Posted on 02/23/2017 at 03:04 AM
| Filed Under Blogs
I'm the same way often times, though I do understand having fluff conversations to make you more likeable ... But being a waiter taught me that, not college.
Honestly, for me, college was just a challenge to get through more than anything. I've always learned more by just researching things I'm interested in than I have from class requirements. Working for Residence Life in undergrad made me more introverted than anything. Grad school was more about being willing to work an insane amount than it was being smart. My professor job is showing me I still really need to work on time management and organizational skills.
I'm also learning that I take English writing skills for granted, cause when my students write things that make NO sense and are grammatically awful, I have a hard time pointing out specifically why.
College is really what you make of it. We tell our students all the time they need to be doing more than we give them, cause what we give them is partly based on how long/big a project we can realistically get graded in a reasonable time frame.