What was your favorite subject in school?

I haven’t thought much about school in a long time. At least, not in the positive sense. Bad memories and experiences tend to stick with people and overshadow the good ones. Still, I look back and think I have an answer, however it varies by age/grade.

The younger I was, thinking back to elementary school my favorite subject was probably art or gym. Very little structure or expectation applied to those. Music classes followed at least some kind of structure, and I distinctly recall a moment when a friend and I were excited to play a particular instrument and the teacher humored us. We played something we had been practicing as part of the class, and I know we did alright but I could tell our teacher was giving us the look of “okay, great, let’s move on.” So yes, art and/or gym back then was my favorite.

Moving up to middle school I leaned more into the tech and science classes. Anything to do with the computers or experimenting with things like the little robotics stuff or the CNC machines. Those were fun times.

High school I was all over the place. Freshman and Sophomore years were more science. We blew stuff up and did the egg-a-pult capsules, things like that. Oh, and geometry. I wasn’t fond of math classes, but geometry was a different case. I was one of the few students who did well with 3-dimensional geometry and I treated those problems like fun little puzzles. Junior year I loved physics. It was also the year I moved from the Colorado Suburbs to farm country on the Great Plains of South Dakota. Senior year in ag country was interesting. Favorite subject was probably welding! Something I don’t think was even remotely offered in Colorado, but I wouldn’t know for certain since I didn’t get into Shop class.

So there you have it!