Pleasantly Surprised

When I signed up for this course, in all honesty, it was an act of desperation. I had just dropped out of Microeconomics, which I desperately didn't want to take, and was below the full time student line, which would cause me to lose financial aid. In a panic, I wound up ranting to Dane about my fear and frustration. He encouraged me to take this class; not because he felt like it was easy, but because he said it really helped him align his passions with his actions.

And I completely understand.

I was feeling so immobilized by a sense of fear that I would never figure out what I want to do with my life. And this course didn't cure that completely. But  it did help me recognize that nobody is really set on doing one things for the rest of their lives. But it's all about picking a problem and devoting yourself to fixing it. That's how successful people get stuff DONE: they decide they're going to do something, and then they do it. It doesn't mean they wouldn't be good at a myriad of different things, it means right now, they're just focusing on one.

Above all, I learned how to be proactive. People admire proactivity. If you confidently approach the people you'd like to help you, they flock, they're eager to help, because they want to assist you in your passion.

So, yes. I was pleasantly surprised. Because I was surrounded by passionate-in-at-least-one-area students and a passionate-in-every-way teacher, and together, we developed how we could individually change our mini-sphere of the world to make it better. And that is the most beautiful course curriculum I could have ever imagined.