I always love the first day of classes! It’s a time where everyone is on a level playing field, everyone is prepared and ready to begin the semester, high hopes are everywhere and I get to see previous students! What more could someone ask for? Today, was everything I wanted it to be. I’m teaching ten classes this semester, of which, three are in person. The first two are security classes and the last was a Linux II course, each of them a favorite to teach.
With new students, it is always interesting as you don’t know them, and they don’t know you. I give a spiel of who I am and why I do what I do, they often question my motives of teaching… I love it is why I do it, but they can’t understand how a person could drive as far as I do or give up as much money as I did before. For me, it simply comes down to doing something I love.
Interesting fact I learned today… a certain student was stating how hard a class was and that he was not allowed to finish a project last semester, I wasn’t fair, blah, blah, blah… (For the record, the class new of the final project for four weeks, they were reminded that when the deadline passed the link would 
disappear, the student didn’t believe I would do it…. I did.) The group of students in class telling me of this event, all said, “Yeah, he didn’t know that we were Team Professor Brown! We love him and know you are lying because we got the same messages you did!”
It made my heart happy to hear I have a Team!
