Thursday, September 02, 2004
Yes, it's that time of year again when Shannon returns to the higher learning institution otherwise known as PCC...that's Pasadena Community College for you folks West of La Brea. Last spring I started taking night classes with the intention of learning more about the Studio Production environment. I took 2 classes last year; Audio for Media & Video Controls Lab. I aced both classes and had a lot of fun in the process. This semester the only class that fits into my schedule is an AVID Editing Systems class. Our first class meeting was last night, it's a one night a week class from 5pm - 10:30pm...damn! That's a long time. It'll go quickly once we start working on projects but last night we were forced to listen to a brand-new-to-teaching teacher, but not new to editing (thank god), ramble on and on and on about how fabulous AVID is. We all were like "great, now let us outta here" by about an hour into class. I'll keep you posted on my progress.
This leads me to a realization that I had recently that I REALLY like going to night school. I already have a degree so all of this learning is an enhancement to job skills that I may need down the road. I encourage anyone who has a free night or two to look into classes at a local community college. I know I'm addicted...I was looking through the course catalogue and wanting to take all sorts of odd classes...accounting, business management, legal assisting, spanish and oh so much more.
Recently I had a chance to look back at my transcripts from CSULB, I think my motto at the time was "C's get Degrees" because iI graduated with a nice C- average. Thankfully I'm doing better the second time around...it's the maturity thing I'm sure.
Off to San Francisco tomorrow for the holiday weekend. Have fun everyone!
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