Recently I had a class with a student who explained to me that he was diagnosed with cancer. I don’t want to go into detail about my student and their problems – I think they’ve earned the right to deal with things the way they want to. <\/p>\n
Part of teaching six month courses at a big company is that you get to know a lot of students very well. Over the usual six month course we talk about their career and their work, but we also touch on families, hopes and aspirations. I knew that working with this many students the law of averages meant that sooner or later I’d get some bad news from a student. It was still tough to deal with. <\/p>\n
Anyway, the thing about cancer is that it is a life changer for not only the person who has it but everyone around them. It makes you step back and think a little more deeply about what you are doing and why you are doing it. So in some small, tiny way it is a good thing, but it is still hard to get past the bad news. <\/p>\n
My student will be attending classes off and on during the remainder of the term. He has the perfect attitude for the situation, and I think he’ll do fine. The company is being very flexible and helping him out, too. <\/p>\n
So the news spurred a lot of deeper thinking for me, and I’ll let things roll around in my empty head for a while and see what develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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