I have a passion for teaching at an open-access college because my own teachers at one changed my life in beautiful ways. Let me explain. I lost interest in learning by the time I entered fourth grade, and I barely graduated from high school. I was floundering and worked a number of dead-end jobs before wandering into a community college. I was just lost enough to apply myself, and teachers noticed. They talked to me! They treated me as if I were important somehow, like I wasn’t stupid and had something to offer the world! Because of their involvement, I gave my all and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. Of course that was no magic bullet, and it took me years to straighten out the mess I had made of my life, but those amazing, generous teachers gave me a sense of importance upon which to build an identity. Without their interest, help, and guidance, I don’t think I would be alive today, and I certainly would not be a professor! Because of that experience, I’ve devoted my life to “paying it forward,” or trying to do for others what was done for me. Indian River State College has been and is the perfect place for me to give back.
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