As I embark on what has become my seventh year at Santa Rosa Junior College, I am super stoked to be taking the last class I need to complete my AA in Religious Studies. That's not to say that I'm done here - I've just switched majors so many times since I began my college career that by the time I finish the transfer requirements for SSU (fingers crossed for Fall 2018) I'll have completed AA's in Religious Studies, Philosophy, Humanities, and Child Development. One of these things is not like the other, I know. I began my time at SRJC in the ECE Department, and over the Spring 2016 semester I FINALLY completed my student teaching requirement, so now I'm creeping ever closer to being a legal and bonafide preschool teacher. It's really easy to become distracted from your educational goals when you have to work two jobs to make rent in a shitty two bedroom apartment where termite mounds appear each morning atop the kitchen linoleum and your landlord asks you to pay him in cash and leave the money in the washing machine so he can send someone to pick it up... but we're paying to live in beautiful Sonoma County and that makes it worth it, right?
Anyway, I'm glad to be back in a religion course. I wish I could say I will pursue the study of my passion from here onward, but I was hit hard with the cold reality that if I'm going to continue living in California and try to pay my own way and make it through a Bachelors and then Masters program and avoid getting fucked with/by student loans I needed to give up my dream of living forever in academia, collecting globes and bibles, and pursue a secondary passion that will provide a sufficient salary. So I decided to be a teacher. HAHAHA!
Class is going well for me so far. This is the first summer term in which I've taken several 3+unit classes, and I don't know what I was expecting but wow, so much for an easy breezy semester! I have ten assigned chapters to read this week alone, thank godx I no longer have to work two jobs to survive - there's no way I could pull this off if that were still the case. This class has both the lightest assigned readings and the best textbooks, however, so thanks for that. Thanks for requiring the Scribd subscription instead of the physical copies as well, that's really ingenious and so, so helpful.
I'm looking forward to learning more about the scholars we were introduced to in the first assigned chapters. Several I knew by name of course, but I've never studied the studiers, as it were. I'm also actually really excited to adopt the character of Freud. Initially I thought that these blog posts were meant to be posted from the perspective of our characters, which I thought was hilarious, and I might still try to do on my own.
Thanks for a good first week, and thanks for acting like a people and not an online instructor robot.
