1/2 way through the hardest class so far!

I have been in the Cuisines of the Mediterraneans class for one week now. I have to say it has been the most difficult class (in a good and bad way) that I have taken here at school. The chef expects a lot, but not too much. She re-iterates how the class has prerequisites, and we have to meet them. We have made stupid mistakes just because we do not do our research. To make this easier to understand, here are the Pros and Cons

Cons:
*Chef is not afraid to tell you your product sucks
*Chef will tell you to start something over, rather than learn how to fix it
*Chef will make you look and feel like an idiot...in front of your classmates
*Chef will talk down to you like you know nothing
*Chef will threaten us....not life threatening or anything, but you know
*Chef expects us to know certain things in the class that we just do NOT know....

Pros:
*Chef is not afraid to tell you your product stinks: she tells the truth
*Chef will work with you if you cannot figure something out (I made churro dough FOUR times before I got it right!!!!)
*Chef will compliment you, if you deserve it
*Chef pushes you to do your best and try your hardest
*Chef constantly reminds us how much money we pay to go to this school and that we should do whatever we can to learn


I think I can say she is the best chef I have ever had because I am really learning from her. She instills a sense of urgency and fear to complete everything on time and to do our research. She does ask questions in class about how much research we have done for that day....often times, it is very little....getting better at that!
*Chef does not spoon feed us information