School!!

Well, finally i am going onto my Senior year. And i am actually starting to like school, i took a class i REALLY enjoyed and I'm good at. CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) i was actually excited that summer is getting short to go back to this class and design stuff.

But then i got a dreaded Phone call. "Hi Tyler, We are calling you about your Vo-Tech schedule. "Ok?" Well they dropped Second session CAD Do you want to take another class? "What do you mean they dropped second session CAD?" Well they only have 1st and 3rd session now, so you need to pick a new class. "Well i dont know i REALLY wanted to take CAD" Well there is nothing we can do "Let me think about it". Then i hung up while she was talking (oops)

So they ruined the school year for be because i cant take the class i actually enjoyed. The class that i was planning on expanding my knowledge on for my Career. I WAS the best person in all three sessions to go to my 2nd year. And they there me out. And i can't take any other session because our school only does second.

So now i have to pick a class. (Its a tossup between Machine Tech, Or Computer Networking) I'm still trying to find my teachers phone number, to talk to him about maybe coming in after school to "Expand my knowledge" I'm also going to call the school and maybe i can setup something where i can leave to go to 3rd session cad. (kinda like some students do Co-Op Where they leave school to work for something that they do in the Vo-Tech program.

I don't know, i think this is just a bunch of bull****. and i am very mad an upset at the same time, and needed to vent.

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hmm, i never really look at it that way. I was always pretty mechanically inclined. I know how stuff works, but i'm sure the machine tech class would help. I was going to take the class because it looked interesting. But i like Mechanical drafting. I don't like architectural. Yeah i guess you guys are rite.

But it wasn't to make me press a button faster on the CAD program, it was a 2 year class he teaches you stuff this year, and more stuff next year. There is a lot within the program that i DON'T know how to do. (But i guess thats what tech schools are for...)

Well, thanks guys, you have opened my eyes a little more. I'm going to sign up for the Machine tech. hopefully it helps me. But the whole situation still blows my mind.

Thanks

The teacher was pretty good. Tough us more than pressing buttons. We had to design and build a battle bot (design it, make the "blue prints" [under 15lbs]) send it to machine shop and have them make the parts. Took about 3 months with 4 people, an hour a day to get it from a piece of paper to the real deal. (even though 2 people in my group did absolutely nothing. and there was a couple.... didn't do anything days.) Then we competed at a mall with a bunch of other schools. But our teacher didn't choose our robot. Which he regretted later on. He still has it, and he is going to use MY robot as an example to other classes for next year. I don't have the pictures, but i have what it looks like on the computer (like built on the computer). I really liked the class. This year we were going to build battle bots, and submarines. But i wont be in the class. :( I even designed a part to fix his vacuum when i broke it then we printed it off in the 3d plastic printer. (which is awesome!) and it worked!

All in all REALLY liked the class. We used Some AutoCAD, But mainly Autodesk Inventor 2008. He gave everyone student copy of the program to use at home, and I've been messing around with it. Actually just started to design an engine. (don't expect it to actually work, but just to get experience of making a block, and putting watter ways threw it for liquid cooling, and all the ports and whatnot) Didn't get that far because i only get to work on it when I'm at my dads because thats the only computer that will run it.

But i do agree that taking the machine tech class would help. So ill be signing up for that if there is no possible way that i can get back into the class. And i just think architectural is boring. I can only do it for so long. But i love designing mechanical stuff. And thanks for the input. :cool: