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Reflective Essay On The Real World

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I’ll tell you exactly how to get an A, but you’ll have a hard time hearing me. I could hardly hear my own professors when I was in college over the din and roar of my own fear. Those who aim for A’s don’t get as many A’s as those who abandon the quest for A’s and seek knowledge or at least curiosity. I had bookmarked a citation for that fact, and now I can’t find it anywhere. The only way to seek knowledge is to open your hands and let your opinions drop, but that requires even more fear. The goals and outcomes I am required to put on my syllabus make me depressed; they are the illusion of controlling what cannot be controlled. I end up changing everything halfway through the semester anyway because the plan on paper is never what the living …show more content…

Our flaws make us human; steer toward yours. I steer toward mine. That won’t always be rewarded in “the real world.” “The real world” isn’t the real world. I realize that I, as the authority figure in this room, might trigger all kinds of authority issues you have. Welcome to work and the rest of your life. I have a problem with authority figures myself, but I’ve learned how to work with it. Watch my cues. I think I have more to teach you about navigation than about commas, although I’m good at commas. This is about commas, but it is also about pauses and breaths and ways to find moments of rest in the blur of life’s machinery. I hope we can make eye contact. One of you who is filled with hate for this class right now will end up loving it by the end. One of you who I believe to be unteachable and filled with hate for me will end up being my favorite. One of you will drive me to distraction and there’s nothing I can do about it. Later I will examine the reason you drive me to distraction and be ashamed and then try to figure out my own limitations. There will always be limitations, and without my students I wouldn’t see them as

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