Monday, August 29, 2011
Exhausted
Learning, I have found, is extremely exhausting! My brain hasn't had to work this hard in a long time. I must say though, that I am grateful for the husband, in laws, parents and sisters I have. Me going back to school is an entire family affair. The hubs did most of the house work yesterday and I studied and did homework. OK I slept in too. That was nice, I rested my brain for a while. I have seriously spent about 5 hours on homework this week, isn't that crazy? So with that I say, I must go do more, eek.
Friday, August 26, 2011
First week as a student/mom
Friday August 26 2011
This was my first week back at school. Yup, I decided to go back after 12 years or so. It's a very interesting place to be as a 32 (don't tell anyone) year old mother of two. My first day I felt like I was walking through a tunnel and people just stared (not sure if they did, but that is what it was like). You know like in a movie when something happens and the camera starts closing in and spinning, that's what my first day felt like. So anyways I went to my first class which ranges in age from 18 to 45, felt kind of old but there were maybe 2 people who were older than me. This girl sat in front of me and I thought her butt was going to fall out of her shorts. It was disturbing, and we will call her star since she was doodling stars throughout the entire class. This class is going to be HARD!!!!! Medical terminology, ugh. It's basically here is your 1000 page book, go memorize it. It reminds me of last year when I was studying to be a pharmacy tech, that did not go well, and if you know me then you know I don't want to talk about it. SO I have a break between classes and I think people may have thought I was lost. And the way these young people dress, holy cow!
So I go to my second class, which is keyboarding. Apparently it is BASIC keyboarding. The class gets settled and the instructor starts out to say "ok everybody, we are going to learn the home keys today". Me thinking, say what???? I learned that in high school. I was a mortgage processor for 8 years and I applied for a job at the college and typed 52 wpm on their test, is this really necessary? That class is only 5 weeks so hopefully it goes by fast. All that was on Tuesday
Thursday was my second back. I felt a little more comfortable around the school. But "star" girl sat in front of me again. And ya know what she had? A juice box! Seriously, a juice box. THAT made me feel old. I wanted to give her some crackers or a granola bar to go along with it. Maybe I will next time. And keyboarding was a big day yesterday also, we learned the letters E and N, oh my. I don't think I can handle that much excitement. That's all for now, more next week.
p.s. homework sucks
This was my first week back at school. Yup, I decided to go back after 12 years or so. It's a very interesting place to be as a 32 (don't tell anyone) year old mother of two. My first day I felt like I was walking through a tunnel and people just stared (not sure if they did, but that is what it was like). You know like in a movie when something happens and the camera starts closing in and spinning, that's what my first day felt like. So anyways I went to my first class which ranges in age from 18 to 45, felt kind of old but there were maybe 2 people who were older than me. This girl sat in front of me and I thought her butt was going to fall out of her shorts. It was disturbing, and we will call her star since she was doodling stars throughout the entire class. This class is going to be HARD!!!!! Medical terminology, ugh. It's basically here is your 1000 page book, go memorize it. It reminds me of last year when I was studying to be a pharmacy tech, that did not go well, and if you know me then you know I don't want to talk about it. SO I have a break between classes and I think people may have thought I was lost. And the way these young people dress, holy cow!
So I go to my second class, which is keyboarding. Apparently it is BASIC keyboarding. The class gets settled and the instructor starts out to say "ok everybody, we are going to learn the home keys today". Me thinking, say what???? I learned that in high school. I was a mortgage processor for 8 years and I applied for a job at the college and typed 52 wpm on their test, is this really necessary? That class is only 5 weeks so hopefully it goes by fast. All that was on Tuesday
Thursday was my second back. I felt a little more comfortable around the school. But "star" girl sat in front of me again. And ya know what she had? A juice box! Seriously, a juice box. THAT made me feel old. I wanted to give her some crackers or a granola bar to go along with it. Maybe I will next time. And keyboarding was a big day yesterday also, we learned the letters E and N, oh my. I don't think I can handle that much excitement. That's all for now, more next week.
p.s. homework sucks
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