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Diving in Head First: My first week of Fall Semester

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Kicking off the Week When I came into this first week of my "Senior" year, I expected the normal syllabus talks and introductions to courses that we have all become accustomed to throughout our educational years. Boy was I mistaken. Within 2 hours of #AEE412 on Monday, I had my first challenge presented to me. One of our lab instructors Carson set out some packets of 10 minute lessons that we were tasked with teaching in Lab on Wednesday. This means that we had approximately 48 hours to prepare a lesson based on whatever packet we picked up in lecture on Monday. While these weren't super difficult tasks, most of them were things that we had no familiarity with, so it would not be all rainbows and butterflies. I flipped the packet that I chose over, and I learned that I would be teaching some origami.  My Preparation  I am using a term pretty loosely here when I say "preparation". While I don't think I was super ill-prepared, I do think that there were some i...