I graduate in two weeks! It’s a weird thought but I don’t know. Not that weird. Every week for the last 4 and a half years (except some summers) I’ve gone to work at resnet and that’ll be gone. I just turned in the last paper I’ll have to write today. I haven’t been exactly in the mood to do much of any schoolwork, so this 3 page paper was really hard work for me. I got it done though.
It’s so strange to think I won’t be in school, not be a student. I miss it already. I am going to miss flight team and some of my classes, and resnet. But then again, not that much will change. I’ll still be out at the airport and see my friends and I’ll still coach with the flight team. But..it’s not the same…
I’ve been working hard to get this site back up and it’s close to being done.
For some reason, it’s showing some variable warning all over the damn place even though everything is actually working fine. I’ll see if I can get rid of it. I copied all of my livejournal entries over to this site cause I like this more. Also succeeded in taking over the friends pages in livejournal :D
I think that to be a teacher, one of your inherent motivations should be the desire to teach. To search for the means and methods to instill new knowledge onto your students. I know everyone’s heard the start of this rant before. But here’s the twist. I am complaining about myself. I call myself a teacher in the strictest sense because I interact one on one with my students to teach them how to fly. I spent a few thousand for the knowledge and skill needed to become a flight instructor. But now that I am one, I find that any desire I had to teach people to fly has been eaten by the demoralizing bureaucracy and endless paperwork of a government institution. Disastrous Ohio weather also has its part to play. My students don’t make any progress. They are pretty lazy, especially when I remember the effort I put in to flying when I was in their place. They don’t study, they don’t make an effort to fly when they can, and it comes down on me as the instructor when they do not do well. It’s my reputation that they are risking as well as their own, and for that I have to find extra ways to supplement their learning. This equals more work for me, which as a general rule I am opposed to. Through all the pain and suffering I find myself asking where is the desire and devotion as a teacher that I am supposed to have? I think it disappeared when I went to Dallas and felt closer to my career then I do now. I feel that flight instruction is a step backwards although I was not even flying in Dallas. It’s something that I do only to return to that which impressed me so. I hope that in the days to come I will find something that will return the joy of flight instruction to me. Or maybe it’s just been a bad couple of days.
I am a professional pilot, tech enthusiast, and avid PC gamer. I post about all sorts of things, but you can click a category above to see what I like the most.
