I love freshman classes

Technically, I am a senior.  I have accumulated enough credits for NMU to think that I am somewhere in the vicinity of graduation.  This can’t be farther from the truth.  I have started taking CIS (computer information systems) classes at the request of my employer.  These classes are very far removed from the Speech Communication classes (and other various botched attempts) that make up my credit list.  So, I have to take the lower level CIS classes to “get up to speed”. 

 

One class in particular, Intro to networking concepts (note INTRO) seems to be aimed at even the lowliest computer users.  Yeah you have to want to take this class, but if you do, you already know most if not all of what we have covered in the first two weeks of class.  Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining.  My senior status speaks nothing of my GPA which is not all that high (note the previously mentioned “blotched attempts”) and a class like this can only help bring it a little higher.  So today we had a quiz.  This was not a pop quiz, the instructor told us we were going to have it at our last class.  Here’s the kicker…We spent the first half of class going over, in detail, the review questions in the book.  Now, the quiz questions weren’t directly from there, but they were pretty darn close.  The prof walked us right through the answers.  He even gave us “tips” on how to study and retain this information.  I am not saying that I aced the test, but I’m sure I did pretty well.  But I guarantee that there will be at least one person in this class (probably a freshman) who didn’t read and didn’t pay attention as we were handed the answers on a silver platter.

 

Anyway, for me, I gotta tell you, I love freshman classes!!