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Photo: Me, as a student, preparing for an exam with many sticky notes!
As an elementary school student, I enjoyed all of my classes, but journal writing was one of my favourite activities. We practiced cursive handwriting every day and wrote entries in our journals with drawings to accompany them. I still have my old journals, and the funny things that I wrote as a child (and the terrible spelling!) make me laugh when I read them now.
As a high school student, I was particularly fond of biology, art, and drafting (and I really hated chemistry!). My high school was a “technical” school, so they also offered auto shop, welding, and woodworking classes. I chose woodworking because my father was a carpenter, but I was not very good at it, and when I saw one of my classmates cut off his finger by accident, I decided to stop taking that class!
As a college student, I studied technical illustration, and my favourite class was scientific illustration, in which we drew plants, insects, animals, cells, and the human body. I even had a chance to work as an entomological illustrator (drawing insects) at the University of Toronto! In college, we also studied several non-art subjects, such as psychology, rhetoric, and political science, and while many of my classmates complained about having to take these courses, I actually found them to be quite fun!
As a graduate student, I studied applied linguistics, and the course I enjoyed most was called Language Policy and Planning, in which we looked at the big picture of how governments, school boards, and curriculum planners decide how languages should be learned and used. This course helped me to realize how complex, important, and controversial language policies can be, especially as part of a national identity!
Overall, I think that any class can be fun if you find a way to make it meaninful to your life. If you can put your own personal twist on the subject, it will become much more enjoyable and memorable!
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