i successfully went to all of my classes and turned in all of my homework this week! i would like to consider that an accomplishment because last, well, not so much! on a “positive” note, my car started making this awful, terrible noise when it is idling today. i am very scared to see what is wrong with it! this has to get me through this year….and then i’ll buy a new car. until then, this 95’ saturn really has to pull through! haha
so back to my ECC days. At the end of my first year of college, I decided that I wanted to switch majors. So I made the treck to ECC South and met with John Harrigan. He was great. I finally had an advisor who knew what he was talking about, and actually cared about what I was interested in. So he gave me the right paperwork and got the ball rolling. Now, John, when I first met him, came off as a bit eccentric. And he was in class too. But, he was, the best professor I have had in college to date. But let me tell you a little bit about ECC South. ALL THE BUILIDINGS ARE CONNECTED. which is amazing. BUFF STATE…..HINT HINT. And I actually felt like I was in a college setting. My core COM classes there taught me so much more than theories. John was my professor for 4 of my classes while I was there. Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Vision and Sound. Communication Theory and Video Post Production. I have to say, that if I took any of those theory classes anywhere else, I would have been bored to death. Every single student that entered the lecture hall was inspired. Truly. To look inside themselves and think about what being said and relate it to their own lives. He used metaphors for each of his classes to relate it to kind of a journey and he incorporated music and lyrics to each class lecture. I really can’t describe it, but there are other Buff State students that know exactly what I mean. John inspired each of us to reach for our goals and let nothing stand in our way of them, and really get know ourselves. I saved all my notes just because. While taking his classes, I knew this what exactly where I belonged. It wasn’t until I had some classes with GIna Christiano that I got turned onto Public Relations……
(its time for grey’s anatomy! yay!)
—Kelly
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