It's Not a Race!

What happens to the educational environment when competition is no longer an issue. People plain old freak out. They can't take it. Yes, this program is difficult, but it's Grad School not High School. Are we expected to be experts after seven weeks, no but we have been exposed to so much cutting edge technology that it's unbelievable. When I read a June 8th weblog posting from a cohort member Celia Prince from the Virigin Islands I took the suggested advice and it really helped me. I laughed hard when I read Merrit's weblog from June 30th. Amen Merritt, the graphic was perfect.

A few posts ago I had a whine a cheese party, but the party’s over for me.

I have learned more in these weeks than I thought humanly possible. Has it been easy? Well of course not, but it's been challenging. My lack of expertise (which is a strong admission because I thought I knew everything) and the lack of hand holding in this program have forced me to reach out to my fellow cohorts and say…help. I have witnessed selflessness in people I’ve never met. And I’ll be really honest with you, if it had not been for the structure of this program, I would not have said a peep, well maybe not, to a soul.