The Art Institute of Las Vegas (or college in general): Internships

The idea of college is swell.  The execution is hilarious.

Basically, you pay to go somewhere to be taught a career.  Then, you are expected to get internships, most of which you are not paid to do.  You are paying to work for free.  Then, after all of that, you still aren't even guaranteed a great paying job in your career (or anywhere) field!

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: General Education Courses

Where do I go with the Gen Eds?  I sure don't go far, that's for sure.

This is an art school, so of course the majority of general education classes offered are art related.  They were tossed in mostly with Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, a random Spanish or French level 1 course tossed in every so often and a few other classes.  For a couple years I asked when Economics was going to be offered, and it never was.

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: Student Mentors

When I arrived at The Art Institute of Las Vegas, I received a Student Mentor.  The mentors are essentially guides for new students.  Ideally, the mentor is in the same field as the student so the mentor can help the student more effectively. 

The Art Institute of Las Vegas: Student Presentations

I'm going to preface this by stating that I'm probably going to upset some of my friends!

The amount of time I have wasted sitting through trashy, nearly worthless student presentations is unacceptable.  Sometimes student presentations would literally crossover in to the following weeks' classes because most of the instructors almost all of the time let students "BS" for as long as the students want.  One time, a student rambled on for over a half hour!  That thirty minutes cost each student observing the presentation about $15!

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: "Helpful" Students

I am not sure if this is just local to Las Vegas, but boy howdy do students around here not really care for each other nearly as much as they should.

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Review: Faculty Shake Up = Excuses

In my first year at the Art Institute, there were some changes in the faculty going on.  Some instructors, some in management.  Still, everything appeared as normal.

However, after my first year, there was suppose to be a "portfolio review" that never happened.  I vaguely remember this causing a bit of a disturbance when my second year portfolio review came up. 

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Review: Housing Costs

It's hard for me to post on this subject because I have never lived in housing at AILV, but from what I've seen and heard from people who have lived there, it seems like a total sham.  The very first thing you need to do is look at how much it costs per month for a student to live there

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Review: Guards or Gophers

When you walk in to the front doors of The Art Institute of Las Vegas, there is a security desk with a security guard.  S/He is in charge of checking the ID's of students and faculty, making sure guests sign in, and watching the multitude of security cameras throughout the school.  However, this is not all they do.

Here are a few other tasks I have seen the security guards perform:

The Art Institute of Las Vegas Reviews: Email Communication

One thing I grew sick of hearing was instructors not responding to emails from students.