President's Perspective: Someday you will miss going to class
When you are a student all you want to do is get out of class. When you miss class, it isn't a big deal. You are always looking for ways to get out of class. You spend half the time not listening and you probably spend a lot of time wondering what you are doing in the first place. You know how in College/University when you are done a test, you can leave? Honestly, how long did you sit in your high school classes waiting for others to finish? Getting to leave before the class is over is sweet!
Something you may not know is that the Fanshawe Student Union President's position is a full-time job- 35 hours a week with no classes which I know sound pretty sweet. Its good hours, it's a fun job, you meet lots of people and you get lots of perks (Hello, parking spot on campus! If that isn't coveted I don't know what is!).
When I first won, I think it was a situation where I pretty much thought “whoo hoo! I get to be at school, but no classes for this girl” and then spent the days counting down until I never had to go to class again.
All summer, as all of the VPs prepared for classes and buying textbooks, I sat back for the first time in four years.
And then the buzz of students came. And it is still going. And the Student Union office was alive with bus passes, and health plan opt-outs, and students wanting to run for student council positions. But with that buzz something was missing. Something….but it couldn't be classes.
No, no. Never! How can someone miss classes? When you start working, you are out, making money, being able to afford more things. Your life is moving forward, you start thinking even more about your future, because it means that the future is now. Or could that be it? It is the fact that the future is no longer looking like 10 years down the road?
Sometimes, I look back and think, wow classes weren't that bad. I mean, sometimes they went sort of slow, but there was that feeling of actually learning something.
But I have news for you. In the work world…no one applauds if you get something right. It doesn't even matter if you were first or last, and you don't get graded on a job well done, although you MIGHT get a raise at your yearly review.
I think I miss going to classes because my future is here, now. Meanwhile the decisions I made in high school are affecting me every day. But what I don't miss is the stress of making those decisions.
I think I made good choices. I think I went to a great school and I got an education that is going to help me with where I want to be in 10 years. I learned many new things, and if I hadn't learned to try something new and do something I had never done before, I would have never run for council on a whim, and then now I would never be President.
So who knows where I would have ended up. Bet it wouldn't be as fun or as satisfying as the job I am doing right now. And from someone who is in the future now, you thank your parents, friends, family, whoever helped you get into college. Because your successes in the “future” truly are based on the work you are all doing now.
Something you may not know is that the Fanshawe Student Union President's position is a full-time job- 35 hours a week with no classes which I know sound pretty sweet. Its good hours, it's a fun job, you meet lots of people and you get lots of perks (Hello, parking spot on campus! If that isn't coveted I don't know what is!).
When I first won, I think it was a situation where I pretty much thought “whoo hoo! I get to be at school, but no classes for this girl” and then spent the days counting down until I never had to go to class again.
All summer, as all of the VPs prepared for classes and buying textbooks, I sat back for the first time in four years.
And then the buzz of students came. And it is still going. And the Student Union office was alive with bus passes, and health plan opt-outs, and students wanting to run for student council positions. But with that buzz something was missing. Something….but it couldn't be classes.
No, no. Never! How can someone miss classes? When you start working, you are out, making money, being able to afford more things. Your life is moving forward, you start thinking even more about your future, because it means that the future is now. Or could that be it? It is the fact that the future is no longer looking like 10 years down the road?
Sometimes, I look back and think, wow classes weren't that bad. I mean, sometimes they went sort of slow, but there was that feeling of actually learning something.
But I have news for you. In the work world…no one applauds if you get something right. It doesn't even matter if you were first or last, and you don't get graded on a job well done, although you MIGHT get a raise at your yearly review.
I think I miss going to classes because my future is here, now. Meanwhile the decisions I made in high school are affecting me every day. But what I don't miss is the stress of making those decisions.
I think I made good choices. I think I went to a great school and I got an education that is going to help me with where I want to be in 10 years. I learned many new things, and if I hadn't learned to try something new and do something I had never done before, I would have never run for council on a whim, and then now I would never be President.
So who knows where I would have ended up. Bet it wouldn't be as fun or as satisfying as the job I am doing right now. And from someone who is in the future now, you thank your parents, friends, family, whoever helped you get into college. Because your successes in the “future” truly are based on the work you are all doing now.
