Oh boy do I relate to this. Not as a student. As a mama of my kid who’ll be off to university in less than a year (how can that be when I changed his diaper just last week?!).
Like every community, when you enter it as a newbie, it may look simple. Simplistic even.
I remember my first day of college. I was terrified. I was the first person in my family to go to college & I had no clue about the norms, the expectations, even the vocabulary. Sociology? What’s that?
I remember being incredulous that the professors would grade with the same requirements as some of the ‘old’ people in our class (who were likely not a day over 30).
It takes time to enter deeply & simmer & settle into the finely honed perspective that only experience & keen awareness can bring.
May you simmer & settle into diverse perspectives.
