[4032] in Depressing_Thoughts
classes
jtidwell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtidwell@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 23 15:49:58 1993
I'm taking a night class (one evening a week) in graphic design at
the Mass. College of Art. It's a reasonably good class -- the teacher
is well-meaning but not fantastic -- but I've found myself being a
much more aggressive student than I ever was at MIT. I ask a lot of
questions, I'm not afraid to express an opinion (even knowing I may
make a total fool of myself), and so forth.
And I don't know why. Is it that I want to get my money's worth out
of this class? Or my time's worth? (My company is paying for it
anyway.) Is it that when I was at MIT, I was always too tired to
participate as much as I could have? Or too apathetic? Or was I
subconsciously too intimidated by my MIT classes? Any of these
possibilities seem to ring true, at least a little bit.
So, on the one hand, I'm happy that I'm getting a lot out of this class
already. (It's kind of cool to see what another school is like,
actually.)
On the other hand, I'm beginning to wonder if I didn't waste a lot of
opportunity while I was at MIT. I wonder if I could have gotten more
out of my classes, if I had put more into them. (But then I would have
burned out faster... who knows.)
