. Wow. I had assumed it would be CS3 if not some other recent version. What's the point in teaching an obsolete software program? I will definitely have to drop that one and see if I can take it during the Fall instead else it would be completely pointless.
On the other hand, I can't help but wonder if this means that perhaps there's a job offer on the horizon which would have meant that I would have had to drop out of these courses anyhow. I guess will have to wait and see if the Universe is finally done bitchslapping me with bad luck, yet, or not.
At least I have my sabudana vadas to look forward to <3
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