training

I was in training all last week learning about the exciting world of Visual Basic .NET. I barely managed to stay awake for most of it. Not my fault really. Here's how it went down.

I was going to learn something that I have basically taught to myself in the past few months. I do not know everything and I was hoping this class would fill in the gaps. Anyway, The book had 11 Chapters, and each chapter ranged from 35 to 80 pages in length. The most of the pages are split in half with the top being an example or topic highlights and the bottom being an explanation. Well the instructor, and I call him this because he is far from an actual teacher, had a powerpoint of the top portions.

So with all that in mind, my week consisted of an overhead voice, he stood in the back of the room at a computer most of the week, paraphrasing the book while we looked at the a powerpoint for nearly every agonizing page of the book, cover to cover. He stood in front of any notes he managed to write and then promptly erased them before anyone saw them. There were labs that took upwards of an hour to finish, of which I might have done half.

The deck was stacked against me. I had no choice but to dose off everyday.