Learning never stops

Wow!  It’s my first day of school.

I remember going off to my first days of school at various times in my life.  There was kindergarten at some private school in Pasadena.  Then there was starting 1st grade which I still either recall or I’ve just made up a fake memory for it with mom taking me to class too.  There were plenty of brown bag school lunches and even a couple lunchboxes that are probably worth 10-grand, if new.

Starting my undergrad was a big deal as I moved myself to Goleta to attend UCSB.  I had to find an apartment and figure out roommates.

Getting my MBA was cool.  There was a lot of orientation stuff that somehow mixed booze into the formula so the orientation events were actually more fun than not.  I recall going to my first class on my first day, driving 30 minutes to school, parking, walking across campus, meeting up with some other new students for coffee then off to a Managmenet Science course that was being taught by a new MS professor.  It was at 8am.  Being near last in the alphabet is still a curse I thought to myself when I had to register for those 8am courses my first semester.

Today,  I don’t drink coffee, mom is in a nursing facility in California (fortunately my sister lives nearby), and I don’t even leave home to attend class.  Heck I didn’t even leave home to go get books thanks to Amazon, ebay, and other places.  Now the books come to me via FedEx Ground, USPS, and UPS.

Change happens.

I’ve logged into both courses and I really don’t know what to expect of the courses.  What I mean by that is I don’t know what the course dynamic will be like.  I know what the reading material is and I have some idea as to the content of each course.  What really makes a course is the students and the instructor.  As a former instructor I know  that instructors have good and bad days and classes vary too.

I’m interested and excited to see what will happen.

No one will be making me sack lunches for this degree – I love you mom.