My First Day to Schoooool!!!!

Finally the D-day arrived.It was my first day of school and strangely i was not hyper tensed or cracked up as in the usual case!!!!!!I still remember my first day of my engineering college :-)... there was this shy girl with hardly any guts to speak loudly even, with multiple butterflies in her stomach, hesitant and scared, in short a bundle of wrecked nerves. My first day to work was no less different. But slowly i guess i have evolved into a much matured person with a new confidence gained mostly due to my professional experience in the two IT companies i slogged in. So guess things have changed pretty much for good in the last couple of years.

And so here i am..commencing my masters here in Florida...and trust me it feels great to be back to the hectic and happy college life (Maybe it will not be that great once the profs start giving assaignments and start the exam process!!!!!). So the first day, and the first class was at morning 9 and i was ready by 8 30 all prim and proper, wearing my new dress and raring to go.Hubby dropped me off in the first class and i entered the room to see that the room was empty!!!Oh ok maybe i am 5 mins early so maybe people will start trickling in any time now. I went inside and took a seat. Then slowly entered 2 guyz (who knew each other beforehand i guess coz they were chattering away) and i breathed. Thank god!!!! there are somebody else who have taken this course along with me. 3 more students entered the class and before i could turn to them say a formal "Hi' the professor strode inside. Now i was completely surprised here for reason 1) she just entered the class and none of them stood up and wished her a good morning or any kind of salutation.In india in my class if we do not stand up and wish the teachers, they would get very angry and promptly leave the class saying we were a bunch of totally uncultured, uncivilised set of idiots.
Imagine!!!!!!! Reason 2) The teacher neither did expect any respect of such kind nor did she bother if the students were paying attention to her or were text messagin their boy friends vigorously. Oh god, what a contrast!!!! Anyways it was good class afterall, she had prepared the slides beforehand and stuck to them.

There was another class evening and it also turned out to be much better than i anticipated. I liked the way technology is put to optimum use here and students can avail the facility of online viewing if they are not able to make it to the classes. They record the class sessions and post it online which serves as a boon to the working students.

End of the day left me marveling at the flexibilty and technological superiority of the education style here in these parts. It was a pleasure attending college here for the reason that there are no strict attendence, no teachers who tell to you get out at the drop of a hat, no one to make you stand outside the gate if you are late, and most importantly no one to blackmail you in the name of suspension from college for trivial things.

Back home now, and still musing over the classes and thinking if i will be able to cope up with all the assignments,tests and projects. " Put your heart in whatever you do" is maybe the right phrase for me now and thats what i should be doing steadfastedly:-).

So far, so good :-).