just one more year of RISD. taking a sculpture+robotics course, which should be cool. trying to get into ceramics and electric vehicle design, as well. and then art history.. because... i have to.
It can't possibly be 15 hours straight, is it? What does it entail? How many things do you have to cook?
It's split a little unevenly over two days. First, we have an extensive written test with a few parts to it. Part of it is just standard 'do you know this?' sort of questions - what the dimensions are for all the cuts, what the recipes are for all the mother sauces and other common french dishes, as well as health and safety questions and some history (Escoffier mostly). The second part is critical thinking. For instance, I know that one part of that, we'll be randomly assigned two cuisines and have to design a three course fusion menu for the combination. Stuff like that. We weren't told exactly what all the questions would be ahead of time.
The second part of the final is actually cooking. There'll be a knife drill for sure. Then we'll have to make a stock, all the mother sauces, french onion soup, mayonnaise, whipped cream, eggs in a variety of ways (including a '45 second omelette' =P), crepes, risotto milanese, quiche, pesto, and some other basic stuff I'm probably forgetting. We'll have to show we know how to do all the cooking techniques perfectly - braise meat, poach fish, steam vegetables, fry chicken, etc, etc. Then we'll have a 'mystery basket' - those of you that watch the food network to any degree probably know how this works - where we're given a basket of stupidly incongruous ingredients and have to make four-six dishes featuring them in a limited period of time.
The third part is done as a class, which is the second day of the final. We design the menu for our graduation ceremony (those of us that graduate, anyway). And then we go out and buy all the stuff for it (with school munnies =D) and prep it to the extent that we can. The following day will be the graduation (and we'll find out if we passed or not). A group of underclassmen will take the prepped food, cook it, and serve it for us and our families, which will be awesome.
The third part is done as a class, which is the second day of the final. We design the menu for our graduation ceremony (those of us that graduate, anyway). And then we go out and buy all the stuff for it (with school munnies =D) and prep it to the extent that we can. The following day will be the graduation (and we'll find out if we passed or not). A group of underclassmen will take the prepped food, cook it, and serve it for us and our families, which will be awesome.
That is the best fucking thing I've ever heard.
Culinary school is way cooler than whatever the fuck we're all doing.
It can't possibly be 15 hours straight, is it? What does it entail? How many things do you have to cook?
Being a certified chef entails a lot more than just cooking food. So yes, you can easily have straight 15 hour days in your professional life. Managing a kitchen is hard, yo.
I start classes the monday after next. I've got web design, my second cs class, theory of knowledge, and some easy algebra class I have to take because I took the wrong one last year >_> I'm happy with my schedule, especially since I have no class on tuesdays and I get out at noon thursdays and fridays. Woot
That sounds like it is made of win. Perhaps there is some free open courseware for a similar class?
I thought so too. I'll look into that. It would certainly come in handy. I know I was able to find my epistemology book on The Pirate Bay if you wanna check it out.
Alright, I'm finally back from the last part of my final. Good god am I tired. Not to mention, my hands feel like shit. I shit no one when I say that, in a single day, my right thumb has gotten burnt to blistering and peeling on an open flame, hacked open with an oyster knife, dunked in a mixture of salt, lemon juice, crushed red pepper, vinegar, and toasted mustard seeds (I was pickling some carrots), burnt again on a 500 degree over rack, and then had a steel freezer door closed on it. The other fingers have faired only slightly better. If I get out of this profession looking any better than a woodshop teacher, it'll be a miracle. =P
(Graduation tomorrow, and as far as I know, I'm passing, so that's awesome.)
Going back to school starting Labor Day, excited to see friends, less excited to be doing work.
I finally get to start taking programming courses this semester (I couldn't at all last year because of bad scheduling), as well as Discrete Math, Ordinary Differential Equations, a physics lab, post-Civil War intellectual history, and a required history/literature/philosophy course that I didn't get the professor I wanted for, because Columbia regularly fucks over its engineers when it comes to scheduling. In addition to everything else.
Today was my first day of college, and it could not have been more boring. In all the classes, it was just mere reading the syllabus and what to expect. I'm in the general engineering major right now, but I will change that into something more specific as time goes on. My classes are Introduction to Psychology, Calculus for Engineers I, crappy English class, Intro to Engineering Design I, General Chemistry (which looks like it is going to be one bitch of a class), and the ASU XP Class, where you learn to wipe your butt and shower. My schedule is absolute crap because I attempted to focus all of my classes into the mornings, but two classes were only offered in the afternoon, and the ASU XP Class screwed over my Friday for this semester, so practically everyday I am at school from 7am to 2pm or 6pm, instead of 7am to 11am.
I have a two hour bus to school (it's not actually that far away, but the bus is hella slow and has lots of stops) so I was glad when I got my schedule for this year and found no classes before 10 am. No more getting up before the crack of dawn to wait for the bus!
(Last semester, I had a 9:30 class one day with a 8 am class the next and a two hour bus ride both ways. Extremely not fun.)
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The second part of the final is actually cooking. There'll be a knife drill for sure. Then we'll have to make a stock, all the mother sauces, french onion soup, mayonnaise, whipped cream, eggs in a variety of ways (including a '45 second omelette' =P), crepes, risotto milanese, quiche, pesto, and some other basic stuff I'm probably forgetting. We'll have to show we know how to do all the cooking techniques perfectly - braise meat, poach fish, steam vegetables, fry chicken, etc, etc. Then we'll have a 'mystery basket' - those of you that watch the food network to any degree probably know how this works - where we're given a basket of stupidly incongruous ingredients and have to make four-six dishes featuring them in a limited period of time.
The third part is done as a class, which is the second day of the final. We design the menu for our graduation ceremony (those of us that graduate, anyway). And then we go out and buy all the stuff for it (with school munnies =D) and prep it to the extent that we can. The following day will be the graduation (and we'll find out if we passed or not). A group of underclassmen will take the prepped food, cook it, and serve it for us and our families, which will be awesome.
(Graduation tomorrow, and as far as I know, I'm passing, so that's awesome.)
I finally get to start taking programming courses this semester (I couldn't at all last year because of bad scheduling), as well as Discrete Math, Ordinary Differential Equations, a physics lab, post-Civil War intellectual history, and a required history/literature/philosophy course that I didn't get the professor I wanted for, because Columbia regularly fucks over its engineers when it comes to scheduling. In addition to everything else.
(Last semester, I had a 9:30 class one day with a 8 am class the next and a two hour bus ride both ways. Extremely not fun.)