Usually, over these past four years I have spent at CPUT, the last lecture is a momentous one that I always count down and usually has a lot of significance to me. This year, being my final year as a student and my final year at CPUT, I thought that my last lecture would have an even bigger impact than usual.
This year, the last lecture sort-of just happened. It was a Management Practice lecture held last Thursday, November 1, 2012, but it just went as quickly as it came. Usually I look so forward to "the last lecture" and am counting down the days, but I think this year we all still had so many assignments and tests due after our lectures ended, that it didn't feel significant because we knew it was not really over.
All the last lectures for each subject really just fizzled out this year. I don't even think we really knew they were ending. Maybe, after four long years, we have all come to that stage where we are quite "over it" and the significance of the last lectures are gone.
The last Media Studies lecture was a packed one, with us working right up until our very last lecture. I preferred it this way as we did not waste time. We didn't have to come to class unnecessarily and sit and do nothing. Instead, our very hectic assignment was completed and finalised in our last lecture, making this subject seem more finalised than the others.
I had a really great time in Media Studies this year, surprisingly though as usually it is my most dreaded subject! We learnt so much and Marian very kindly imparted all her knowledge and experience to us, making us view the PR world and the media in a very different light.
I will definitely miss all my classes in the coming months and years, but right now, I just cannot wait to be done once and for all. It has been a long, hectic year, but the end is in sight and the last lectures have been conducted. That leaves just one or two small hurdles to overcome before we call it a day.
As Randy Pausch would say, "be good at something, it makes you valuable."
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