Back in school after eight years… What a joy school truly is. I have been integrated into my department as part time staff, which I am very thankful for the opportunity. I am excited about having a career path I can truly be excited about with passion and enthusiasm. Being able to make a difference for the health of our planet and future generation’s sustainability in energy means a great deal to me.
In English I had the privilege of reading some of the greater works in literary essays; some highly thought provoking. At one point, some of the topics were so intense that I literally had to get up and leave class for about five minutes so I could relax. How interesting it can be when fundamental issues like evolution, communism, socialism, and more are discussed in an English class. I did get a chance to reflect fairly heavily on why my reactions to the topic content got me so heated, and I believe I learned a valuable lesson about patience and optimism. I do hope that my teacher isn’t mad at me. I’ve enjoyed his outlook on literature and the way he runs an effective and always tightly crammed curriculum into the three hours per week that we as a class get to spend together.
As I am writing this blog assignment, I am looking out the window next to my computer; It’s already seven thirty at night, and still the sun is shining brightly out the window. Today is by far the warmest day all year, and summer fever is running rampant around the school. All the girls wearing their summer skirts and sandals, the guys taking off shirts to study for a final exam or finish their last projects of the semester out in the sun or under the shade of a tree. It’s hard to believe that the year is really over. I am still trying to decide what classes, if any, that I would like to take during the summer semester. Unfortunately most of the classes I need to take are not being offered during the summer semester; its quite frustrating to say the least! I think I have a bone to pick with my department head about that… It’s fairly difficult to stay in school full time if there aren’t any classes to take.
I learned there is not a whole lot of woman in my department, mostly plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters, etc. Needless to say I am not here just for the girls, but I am not going to lie and say that they aren’t a huge perk of going to college at the ripe old age of 26. It makes me wonder if that is true of the renewable energy profession as a whole, or if the school just hasn’t targeted a female student body for degrees/certificates in that area. I mean come on, who wouldn’t want to hang out in the sun and save the planet? I think because the department is so new, the amount of female students in the department will increase as it becomes more widely know that there is an actual associates degree in solar, solar thermal, and wind technologies. I personally am excited to get all three degrees as there is only about a sixteen credit difference between each one. As this semester is coming to a close in several days I am realizing how much work I might really have in front of me if I do complete all three degree programs (not to mention my web design certificate on top of everything else).
