It's done. My first full semester of school is finished. The last time I completed a semester of school as a full time student - 13 years ago!
Well, after all the 'old timer' self references, I feel pretty good. Things went much better than I anticipated. What did I get out of it?
Gray hair. Lots of it. The high academic volume of the drafting process: writing a paper, rewriting, editing the rewrites, sharing the rewritten edits with team members for criticism (constructive, of course), interpreting the rewritten edits with comments from professors, submitting the thoroughly sanitized final product for a grade. This takes time, patience, effort, planning, and energy in a different form than what's common for me.
This elongated process is what I missed in the professional world: an expectation of mindful communication - what am I really trying to say? I worked hard, mind you, on all my documents I wrote, even had several used as best practices for other organizations. This is different. This is thoughtful analysis that I am out of practice, but learning fast.
Don't worry, I'm on my way, though.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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