The First Day!
Well, the day finally arrived, I began my first job out of school. My first day was like anyone’s first day, little doing, but lots of watching.
However, the little I did do was highly unusual. We are working with Bright Lights, a junior high camp promoting hard science fields. The camp is amazingly great and I very much appreciate the motive, but of all the groups of students in the world, I think Junior high is the section of students that is the hardest for me to work with and God really worked in me to liven up and care for the students as they are in that transition awkward stage of life that they will later refer other moments of their life too (such as “I am currently in that junior high stage”). Today, the day began with a lesson of instructions, the students were to write instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the “UNL Teachers” (oh yes, that is what I was) were to make the sandwich according to the directions. That is right, my first real doing of my Master’s-level position was making a PB and J sandwich according to directions 7th-9th graders wrote. I am living the high life. But that is not all, I also worked to help the students make edible cars.
I am not complaining, in fact, while it is tough going from knowing all there is to know in one job to completely being useless in another, the day was quite enjoyable. I look forward to taking lead on it next year and finding more ways to work with students in Junior High that are interested in Engineering as a field.
