PPE, EXAM TIME, EYES DOWN, NO CHEATING
For those of you getting ready to sit the most pointless exam ever devised, good luck. If you fail there is no way you can re-sit it. The LI have come to realise that the 3 hour written paper is complete nonsense. Regurgitate, write down and then sit the oral! No wonder the landscape degree courses aren't getting the numbers they used to. Anyway the written exam has been axed. Those of you who missed this golden opportunity to waste your summer revising can look forward to following the professional pathway to nowhere. Follow the yellow brick road more like, click your site boots three times and flying LI monkeys will appear and carry you off to a secret room where you are interrogated by the institute president and then given an oral!
By the way has anyone else been sent a letter from the LI offering to pay you £100 to go to a discussion session? Another good use of our subscription fees! Is our institute so terrible that they have to PAY us to go and talk about it? Looks like the LI have already answered that one for us!
posted by Institute President at 3:19 PM
4 Comments:
'Is our institute so terrible that they have to PAY us to go and talk about it?'
Another way or phrasing that might be 'is the institute comprised of members so trite, bitter and pathetic that they stand on the sidelines and moan about subscription fees, ineffective officers and general irrelevance, rather than engaging and at least trying to change things'. Maybe it’s only fair to tarnish certain members with that brush; perhaps the ones who choose to put their energies into setting up (admittedly rather witty) websites rather than doing something about the poor quality of the LI.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of the LI, but bashing them over the fact that they have to pay to consult their own membership is as much an indicator of the apathetic membership as it is a reflection on the LI’s deficiencies.
PS. I would post with my name but I don't want hundreds of spam mails from Blogger. You can usually find me in the Hope off Tottenham Court Road on a Friday night, if you want a proper argument…..
Trite, bitter and pathetic....how rude. Surely the fact that you spent ten minutes of your time writing this comment proves that you too fall under the same category? The Fried Egg Institute prides itself on not being fair, clever or constructive. It is what it is, if you don't like it then the LI website has lots of interesting things on offer to someone like yourself. I just had a quick look, there are some riveting news stories such as 'New Chief Executive for Thames Gateway announced' I started to read it but lost the will to live by the second paragraph.
PS. If you want a drink thrown in your face I'll be in the Nags Head off Old Compton Street later tonight xx
Hello everyone, it's me, the fried egg institute president. I'm glad to see there are some lively debates going on but can we please all refrain from using threatening language!
Throwing ones beverage into another’s face belongs in the realms of the soap opera.
Ding...round two.....
'Trite, bitter and pathetic....how rude. Surely the fact that you spent ten minutes of your time writing this comment proves that you too fall under the same category?'
Er, not quite sure about your logic on that one; am I the above by association? If so, so is everyone else posting here.....right OK so no fighting on the Fried Egg Institute's website (by request of the President - all hail etc).....'If you want a drink thrown in your face I'll be in the Nags Head off Old Compton Street later tonight xx' I was merely suggesting a heated debate, but if it throwing a drink in my face will make you feel better then fine....
Ah ha, so Dai Lewis suggests we join the latest LI talking shop, I'm sure we should, perhaps we should also have a Fried Egg Institute version too. Are LI members allowed to suggest things for the Fried Egg Institute?
Dai also goes on; 'Members seem to ignore the fact that THEY are the LI. The mythical beast which everyone refers to as the LI is a small collection of 'paper pushers' and some elected members just like the rest of you.' This being my point see above comment......apathetic membership etc......Dai is right; members do seem to be brilliant at absolving themselves from responsibility for their profession.
Oh and on the LI Website, I’m surprised you managed to find an article to read (although not that you almost died of boredom. After being thrilled that the interface had been changed, I discover that instead of making things easier, the designers have just made everything you couldn't find before easy to find and everything that was easy before they seem to have buried.....I pity anyone taking their PPE this year (best of luck by the way), the LI's PPE resources are tucked away nicely so that no-one can find them. Perhaps this is a cunning ploy to hide their brilliant PPE log-book; glorious in its word table format....I love it.
Right, rant over (I suppose I now nicely fall into the trite, bitter category).
Lots of Love.....looking forward to some more amateur dramatics from Nags Head Landscape Architecture....... :)
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