Week 1: Sharing My Learning Experiences

I really didn’t know what to write about since elementary school was so long ago. After reading your responses an old memory came back to me from 6th grade. I had a teacher named Mrs. Kutz. She was blonde and drove a sports car. She came up with songs to remember all the different English Language topics such as the parts of speech, pronouns, conjunctions, etc. I still remember the songs 40 years later.

College was a struggle in the beginning especially math until I had this one professor who asked us what our hobbies and interests were. He used real-world scenarios to explain complex subjects like non-Euclidean geometry. I believe it was the first A I ever received in math since elementary school.

I am a web and graphic designer but when I started there were few resources, think the mid to late 90s. I was helping our development team because I had nice handwriting and took good notes during our brainstorming sessions. I would then make flow charts when one of the interns showed me how to use a different tool to make them. He would have me connect them and say remember few to many and say it while I did the connections. What I didn’t realize until much later was that he basically taught me how to make a database in access that he would then use to create a part of some program. The few to many part I was doing was connecting the keys. He expanded my knowledge by building on things I already knew like making a flow chart to building databases. Had he walked up and said, I’m going to teach you how to make a database I would have thought I can’t do that I’m a designer, not a developer. Instead, he told me I can help you make your job easier and faster.