This Isn’t About LeakyCon
I’m planning to blog about the whole experience, hopefully writing every detail before I forget them. But it’s 2am and I don’t have that kind of time yet.
I’m blogging about school again. I got an e-mail from one of my teachers today. Well, our whole work-team got it. He e-mailed us personally to tell us that he’d never seen a work like this (my brother would add: “yeah, but he’s very young!”, but I don’t care), and that it could be a good idea to get it published. Hm, WHAT? Published?
I don’t want to get my hopes up, because this is very hypothetical (I mean, we’re only in our first year in the bac (1st year as undergrads, if it’s more comprehensible) and I can already see a few problems in that work), but… SERIOUSLY? He wouldn’t say that if there was absolutely no chance, would he? He said he’d keep our e-mails and keep us posted “if he gets some offers or ideas”. He seemed quite serious about it.
He also asked if he could keep our printed version to show his future students and, though I feel very honoured, that also makes me sad because I was the one who made the presentation, who printed it and put it all together in a binder and thus I feel very strongly attached to the paper version. (Plus, it’s my paper, my ink, and my binder, lol). I wanted to keep it, as a souvenir at least, because I put so many hours into this. It’s ridiculous. I didn’t count, and didn’t need to, because I enjoyed it a lot (except at the end when it was just correcting some minor mistakes, I got tired of it). Especially working with these people. We once had a four hours meeting, without any breaks, to work on that, and it didn’t even feel like working. I’m so lucky. Everytime I’m angry about myself for choosing this program too late (I’m 2 years behind the “normal” course of things) or choosing this school that’s always on strike and has a lot of problems, I think about those friends and how my life would be totally different without them. If I’d chosen this program in the first place, I wouldn’t have been in the same year as them, and maybe I wouldn’t have made any friends and maybe I would have decided to quit because of that. I’m so, so lucky.
I’m now even more considering the master’s degree. I still have three years until I graduate, but I’d really like to do that.
I love school right now.
C’est tellement cool! C’était un travail sur quoi?
J’en ai parlé dans un précédent article : c’est le projet de communication orale où on faisait faire des meurtres et mystères.
Jacinthe, THAT IS SO COOL! I’m so happy for you! I really hope your paper gets published. =) And I would totally feel the same way about a project! When I love a project so much and have it printed off in a nice binder and stuff, I get really attached to it, too. Maybe you could ask him to photocopy it? I’m sure universities have colour photocopiers (unlike my high school, which is dirt poor now XD), and then you could keep the original. =) Good luck!
I do hope it gets published, too :) I’m sure we would need to work some more on it though, because like I said there were some issues (according to me at least). It would be worth it, definitely. Does that pay well? lol.
Everything was printed in black and white from my own printer, so it wouldn’t really be a problem to print another one. It would just be a lot of waste of paper because it takes more than 40 sheets if it’s printed on both sides (it has more than 80 pages). Also we had attached some CDs and I was proud of the way I found to put them in the binder, and I won’t burn 4 other CDs just for that… I have evrything in digital form, so I’m just being selfish.
Wow, that sounds like an intense report! Yeah, I still know what you mean. It just looks so pretty and professional when it’s laid out like that, as opposed to a digital copy. Eh. Whoa, 80 pages? Actually, that’s pretty understandable. I did a report for my business ISU that was 25 or so pages, I think, and that was only in grade 10, so…
Yeah, well, we were 5 in the team so it wasn’t that bad to write… We’ve written more or less than 15 pages each. And I lied, actually the thing had 74 pages that had text on them – it’s just that some pages needed to be blank on one side so all in all it made more than 80 pages. Still.