Spectator-mode Notepad
After the disappointment of the first day, I came to the table bright-eyed and bushy tailed for the second day which was much the same. Though it’s not a particularly bad thing that the group is filled with native speakers. This is their country, and it makes sense that natives would comprise the majority of the group. It’s just not what I was expecting.
When I dropped my expectations, things seemed better. The group is made of generally sensible people, myself excluded. There’s a wide range of both security knowledge and general experience, which is certainly a more diverse group than 35 supernerds sitting in the same room.
There are downsides, too. The first class is about security management systems. Which I maintain professionally. I was given the option to have the course recognized as prior learning, though I don’t think I’ll take it. I don’t know everything about the idea of management systems. I’m a little concerned that it’ll end up like my Bachelor’s Degree, where I didn’t learn anything, just had things I knew re-inforced.
But the positives outweigh it. Not only the schooling, the idea of getting a slightly higher education, but also the monthly excuse to travel. To spend a couple of nights in a city instead of my small town. To ride a train. I like trains.
It’s fine to be a student again.
I better get started on my thesis.