I'm Very Studious, You Know.
Well, perhaps not. But I am a student again. I've just registered and paid for my basic digital photography class, which starts next week. I am both nervous and excited about it.
I love being a student. I had such a great experience at Keiser College in Tallahassee, where I got my AS in network engineering. I loved being in class. I loved the interaction with my teachers and the other students, and I loved my time in Phi Theta Kappa. (I actually ran for office and was elected twice, once as vice president and once as president. That is so not like me.) I even loved taking tests. I realized after I finished at Keiser that I really couldn't care less about computer networking, which makes the mountains of student debt seem at first glance to be a disastrous waste, but I learned a lot about myself in those couple of years and I think it was worth it. So now I'll get to do the student thing again, even if it is only for a few weeks, and I'll be learning something I'm really interested in. I am so, so excited about that.
The nervousness is all about doing something new, and doing it all by myself. I'll have to find this place that I've never been to before, find the right room, walk in all alone, and interact with people I don't know. I know that last part seems an odd thing to be nervous about considering my raving about enjoying interacting with people at Keiser, but I had the same nervousness about that, too. I didn't get to the loving it part until I'd been to a few classes and they became people I knew rather than a bunch of strangers. I'm also really not thrilled about the idea of looking like an idiot in front of these people, and I think the potential for that is probably pretty high given that really, I know SFA about photography.
All in all, though, the excitement is outweighing the nervousness. I'm really looking forward to this.
I love being a student. I had such a great experience at Keiser College in Tallahassee, where I got my AS in network engineering. I loved being in class. I loved the interaction with my teachers and the other students, and I loved my time in Phi Theta Kappa. (I actually ran for office and was elected twice, once as vice president and once as president. That is so not like me.) I even loved taking tests. I realized after I finished at Keiser that I really couldn't care less about computer networking, which makes the mountains of student debt seem at first glance to be a disastrous waste, but I learned a lot about myself in those couple of years and I think it was worth it. So now I'll get to do the student thing again, even if it is only for a few weeks, and I'll be learning something I'm really interested in. I am so, so excited about that.
The nervousness is all about doing something new, and doing it all by myself. I'll have to find this place that I've never been to before, find the right room, walk in all alone, and interact with people I don't know. I know that last part seems an odd thing to be nervous about considering my raving about enjoying interacting with people at Keiser, but I had the same nervousness about that, too. I didn't get to the loving it part until I'd been to a few classes and they became people I knew rather than a bunch of strangers. I'm also really not thrilled about the idea of looking like an idiot in front of these people, and I think the potential for that is probably pretty high given that really, I know SFA about photography.
All in all, though, the excitement is outweighing the nervousness. I'm really looking forward to this.