It’s not often that I’m glad to get back to the everyday routine of being a full time student, but after my 6 weeks off working 6/7 days a week since my promotion at my part time job (go, me!) I am so glad to be back at uni. Gone are the days I get to lie in bed for 14 hours a day watching re-runs of Grey’s Anatomy! Gone are the days I get up and reach for a Red Bull to wake me up (not really, I still do this), and gone are the consecutive days I spend in my disgustingly unflattering work uniform!
So it’s been six days since the last “un-lecture” and the first thing I could recall was how much Adrian used examples that involved food. Correct me if i’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure he said he was going to “pump us out like sausages”… Wait what?! And i’m pretty sure at one point he mentioned omelettes, too.
My takeaway from the lecture was pretty much: Quality over quantity. It’s about the journey, not the destination… Or any other clichés you can think of. I feel like this subject is going to test my thinking. This was probably the only lecture I had that actually grabbed my attention. For once, I didn’t want to open my laptop and chat on Facebook. I wanted to pay attention. I wanted to learn. Like, woah. This is a new feeling.
One of the things Adrian said that caught my attention was how he pointed out that whenever our assignments are “make a poster” or “run a blog”, why do we always question it when we don’t complain about having to do ANOTHER essay? God forbid I have to make another journal for Media, but here I am typing up a blog post. Like an online journal. My insides are crying. But that’s the thing. This is creative. This is fun. Essays aren’t fun! They’re tiring and bland and yuck! Another thing Adrian pointed out was the advancement of technology. Using a $60,000 video camera back in the day, when a $700 iPhone 4s in today’s technological world produces better quality picture and sound? That’s surreal. Next thing you know, we’ll have phones that operate via telekinesis or something.
I guess that’s it though. Change is the only thing that’s constant. And we all have to learn to adapt in order to grow. So bring on journal writing, and blogs, and whatever new and inventive media outlets that are going to potentially be my field of work one day.
As excited as I was finding out Brian would be my tutor for Networked Media, I was equally as intrigued when Adrian walked into the classroom. After having just heard him lecture, or rather unlecture us for an hour, I was excited to see what else he had to say that would make me think, and i mean really think about everything under the sun.