{"id":3635,"date":"2006-01-03T21:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T05:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/03\/first-day-of-school\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:58:23","slug":"first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/03\/first-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7198,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\\\/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=567295&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210426210108\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\\\/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=567295&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:27:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:27:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, okay, so there wasn&#8217;t any big yellow school bus for me today.<\/p>\n<p>And no, there wasn&#8217;t a <em>short<\/em> bus either, smartasses. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Still and all, it <em>was<\/em> my first day in school in fifteen years, so I figured I had to mark the occasion in some form.<\/p>\n<p>While this was the first day, so everything was just introductions, syllabi, and getting things started, it was a decent enough start. First up was ENG101, taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=567295\" title=\"Rate My Professors: NSCC: JC Clapp\">JC Clapp<\/a>, who Prairie had recommended to me. We spent the first half of the hour going over the syllabus, then had the second half to write a brief &#8220;who are you and why are you in this class&#8221; bit (not really an essay, more of a short scrawled letter).<\/p>\n<p>Next was MAT097, with Jennifer DeSoto. While I&#8217;d chosen that particular class because it fit well schedule-wise, it will be interesting to see how I fare. Rather than being a traditional lecture\/assignment style course, it&#8217;s very self-driven and done nearly entirely online &#8212; the teachers are closer to being tutors, and the class hours are there for us to use the school&#8217;s computers to connect to the online course. Technically, it&#8217;s possible to do all the online work from home&#8230;<em>if<\/em> you have a Windows based PC. &#8220; Ah, well&#8230;looks like I won&#8217;t have an excuse for skipping out of the classroom sessions. ;) On the bright side, if the numbers make a bit more sense to me this time around, it was mentioned that there have been students who&#8217;ve completed two or three courses in the space of one quarter. I don&#8217;t expect I&#8217;ll be one of those, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re off to a good start. And on we go from here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, okay, so there wasn&#8217;t any big yellow school bus for me today. And no, there wasn&#8217;t a _short_ bus either, smartasses. Still and all, it _was_ my first day in school in fifteen years, so I figured I had to mark the occasion in some form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}