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It required lots of help, but I finally got my schedule worked out at orientation and I was dreading the first week of classes. Yes, I had managed to keep my schedule to Mon.-Wed. and I was done fairly early most days, but my classes also started at 8 a.m. each day, forcing me to take a 7:15 bus to campus that required I be up by 6 a.m. I don’t think I could be any less of a morning person so the first week was pretty rough. But as much as I disliked my schedule, I thoroughly enjoyed my classes.
My first class of the week was my Web Design lecture where my professor was an absolute delight. She spoke to us like we were actual people, even admitting when her teaching method was making no sense to her. That class has me really looking forward to the rest of the semester as I work to get together an actual photo website.
The lecture for my Photography class was on Tuesday night and I was similarly impressed with our professor who seems so genuinely interested in seeing us all improve. Though it’s not a photojournalism class, I think it’ll be a nice change to be working on other types of photography. Our teacher has already mentioned a few exercises we’ll be doing to help our creativity, including locking ourselves in a bathroom and finding new ways to take creative photos of our surroundings… Should be interesting :)
Wednesday was the first day of my Australian Media class, which fulfills my final journalism requirement for graduation and is my only true “journalism” class. However, this class was unlike any journalism class I’ve taken before. One of the first things our teacher explained was that the only class rule is “no worries,” meaning if you can’t make it to class or complete an assignment for whatever reason, no worries. How many times have I heard that in a journalism class? Oh right, that would be NEVER.
Needless to say the first week provided fascinating insight into the Australian teaching structure.
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