To Keep The Flame Burning
March 10, 2019 Uncategorized 5 comments aparent19
When you think of the world “fire” you are usually think of a fire that you sit around with friends and family. But in this case we are talking about ‘fire’ in a way that you can connect to. Have you ever felt “fire” in any subject? Fire can be symbolized is many ways, like anger, or excitement, the feeling of wanting to keep something going.
I can say I have never truly felt “fire” for a class as much as this one class in particularly. School has never been an interest for me. A lot of people ask “Do you like school” and I always say “no”, but if they were to ask me what my favorite class was so far I could possibly answer it. But truly I have never been the student who speaks out in class and give my opinion. I could enjoy a class but not engage myself into the class enough to yell out answers, or be an outgoing person. Its my senior year and I walked through the front door of the school with the intentions of just taking these classes to get my credits. Although that probably was not the smartest way to get through senior year.
I walked into my first class “Criminology” and I sat down and waited for the others to show up. The first thing Mr. Drouin had said was “if you are taking this class just to get a half a credit, this is going to be the longest semester for you.” Right there I said to myself “oh God!” In one way I wanted to take the class, but in another way I didn’t. Mr. Drouin told us about all the topics we were going to do over the semester. It took one word for me to want to drop the class and that was”animal abuse”. But right then and there I said “I cant take this class” all because I did not want to talk about animal abuse where it’s such a sad topic. Defenseless animals being neglected instead of loved and it’s not a subject that I wish to spend time on. Luckly we didn’t get to deep into it, nor did we spend a lot of time on it.
Criminology was the class that I felt “fire”. I don’t know if it was the way he taught the class or what it was about it, but at first I wanted to drop it, but I waited a few class periods to see if I would find interest in it, and eventually I did. This was the first class I have ever felt “fire” to. I always wanted to keep going, to keep learning, we always had the most interesting conversations which is also what kept the class interesting. I can truly say that criminology was like setting fire inside me. I wanted to learn more, I enjoyed that class and I honestly wish there could be a Criminology 2 because it always left me interested into the next day.
I have never really found a class that has interested me like Criminology did. Now saying this I wouldn’t go to college for it, but I also don’t mind learning things like what we did. Criminology has changed my perspective on life; I see things that I never did before I took the class. When I hear situations I connect it to what I learn. Especially from news topics, to things on the streets. Now when ever anyone ask what my favorite class is or was I can honestly answer it with a positive note.
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Criminology definitely sounds like an interesting class. I have always wanted to see what that class is like because I watch a lot of Criminal Minds and I think it would be interesting to learn about that kind of stuff. I agree with you though that I wouldn’t want to be involved in a class that talked too in depth about animal abuse cause I’m too much of an animal person for that. Good for you though for pushing through your feelings of wanting to drop the class, looks like it worked out in the end!
I can relate to picking a class just for credit senior year. Most of schedule this year was to fill it in and most of the class I was just taking them to count as a student. I went in the class thinking I was going to hate them and it turns out that they are pretty interesting to learn about. Now I am glad that I took the classes. I also great that you stayed with criminology and found something you was interested in.
This was very interesting to read. This was me at the beginning of senior year as well. I just took the classes I needed to graduate and that’s it. I can relate to going into a class that I have no interest in at all but I needed it to graduate so I stuck with it until the semester was done. I agree that talking about animal abuse would be a very hard topic to talk about as a class. I am glad that you stuck through it and passed the class to get the credit you need to graduate.
You showed different ways to interpret the word fire and found out a time that you actually enjoyed learning and felt this “fire” inside of you. It is a good thing that you identified something that lit a fire inside of you. Now maybe in the future you can focus your learning onto a subject like this and focus on more things that intrigue you and make you want to keep learning about them.
I love how you pushed through the first couple of classes even though you did not really like it. If you had not done that you would have never found out how much you loved the class! This is definitely something I try to do everyday!