Great school good resources helpful teachers. Very knowledgeable and willing to go the extra bit to make sure you get what you need.
I waited on the phone 40 min because I was unable to register for my classes, because no one can effectively communicate. The IT people kept telling me there was something wrong with my browser. She did it herself and there wasn't. Then I get put over to another person and she tells me it is too early to register. When I talked to someone and they took off my holds on my account so I could register. This whole have to be advised before being able to register is not right. Isn't the intent to want to take classes ones own option. I honestly have received terrible service! I feel like not even attending !!
Current Music Recording Student
*Disclaimer* The review score is not reflecting the course content, read on.
So far, the content of the program has been GREAT. All my teachers, from the Audio I instructor Jonathon Belec, to the Audio lab instructor Bob Potter to my drum teacher Jillian Pritchard have been very intelligent, easy to follow, courteous, and enthusiastic to teach. My only frustrations with the program lie in their requirements, but more importantly, their scheduling. It is required to take Music Theory all 4 semesters to graduate, and although I see the benefit in this, 4 semesters (for a recording major) seem like overkill. And if you're the average modern day musician (aka me and most of my musician friends) you don't know a thing about reading music. So you'll be put in a Basic Musicianship class, which must be passed before you can move on to your first Music Theory. This puts you behind a semester, as they currently have no summer or winter classes where you can catch up. Here is my main frustration: commuters like me already have to face the fact that the only campus that has music classes is in Canandaigua and they provide no online option for the music classes necessary to Recording students. And the classes that are available have scheduling conflicts. For example, the spring Theory class which has a M/W/F option or a T/Th option for both the class and lab, but the class and lab have the same start times, so there is no way around driving to school every day. This all seems strange to me, as the Recording program in particular appears to be popular at FLCC, so you'd think they'd maybe offer an off-season class, or at least start offering a few classes at their other locations or online. Quite simply, this program assumes that all the classmates are residents, where in reality, I (along with a good percentage of my college friends) are commuters, and their scheduling issues are inconvenient.
Great staff, great faculty, and a great value proposition for college. Community colleges are too often dismissed as a viable option for high school seniors. The reality is that community colleges are one of the best opportunities for incoming freshmen - they typically have a staff that can spend time with students, a price tag that is ultra-affordable, and a great place to spend the first two years of college. Finger Lakes is no exception to this, and it has the benefit of being nestled in the heart of the picturesque Finger Lakes region.
Beautiful buildings, we registered for classes with ease. The staff there are so helpful and kind.
Great classes. You see a lot of your old friends here most of the time as well.
After not being here for nearly 2 decades, went to 2 concerts this summer. I won't go back.
Pros:
- Decent monitors to help see what's happening.
- Ok sight lines from inside the shell
Cons:
- Horrible sound. Of the dozen venues over been to in the last five years, this was the worst by a wide margin. I think the newly added luxury boxes cause higher frequencies to rebound back toward the stage. Vocals, sung or spoken, ate unintelligible
- Parking. There's no place in the immediate area other than the site to park, and walking to the venue is not possible, so the parking charge is just greed. To to it off, there's no traffic control after the show, and only one exit, so it's a Mad Max/Lord of the Flies wasteland trying to leave. Tough not as bad as Darien Lake
- Pedestrian flow. There are only one or two staircases out, they become choke points.
- Food/beverage pricing. High, like everyplace else, I suppose. Water is $4. The only "deal" is wine, $15 for 3 glasses equivalent.
Back beige the renovation, when I knew it as FLPAC, this was a decent venue, but now It would take a major, reclusive artist to get me back, but even then I would travel 2-3 hours over returning.
Was that CMAC the Sands Performing Arts Center ran into some trouble due to a miscommunication with the parking staff the people in charge cleared it up right away. Got to see The Who pretty much in my own backyard. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Terrific show good venue
Greatest place in this area too see a show.. Honestly.. Decent prices in beer, not too big so even on lawn the view is decent.
Felt to much like highschool some of the professors were rude the food isn't that good, the parking is terrible absolutely hated it there
It's a good campus, kept clean, security is good, a little pricey though
Some staff are extremely rude. I was taking two courses here and had the same issue with the teachers. We were given homework and were told that if we had questions to email them. When I had questions I would email them and I was given very rude and disrespectful responses. It even got to the point where the professor would insult me. Some assignments we would have to submit through blackboard. An issue occurred where some of my work was not appearing on blackboard thus I received low marks on the assignment. I confronted the professor and he accused me of cheating and not actually doing the work. I had my laptop with me to show him my original work. On Word, Excel, etc you can see what times you modified your documents. I showed him that I had not touched the document since it was turned in. He went on to tell me to "drop it". I have never dealt with professors that behaved in this manor and thus dropped both classes.
Fair education, but some professor's of the sciences are not as dedicated to teaching as they should be!
I have hired 2 people from their computer scienece program in the last year. Best employees I have ever had.