With great enthusiasm and energy we plunged into producing a print version of our institute paper. Now hours before deadline, I'm realizing the wisdom of our instructor's original plan. They had only asked us to do a web site, using the ASNE template. They knew how much work there were already asking us to do. Something about youth and energy vs age and wisdom…
As we plowed in where wiser people would not have gone, it looked just like a fresh staff of high school students! That was a lesson worth learning. If a group of adults, teachers even, is struggling to turn ourselves into a working team, surely I should be patient with my students as they work out the same problems. That may be one of the most valuable lessons I'll take home.
--Doug Urner