For better or worse the educational story

The best educational experiance came in the form of two summer courses I just completed this past semester. Both of the classes were interesting in part because of the instructor's interest. The professors were very attentive to active participation and life experiance of all the students in the class. The additional insite from other students added to the class experiance. In one of the classes we worked with each other so much that we had developed a sense of connection and cohisiveness in the classroom. I felt like the instructors for these courses really wanted the students to retain and apply the material rather than just do well in the class.

The worst experiance was also at UMBC but was due to a personal error rather than a class error. I had completed the majority of a particular course and was doing rather well but because of my work schedule and oversleeping for an exam I failed the course. The class only had four grades and were all exams. I had taken two and over slept on the third because the professor changed the date of the exam and I did not check blackboard where he posted the new date. The date of the exam was after the drop date so I was forced to take the F and retake the course losing all the hard work and money spent on that class.

Hard work will get you anywhere

As soon as I was old enough to hold a job my parents urged me to start working. I originally thought it was just so that they wouldn’t have to continue to pay for the activities I did on the weekend. Although, I now realize that while that may have had an influence on the original decision, they were trying to instill a sense of pride and hard work that comes with working. My father has always been a very hard working man and I feel as though he wanted me to be the same way. If he isn’t working in his day job he is always working around the house or in other projects, the man never sits down except to watch football on Sunday or to have a cigarette and a cup of coffee. I applied this sense of drive and goal setting to my own working career.
The first job which I took was for Chuck E. Cheese and I was with them for 3 years. In this period I worked my way up the chain of command from game room tech to manager and through all the various positions in between. I set my goal of one day achieving manager and I worked my butt off pulling extra shifts, extra work, and learning everything there was to know about the job. My second job as a security guard was the same story from security guard to sergeant in less than one year. My point is that if you set your goals and work hard to achieve them that you can do anything.
This concept of hard work does not just apply to jobs but also holds true in education. There are always harder courses than others but if one spends enough time studying, I believe that anyone is capable of getting an A or even getting an advanced degree. The problem is that some things are more important to other people than studying. This just means that studying and doing well in that course has other goals which supercede it. I am not saying that one always has to set high goals and that job promotions or educational attainment is a goal that everyone deems important. The important thing is that if you want if bad enough and put enough time and effort into the situation you can achieve whatever you want.

The "ME" generation

Our generation which has been called the "Me" generation or "Generation Me" seems to be concerned with one's own best interest all the time and our worlds seem to be very self centered. We have lived through the millennium; rightfully we should share our name with a version of Windows, a core piece of technology which the majority of us rely on daily, as we rely on all technology as a platform for our lives. We believe that we are so important that others care what is happening in our lives by using blogs, myspace, facebook, etc.

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