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O0O00O000O0000O t1_iv7d613 wrote

Because Americas mayor trying to ruin someone’s life through the court system and almost getting away with it is sadly a theme in todays world. We don’t live in the land of the free we live in an overly litigious bureaucratic hierarchy where you can be ruined for tapping someone on the back and saying what’s up asshole if they’re rich and powerful enough.

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_iv6mqv9 wrote

Because that’s America in a nutshell. The powerful use the courts for whatever they want.

We live in a country where poisoning water warrants a $100,000 fine and smoking a handful of weed can get you 20 years.

If you are rich and powerful you can appeal until the end of time. And no media really calls a spade a spade because everything must be alleged, and pro status quo. It’s ridiculous.

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_itzqxma wrote

Yes, also had a director call a student the N-word. I also had a weather professor who only taught us about outdated meteorological instruments instead of tornados and hurricanes. Another professor in scenic design wanted us to fully learn architecture software in one weekend and replicate the interior of the Albany theatre, again in one weekend. Two kids were murdered while I was there. During one of them, they didn’t even send out a warning text so everyone on campus was sheltering based off word of mouth. Two of my most prominent professors were divorced and would argue about their marriage in the basement that’s how I figured out one had been cheating on the other. During one year, our theatre department, which was the largest in the world at the time, had one role for males in the entire year… a villain role. They also wanted to put on a play that included black people in white face and white people in blackface. Me personally, I was in a severely abusive relationship and I lived in a building that was a civil war hospital. I was terribly haunted and items would appear in my car like a bag of salt inside my taillight, a strange painted stone inside the crawl space I had previously cleaned out, or a drawing of a man hiding his face appearing inside my room. I have a fear of men hiding their faces ever since a man tired to attack me on my street but hid his face with his hands and ran when I saw him. I also would randomly throw up blood and the doctors didn’t know what it was. And I got arrested on false premises for drugs I didn’t have.

College was rough to say the least.

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_itxrled wrote

This was at The university of Texas at Austin. During this time they had an English professor ask students to send feet pics.

He wasn’t fired.

Also had a business law and ethics professor illegally charging students for ATTENDENCE.

Also not fired.

I tell everyone I know not to go there. Terrible school. Luckily I took the opposite of that professors advice and now I work at a theatre that isn’t owned by live nation and Ticketmaster. And I’m not on broadway with people who only care about margins and not art.

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O0O00O000O0000O t1_itx1lto wrote

My last year of college was during the pandemic. I was taking a business of entertainment class. My teacher was straight up bad and was a producer in 5 different projects during the semester.

Anyways, the only grade we received would be over our final project. She never put us into group for the project and we had to go to other professors just to get in contact with the department. Again, she was too busy making money on broadway.

The department chose our product to be based in VR. As we were now being judged by a different professor, this new one basically said “all VR is terribly unprofitable”. Forced to give a presentation on a vr product that doesn’t exist we come up with a virtual music festival in VR.

When the time to present comes the professor is magically back in class. The professor and all her fat cat business friends who are here to get free ideas from the next generation spent like thirty minutes shitting on our idea with basically the only problem being VR is unprofitable. She gave us the lowest grade without failing us.

TLDR spent 6 months of my life trying to get in contact with my professor while she demanded we do a project on VR as she’s making it big on broadway, we present the meta verse and her and all her fat cat friends are appalled we would present on VR after we were forced to, and they are disgusted that we didn’t somehow come up with the new revolution in entertainment for absolutely free.

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