A renewed passion for learning

Remember Mercedes from Human Impact class? As I went from Garvey to my car in the circle parking lot, I was walking quickly, shuffling my little feet to get out of the cold. I lift up my head by the bell tower, and I spot Mercedes, rolling backpack and all, walk right by me! I instantly got a big smile on my face. I haven't seen her since last December. Delight!

In other news, I'm rethinking graduate school again... meaning, I'm considering going to grad school next Fall. I'd really like to go to KU, but I should really apply to more than one place in case they don't want me! UMKC is my other consideration. If I'm going to be really serious about this, I need to get going on upcoming deadlines with the GRE and all this other craziness. I started considering grad school again, because I think teaching art history is something I'm really interested in. Hartley, my first art history professor, taught in such a way that invigorated me. I got goosebumps all the time in his class just through the amazing way that he would explain art works. Last night when I was working late at the museum, I walked down the hall on my break and just stood outside Hartley's class for a little while, experiencing that same passion for art history when I was a student in his class. I've never had a professor like that, and I think it's really a shame that he only teaches survey classes.

Today for Art Criticism, we were each paired up with one or two people in discussing a particular philosophical essay from our textbook. This is the first college class that I've genuinely felt like a collegian, a real academic! There's about eight other girls in there and most of us have had classes with each other before, so it's nice to have that comfortable familiarity. This is my sixth class with Janzen, I can hardly believe it!

Anyhow, all this to say that I'm enjoying school again, no matter how crazy stressed out I am. I want to learn all I can about art history. The end.