I was excited about the MTT Program because it afforded me the opportunity to learn in a different way. At our first meeting in the LRC room at the high school, I signed the papers that officially welcomed me into the program. In my head, I had conjured up the idea that this experience would be much like that of a gang, hasta la muerte, only not so violent and eternal. With UTB's problematic first week, and the high-demand of work and planning that a new school years brings, I was not as ecstatic about starting classes as I had first been.
When I first signed into Elluminate I was the only one online. I figured it was because I arrived early. However, as time passed, I started thinking that my classmates were irresponsible because no one was showing up. But then something clicked in my head, I closed the window, and opened a different link. The confusion in everyone's voices, the mic-tests, and the chatthing let me know that I was finally in class, well virtually at least. Much like on the first day of school, we went over the scope and sequence, expectations, and a foreshadowing of what was to come.
Everyone's favorite part about being a student is homework, of course. Ha, even I can't say that with a straight face. Upon realizing that I would have to read about copyrighting, I rediscovered the relationship I once had with procastination. I wished that the day where I would have to mutter the words, "Okay, I have to read this now" would never come. But alas, just as sure as we are that the moon comes out at night, deadlines, for this course, always fall on Sundays. As I was left with no other choice than to read, I commenced, and quickly found that I had lost myself in a world of words. A sense of security for one's hard work, and commands of things we can and cannot do, were nestled in between the white spaces on the webpage. The most interesting bit of knowledge that I took with me after closing my computer screen that night was that copyrighting lasts a whole lifetime plus an additional 70 years. I am now more informed on the subject, and I figure that if I can get through that reading, then I can pretty much take over both concrete and virtual worlds, one assignment at a time.
