Eye-Twitch, Familiarity

I found this graphic online, and it is one of the graphics
we made at my organization in Seattle. 

The last core class I am taking for my program is focused on policy in higher education. I attend this class every Wednesday evening, and last night was my second class. My professor was very candid about the nature of the course, emphasizing that this was a class that served a couple of other purposes apart from focusing on policy. Those are, being a kind of "capstone" for all of our core classes, and also preparing us for our comp exams in January. With that said, it means that interwoven into the course are these two other things that take time away from our focus on policy. For me, this is kind of a shame given that this is a subject area I finally have some experience and knowledge in. In discussing the readings for the class last week with some of my cohort-mates, many of them expressed disdain for the reading. I also witnessed a lot of sink-eye. I, on the other hand, while some of it was a bit drab, experienced an eye-twitch because I had some flashbacks to what it is like to work in the policy arena and how much of a house of cards it is. Years of research, finally an opportunity to start pushing it through, and someone sneezes because they don't like how that will message to their base and poof! Sorry, try another policy tack and maybe in another 5 years something can happen. Or just give up entirely. Needless to say, I am looking forward to this class. It falls somewhat within a language I understand, and speaks to the movement of policy and legislation, and how wacky ideas about policy solutions can not just be good ideas, but can sometimes come to fruition.