Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Boston

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  I just finished the baking and pastry certificate program there. I'll start off by saying that there wasn't a single day that I woke up and didn't want to go to school. My main issue with the program was that our class had one instructor for three out of the five classes we had over the nine months. Compared to the other two, this instructor was very slow with his demonstrations, and usually took up a third of the class with lectures, leaving us with maybe an hour of production time, on most days. There were a lot of items that we never got around to baking, because he took a number of days to demonstrate something that should have only taken one class. Despite the amount of time he took to explain things, he was very knowledgeable and provided us with many sources from which we could expand our education. I only wish he'd have left it to the end of class, so we could have more hands-on time. The other two instructors we had were wonderful. They were strict, but I feel that I learned the most from them. Parking is also not included in the $18,000 tuition. There is a parking lot across the street that you can park in for an additional $220/month, you can walk a mile to the Lechmere station, and pay $6/day, or you can risk a ticket with the 2 hour street parking. As baking students, we didn't need to use the extensive online library for any research, which (according to the librarian) is what a big portion of the tuition is used for. That said, I did learn a lot, and don't regret going there. I'm just disappointed that we had that one instructor for three of our classes, and were unable to learn a lot of what we could have if we'd had another instructor.
  By Tabitha Rose, August 20, 2017

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