I don't know if you know this, but my favorite thing about school is when I learn something in one class and can form a connection from it to another class or to real life. I know it's super nerdy of me to say, but it really is something I love and I've missed it. When I was getting my undergrad, I loved being able to connect something I learned in one class to something I was learning in another (especially if it was within the same time period). I think it all goes back to when I was little:
When I was in preschool/daycare, as soon as I came home I would watch Sesame Street and then Batman (dun na nuna nuna nuna duna nuna nuna nuna BATMAN!). I thought it was the coolest thing ever when the letter they learned on Sesame Street was the same letter I learned at preschool! It didn't happen all the time, but when it did, I got so excited. I would shout out that I learned that letter too! Yeah... way cool.
Now, that I'm back in school again and really my classes are about making connections to what we are reading and studying about to what's going on in the real world, it's a little easier for me to recognize those connections. I still get excited though. It's like a brief little happy moment when I realize that I can relate something in the theory I'm reading to what happened to me last week or to a show I watched.
Want to see what I mean? Well, because I worked so dang hard on it and if you haven't done so already, you should check out my school blog post. It's all about the connections I recently had between my reading and a couple TV shows and movies.
Anyway... hope everyone is excited for the fall. I'm just hoping I won't die by the end of it. Let's hope these brief little happy moments can sustain me.
4 comments:
I hope you don't die either...I would miss you too much in my life! Don't work too hard :)
Thanks Jessica! So far... I'm still alive. :)
You are not alone--I too get super excited about making connections. In fact in my reading, they keep bringing up stuff I learned in stat and stuff I learned in basic skills and stuff I'm learning now in life-span is in my reading for my career counseling reading. Then I see other stuff in the news or I hear something that reminds me of what I've learned and I sometimes can't stop myself from sharing. I know I sound like I think I'm an expert, but really it's just that I'm like you, I get excited that I know something that connects and it makes me feel like I'm actually using my time learning valid and important information. In conclusion, I will nerd out with you.
Ok, bye. :)
Good, I'm glad we can nerd out together. :)
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