This class has given me access to some extremely useful resources--legal documents, custom searches, government databases, this is the sort of stuff a compulsive researcher lives for. I only hope I will be able to find the time to sort it all out over the summer, become proficient at some of it. This 34 year old drug, alcohol, and estrogen addled brain may be the surest bet in getting there eventually, but it doesn't move so quickly and there was a tremendous lot to absorb in a decidedly short time. I suspect that the younger students (or at least the ones who cared to do so) assimilated this information more easily than I am able to do, we all grew up in a technological maelstrom, but my first computer was a Commodore 64 running on DOS. The first time I had opportunity to use the internet, I was 19 and well on my way to intellectual stagnation. I can only assume that many of the online resources explored in class were not as fantastical and exciting to others as they were to me.
The thing I hate most about school is the pervasive feeling that I'll never have the time to thoroughly grasp anything I have learned until I'm no longer a student and have forgotten the vast majority of it. In this class, however, I have learned things with nearly universal practical application to the other educational endeavors which normally keep me too busy to learn anything at all. I'm looking forward to putting all of this to use.
