Offerings

This time of year, the “going-back” time of year, always makes me question what I have to offer students.  It’s a good kind of questioning, more of a wondering really.  The day I stop should be followed by the day leadership sends me on my way.

This reference frame, a reference frame of offering, got me thinking about someone I knew a long time ago. Barbara Prezelin was her name.

At the time, I was a high-GPA-good-for-little.  Maybe Dr. Prezelin saw something, or maybe she just had very poor judgment.  It’s the result that’s important not the “why”. 

She put me on a ship in the Antarctic.  I had to pull my own weight and then some.  There was no choice.  There was no textbook.  There was no exit.  

A bit of research reveals that Dr. Prezelin offered this kind of opportunity to more than 100 undergraduate students during her career.