Having the opportunity to learn from great teachers is something that I cherish very much nowadays. From teachers that have been the worse I’ve seen in my life, especially in commuting their knowledge, to teachers who are at ease to what they want to say and how to make it reach not only the mind of the student, but the thoughts that go through the student’s brains. Instead of just knowing a piece of information, you tend to think of it, analyze it, draw a picture of it, and come up with conclusions you never thought you’d have in you. A teacher is perfect if he or she has the ability to allow the students to come up with conclusions themselves when thoughts or facts are thrown at them.
Starting with my “Contemporary and Critical Business Thinking” teacher, and ending up with teachers that taught me last summer, I think that now I’m able to base my knowledge on something that’s attainable, something that really leaves me thinking. Choosing what I want was not only the best decision I’ve ever made, but its turning my life into an interesting circle of information, information I always was curious about.
I was walking outside today, and I bumped into my Macroeconomics teacher, one of the teachers that taught me in the summer. I was surprised that he pushed me backwards, making me look downwards to see a smiling face looking at me and nagging about why I don’t come to visit him in his office. I talked to him for a while, and made him a promise that I’ll come visit him in the coming days. I never thought professors remembered their students unless they kept on showing up at their doorsteps, especially the ones teaching a class of 200 to 300 students. When I walked onwards, I started thinking to myself that he has not seen me since the summer and I haven’t, not a single time, visited him in his office. I am glad that I left a mark in his class, and a mark in his mind of a model student, a student I always wanted to be. I know I’m heading in the right direction now, the direction that I wanted.
The best results are always and will always be achieved by people who are curious and motivated about what they’re learning, and I have never been motivated as much as I am nowadays because of the support I get from the people that matter the most to me. Small things tend to motivate a person when he’s leading himself into his dream. Even if big barriers started to appear, these small motivational events would be the torch that lights the path ahead.
