Loving School

"Attending school then was sheer joy. I loved being a student. I loved learning. School was the place of ecstasy-pleasure and danger. To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure."

Why do I love this quote?
Well, because I have to agree. At this point in time, this is how I am feeling about school. I realize more and more each day about how I love being in school, especially college. I love to learn and I am even pushing myself to learn things that are irrelevant to my courses this semester. I love being a student so much, I am already planning for graduate school, which I have high ambitions to attend (meaning I am going to try harder and harder in school.)
I also agree with what the author says about school being a place for pleasure and danger. It can be very fun and exciting when you are learning, sharing ideas with people, being taught by professional scholars and people who work in the fields they teach. Yet, it is still dangerous. My take on dangerous is the work that is involved. It is easy to get excited about certain classes, until you realize how much work you have to do. This sometimes gets in the way of my want and will to learn as much as possible. I suddenly pack my schedule to the top and challenge myself, but then I soon find out how much work it really is. Its very dangerous because now I am always tired and staying up late to do homework as well as learn, learn, and learn some more.

With being in college is the freedom to choose and pick the education I want to get. Especially with art school. I have a freedom to choose my major and a little room to choose which electives I want to throw in, and which Humanities and Sciences to learn. However, despite this freedom, there is also a lot of structure that makes you seem like you are conforming to a specific track. With my major for example, Graphic Design, there are so many core graphics classes to take and there is not a lot of room to take anything else among your schedule. I am fine with this to be honest since I know I love graphic design, but I have recently spoken with some others who find this is to be a problem. At the end of our conversation, I actually referred him to the SMART program which he hadn't heard of, because what he was saying about having some freedom to choose which studio classes you take, as well as what he was saying about wanting to become a teacher, sounded like that program would be a great one for him.

For closing remarks, this quote stood out to me because it expresses what I am feeling currently about school. It really is the best time, to be in college, to be open to all of this new knowledge and work with people who have high levels of specialty in what they teach, it truly is amazing. My ideas and opinions are being changed, confirmed, and challenged everyday and that is how I know I am learning and developing as a scholar as well as creative person.