The faculty face
September 6th, 2007
Your college instructors will be one of the best parts of your college experience. I was lucky. I had several fantastic teachers in high school. But the instructors I had in college took the student-teacher relationship to a new level. I learned things about real life and the work place that few (if any) textbooks will cover.
One of my copyediting instructors, who’d spent years as a newspaper editor, helped me realize that I didn’t want a career in journalism. An advertising instructor helped my class visualize life in a big city ad agency. I even had an instructor sit down with me and a friend to help us plan a Spring Break trip to New York City.
All of your instructors will have office hours. This is time they are available to meet with their students, to answer questions, or to just talk. Take advantage of those times. Make sure you’re more than a name on a roster of students. Your teachers are where they are because they know their subjects inside and out. They want to share that knowledge with you.
