Life-long study

When I was in kindergarten, I used to hate compulsory afternoon naps. I didn’t know why, but I simply couldn’t sleep in the afternoon… I was only sleepy in the morning and then the later it got, the better I felt… which means that I usually had my most active period in the afternoon and in the evening. Afternoon sleep, therefore, was an absolutely unnecessary torture for me, especially that I often got punished because of my inability to sleep. I remember I used to envy schoolkids as they are not forced to go to bed in the afternoon.

Then I turned seven and went to school, homework became my new enemy. I didn’t see why you spend hours at school and still have to do homework when you finally come home. I remember once I wanted to move to Czechoslovakia because somebody’d told me that kids don’t have to do homework there. I envied adults because they just go to work and that’s it, no “homework” to worry about. Let alone random surprise tests and oral exams.    

Later on, there was a time when I used to think that I want to study forever because studying is so much more comfortable than working. It’s for free, you get social aids and scholarships and various discounts, plus you can have a day (or a week) off any time. You make up your own schedule and decide who you want as a teacher, plus you can learn interesting stuff. University is comfortable, definitely much more comfortable than kindergarten or any primary or secondary school. Okay, the exam period is a bit tricky, but you can put up with it two times a year. What do you want to be when you grow up? A university student, what else? At least for a few more years, as long as it’s technically possible. :)

Well, what can I say, six years is a long time so I got bored of it as well. Now that I’m done with uni (at least with the courses, not the thesis and the final exam), I would say that there is no way I would start another major, ever. I don’t quite miss the mess of taking courses, preregistering for seminars, standing in the queue for hours to get administrational things done, having to worry about mistakes the system would run into… and exams, homepapers and academic essays can be annoying like hell, too. It was awesome but there are even better things out there. :)

We are living in an era when life-long studying is a keyterm to success. You always have to keep your knowledge up-to-date if you want to be successful in your field of interest which can be challenging and amusing at the same time… but it definitely takes a lot. A few month-long course is nothing compared to uni, but now you have other things to focus on (like work and family).

Now that I’m just about to start this wonderful new course on Saturday, I decided to make a list of what other things I would like to learn some time in the future:

- webdesign, webbuilding -> would be awesome if I could learn at least basic Javascript, HTML but also Photoshop, Corell Draw and other useful things I’m just messing around with for fun. It really is needed and I would definitely be obsessed with it;

- everything a system admin needs to know. In depth. -> I’m the only user of my own pc and nobody in the close neighbourhood knows more about computers than I do (and believe me, not because I’m such an expert, lol), therefore I’m always in a trouble if something gets fucked up. I even hate bringing the pc to an expert as it takes ages to put things back the way they’d been laid on my table. I hate this, I feel like a total asshole whenever I need to ask silly questions in public…

- maybe… but only maybe a driving license one day -> it’s not really needed, but would be useful. The problem is that nobody in the family drives or owns a car, therefore it would only make sense to get the license if I can as well buy my own car. Haha, the truth on the other hand is that even the driving license is so fucking expensive that I would never get the money for it, so getting a car is even more impossible. But, wouldn’t it be nice?

- I could, or perhaps should learn to focus my energies on constructive things, I need to learn some sort of mediatation technic… I can’t even concentrate on mindcontroll technics because I either fall asleep or get bored after two minutes.

So, these are some of the things I would still like to do when it comes to learning. :) No clue when exactly, but some time in the future, yes…