I always look forward to Fridays. But after having the summer off from school it was a shock to hop on Light Rail and head to my Mythology class. I was looking forward to meeting up with 2 people from my study group in the Writing Workshop-John and Danielle, but only John was there. It was great to reconnect and feel part of the university. I admire my professor very much-I have a lot to learn about mythology. No waiting-we jumped right in and went over 3 translations of an Egyptian poem and 2 translations of a poem by Sappho-we went right into our "close reading". It felt so good that I knew what that meant, but still everyone seemed to know MORE! Oh, well I'm ready to learn. The class was fascinating and except for the paper I have to do, I'm fine-yeah, I have a presentation-YIKES!! I will be confronting my phobia of public speaking.
After school it was mom-as-usual. Target, picking up school supplies, picking up kids from school.
But then I get the weekend to myself. Yep, Patrick and Nic go away for the weekend and I get to play. Dinner with the ladies Saturday night, maybe a play on Sunday and hanging with my mom on Monday-Whoo hoo!!!
And I guess after this weekend I'll be cracking down with "The Known World", phonics and phonemes and the Greek and Roman myths!!!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
The First Day Back2School
Wow! My head is spinning from my 2 classes today. Ethnic American Lit will hard, but it seems like a great class-interesting readings, interesting students, interesting professor.
Grammar! Oh boy! It is so hard, but Prof. Stork is great and she made us all laugh. But then we dissected how similar cot and caught were and I was lost. Language evolves over time and apparently those 2 words are now pronounced the same, but not to me-there were 4 of us that made the words separate and distinct. It will be a challenging class, but if she was able to teach me how to explicate a poem and do a close reading of texts, anything is possible!
Looks like I'm the oldest student in both classes-we'll see how mythology shakes out on Friday. A few students from last semester are in both of my classes-nice for me to feel as if I belong. I do love the college environment.
I have a lot of reading to do, as predicted my free reading time is over-I'm not quite ready. Over the next few weeks I'll get back into the studying/no time groove.
Grammar! Oh boy! It is so hard, but Prof. Stork is great and she made us all laugh. But then we dissected how similar cot and caught were and I was lost. Language evolves over time and apparently those 2 words are now pronounced the same, but not to me-there were 4 of us that made the words separate and distinct. It will be a challenging class, but if she was able to teach me how to explicate a poem and do a close reading of texts, anything is possible!
Looks like I'm the oldest student in both classes-we'll see how mythology shakes out on Friday. A few students from last semester are in both of my classes-nice for me to feel as if I belong. I do love the college environment.
I have a lot of reading to do, as predicted my free reading time is over-I'm not quite ready. Over the next few weeks I'll get back into the studying/no time groove.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
The Last Day
before school. Wow-the next 16 weeks will be a challenge-I know that and I haven't even started the semester yet. I am looking forward to the challenge. Getting my school supplies in order for tomorrow and helping my son get his supplies organized too. He starts on Tuesday, but I have no Tuesday classes so I get to be ALONE on Tuesday and I have a great day planned: tennis at 9 (haven't played for a year) Working for a couple of hours and then lunch with my fellow back2schooler Melissa (she's not back yet-quarter system). I haven't seen her all summer. It is amazing how the summer goes so quickly. At any rate I may be looking forward to Tuesday a bit more than Monday.
My schedule tomorrow: first up: Ethnic American Lit and then Grammar (called Modern English) with my last semester's fabulous professor. Hard to believe I'm going back, but before I know it it will be Christmas-however before then I'll be reading and writing quite a bit.
In the meantime, I'm going to savor these last few hours by myself...
My schedule tomorrow: first up: Ethnic American Lit and then Grammar (called Modern English) with my last semester's fabulous professor. Hard to believe I'm going back, but before I know it it will be Christmas-however before then I'll be reading and writing quite a bit.
In the meantime, I'm going to savor these last few hours by myself...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Two days left
to call my own. Without homework, essays due, mid-terms, finals. This is exactly why the young should go to college, but hey...
Well at least I got rid of my gray roots -it's bad enough being older at college, but can't LOOK old.
Today was a wonderful day-got to spend it with my friend Ken at his house. A bunch of friends were there to celebrate Scott's 50th birthday-what a great bunch of people. And my son had a great time in the pool, making videos on the mac and playing air hockey. A truly restful day-there won't be too many more of them in the next 16 weeks.
Am I crazy? No, I have my eye on the prize.
Well at least I got rid of my gray roots -it's bad enough being older at college, but can't LOOK old.
Today was a wonderful day-got to spend it with my friend Ken at his house. A bunch of friends were there to celebrate Scott's 50th birthday-what a great bunch of people. And my son had a great time in the pool, making videos on the mac and playing air hockey. A truly restful day-there won't be too many more of them in the next 16 weeks.
Am I crazy? No, I have my eye on the prize.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Four days left
to try to remember exactly why I am going to try to finish my undergraduate degree at my age. Well, I'm 48 now and will certainly be in my 50's when I receive my degree. At this point I can hope it is my early 50's...
1. I graduated high school at 16 and should have gone right away, but I was just too young
2. I went back to college at 32 and received my AA-I thought I would go back as soon as my son slept through the night
3. 4 years went by until he slept through the night and by then my husband was in the Master's program-2 of us can't be in school at the same time (I thought)
4. Too much time-I'm just too old.
5. I'll still be old, but without a degree.
6. I'm too scared to go to the university.
7. I want that damn degree no matter what!
Aha! So that's why I'm going back to school even at my advanced age. I guess I'll be a junior for a while, but that's ok. At the end of it I will have my degree. Better late than never for me.
1. I graduated high school at 16 and should have gone right away, but I was just too young
2. I went back to college at 32 and received my AA-I thought I would go back as soon as my son slept through the night
3. 4 years went by until he slept through the night and by then my husband was in the Master's program-2 of us can't be in school at the same time (I thought)
4. Too much time-I'm just too old.
5. I'll still be old, but without a degree.
6. I'm too scared to go to the university.
7. I want that damn degree no matter what!
Aha! So that's why I'm going back to school even at my advanced age. I guess I'll be a junior for a while, but that's ok. At the end of it I will have my degree. Better late than never for me.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
5 days of freedom left
to choose what I want to read. Starting Monday, the next 16 weeks will be dedicated to working on my grammar, learning different myths and reading 7 novels for ethnic American literature. Oh, yes and a reader specially designed for our class. I have a few more novels at my bedside that I'll be burning through in these last few days.
I keep reading the syllabus for my english 169 class-it will be a challenge for sure, but hopefully I will enjoy those 7 novels. And my son is very excited about my mythology class-he had Greek and Roman mythology last semester of 6th grade-he thinks I'm cool. And since he's 12, my coolness factor is fleeting...I'm just not too cool anymore. But that's cool because he's growing up and just about anything I do is a bit embarassing, but hey I'm sure that's how I felt too.
We just sorted out our school supplies-he's chose the green binder and I chose the black one. We divvied up the pens, pencils, binder paper...I never thought I'd be doing this with my now 7th grader but it's sort of fun. And maybe, just maybe I am looking forward to the first day of school...
I keep reading the syllabus for my english 169 class-it will be a challenge for sure, but hopefully I will enjoy those 7 novels. And my son is very excited about my mythology class-he had Greek and Roman mythology last semester of 6th grade-he thinks I'm cool. And since he's 12, my coolness factor is fleeting...I'm just not too cool anymore. But that's cool because he's growing up and just about anything I do is a bit embarassing, but hey I'm sure that's how I felt too.
We just sorted out our school supplies-he's chose the green binder and I chose the black one. We divvied up the pens, pencils, binder paper...I never thought I'd be doing this with my now 7th grader but it's sort of fun. And maybe, just maybe I am looking forward to the first day of school...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
less than 2 weeks
So what was I thinking? Back 2 school at the age of 48? I thought well, I'm going to be 48 anyway, why not finally get my degree? A junior at 48 and of course I'll be a junior longer than a year because I can't go full time. I can't even believe I did 2 big classes last semester. I am not as nervous as I was about going back 2 school, but I am scared ( a bit) of taking 3 classes-I am especially concerned about Ethnic American Lit. Because I read the syllabus...it sounds great, but scary. In the meantime I am trying to get a treatment written before school starts. At least I'm in it with Jeanie-we may have a shot at getting this screenplay picked up...just maybe...random thoughts. Why am I going back 2 school? I just don't know.
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