![]() ![]() Tragically, we live at a time where we expect very little of teenagers. ![]() High expectations, it seems, often results in greater performance. Knowing that expectations were high and knowing that we faced a long and difficult fight, we reacted by putting out more effort and ultimately by doing better. With such a challenge, many students rose to the challenge. ![]() I’ve contrasted this in my mind to courses where the professor challenged us on the first day that his would be an exceedingly difficult course and one that would require the best we had. Also needless to say, most of us earned very poor grades. Needless to say, most of us took this as an opportunity to have an evening to ourselves each week rather than actually sitting through long and boring lectures on a subject that was of little interest. It was not a difficult course, he said, and we could probably do fine if we just turned in the assignments and showed up to write the exam. ![]() With these in hand, we were told, there was little use in showing up for the rest of the year unless we were really and truly interested in the subject matter. On the first day we arrived in the lecture hall, the professor handed out a reading list and what he assured us were the lecture notes for the entire course. With a busy semester ahead of me, I decided to take “Death and Dying,” an elective that had the reputation of being an exceptionally easy course (a “bird course” we called it back then). I’ve often reflected on an experience I had when I was studying in college. ![]()
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