Beginnings

8/25/14 Beginnings

I just did a quick search through the four years, or so, I have been saving these Time Sheet Approval Quips for the word “begin.” In those years, that word has come up in various forms six times. Either my vocabulary is not that great (a likely consideration), or we are constantly in a state of renewal and change. 

Each new year brings a new crop of students, new technology (headaches), new budget, new opportunities, new regulations, new accountability, new challenges, new learning and new growth. 

Each school year, we BEGIN a new cycle that is the culmination of all of our toils since early in the calendar year. 

Each year, the BEGINing carries an incredible and palpable energy that we must tap into to drive us forward through the year. 

Each wide-eyed, FTIAC student can instill a sense of hope that great things are still to come. 

A BEGINing isn't one unless it is the start of something. Take a second to walk the main hall today and tomorrow. Feel the BEGINing’s energy and gather strength from it. Know that the students you see searching for their classrooms, wearing their still new Delta College sweatshirts and checking each other out are here because you helped to facilitate their decisions and process and registrations. 

We begin.