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Holy Moley, two posts in one week! What has the world come to? I am pretty sure there is a special place for people like me........

School!

I am turning into a teenager, I am delaying studying for calculus. I used to love calculus. Not so much anymore. This year it kinda feels like I am wearing hip waders slogging around in mud up to my neck. (Take a moment, you'll get it!)

I got my statistics and Chemistry exams back already, nothing like receiving THAT bit of joy on a Monday Morning. While I was extremely pleased with stats, chemistry had me feeling a bit like a bug hitting a windshield. Even though my average was considerably higher than the class average (which makes interest rates seem really high!!) I was still uggghed out by the mark.

Hopefully Calc won't have me considering my choice of returning to school....ooooppps to late for that eureka moment.

It is rather funny being in class with a room full of considerably younger folks. Me, I am old ( in their eyes) and I do not have the benefit of parents or student loan to comfort me through the education process so when I sit in a class and I do not understand something I ASK a question. What a novel concept!

One young lady asked me if I was scared of a certain prof. I almost giggled out loud and told her I am older than that prof and I paid good money for this course so I want to understand it. Regurgitating it during an exam may be another issue I have to work out but you better believe that I am not going to let an educator off because I am too shy to pose a question to them. I paid good money, I want a good education. Ask and ye shall recieve (comprehension not included!).

I guess as a mature student you have a greater appreciation for what your education can do for you and what doors it could open should you take ahold of the opportunity and turn the knob. At least that is what I am hoping for.

Recent news has Nova Scotia front and center as a new multibillion dollar ship building contract has been awarded here. I have several mature friends in school now who are seriously considering quitting. One is a welder and wow, I can't say I blame him but I still remember one of the reasons I came back to school, I don't have that 20 something body that recovers quickly from injury. I have decided to use other body parts , namely my brain, to move on.

Although after Chemistry I am not sure how many more windshields it can hit and still graduate!!!