{"id":2932,"date":"2011-05-09T12:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2011-05-09T12:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:47:49","slug":"another-semester-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/another-semester-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Another semester over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Spring semester of teaching finished last week. It was an encouraging semester\u2026I&#8217;m aware of at least a handful of students I&#8217;ve taught this semester have been accepted into the program to go on as future animators or interface designers.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance this semester was a little better. I actually got most of them to show up for perfect attendance until they started to drop out like flies in the last project. I know, I really should impose stricter penalties for attendance but I couldn&#8217;t be bothered chasing down who I consider &#8220;grown adults&#8221; for a situation that affects their lives more than it does for me?<\/p>\n<p>One thing that was a bit of a surprise to me this time around was the fact I had a bunch of students at the end of the semester come up and thank me. Some even went as far as saying that I was one of their &#8220;favorite art teachers&#8221;?! \u00a0Yeah, I&#8217;m not teaching as a popularity contest, but I won&#8217;t lie and say that hearing that wasn&#8217;t a bit of a pick-me-up after 16 weeks of struggle with these guys.<\/p>\n<p>I even bumped into a couple of students from my first semester of teaching (they&#8217;re now about to graduate this semester). They&#8217;re going to soon go off and do amazing things with their talent now and I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll keep in touch.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, I&#8217;ve had a couple of students who are on my F list:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WVvKnq5XT-g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is sadly very true&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Spring semester of teaching finished last week. It was an encouraging semester\u2026I&#8217;m aware of at least a handful of students I&#8217;ve taught this semester have been accepted into the program to go on as future animators or interface designers. Attendance this semester was a little better. I actually got most of them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}