Tueswednesthur

I've decided to re-name the middle of the week, as it's really just one long, exhausting day. School is continuing to be stimulating, frustrating, sometimes humiliating and usually interesting.

My class seems to be bonding, I suspect that on the scale of classes, we're pretty tough. Lots of us are big into questioning authority, alternate viewpoints. I'm still learning to not try and put my oar in all the time. Lots of people have interesting things to add, there are no real wallflowers.

As per usual, I'm feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by this part of the week, I'll somehow pull my brain back out of the morass by Saturday or Sunday.

My leadership report thingy was actually not particularly dismaying, it seemed that my self-perception and how others percieve me are pretty close.

I liked that Moxley was so down-to-earth, and not unrealistic about how difficult it can be to apply the principals in the book to real situations.

I'll be revising and posting my PLC in the next couple weeks, should be interesting to see what emerges.

Less frustration

School is starting to be very interesting, and beginning to color how I see interaction at work. We the class and the professor seem to be adapting to each other, and the dialogue is getting meatier. We're talking on the phone to the writer of one of our textbooks this week, I'm looking forward to that.

Academic frustration

Last night was class #2. I didn't feel as overwhelmed as I did during the first one, but several frustrations emerged; 1) I'm tired, so I'm not at full thinking power, and it's difficult for me to make valid contributions. This is frustrating. 2) The language of academia is cryptic, convoluted and exclusionary. It's very difficult to suss out what the professor or the text is talking about when they're using terminology that hasn't been fully explained, in a context that hasn't been explained at all.

I'm used to working within systems that are somewhat closed. But academia has a quality that really rubs me wrong, at least so far. My perception is we're supposed to stumble around in the dark until we eventually fall over the correct terminology. Can somene direct me to a glossary?

Check this:

http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0304/features/clouding-print.html