Here it goes again: learning. Not that I have anything against it really, but sometimes, I feel like the first day of class is sort of like trying to join in on a dance number halfway through a measure. The professors are actually (well, sometimes) thinking about what's ahead, usually because they're retracing their steps for the umpteenth time, and the students aren't really there yet, still acting like these hour-and-a-half blocks are really just a formality, and that the learning will happen whilst we sleep, or some other half-cocked idea that might actually take the burden off of us. Point is, the first day of class rarely finds the professors and students in step.
Except for professor Dan Pavelin. Hats off to him, in his wildly frenetic yet interesting fashion, he managed to be the most interesting first-day Prof yet, capturing our attention with what I will term "style and verve," a phrase which I intend to see added widely to English translation dictionaries by Spring of '09. Just you wait.
And all this enthusiasm out of a man who teaches audio techniques. Though, in perspective, it seems appropriate that he was far less boring than today's hour plus of Production Management. I can already see the end of that course, yet I'm suddenly stuck beneath a heaping mound of busywork, and unable to reach it.
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