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I'm back in college after a five month break and I have to tell you, I'm loving online classes. I guess I should back up a bit for those who are new to me and don't know "the rest of the story".
I was in University in Kentucky; the last semester I was in college ended in May of this year. I had completed all of my pre-requisites except for college algebra. Before beginning college (at age 45) it had been over 25 years since I graduated high school. I had to take all the beginners math classes to get me to the college algebra. I struggled...I hate math...hate algebra even more and cussed and cried and threw lots of things across the room while taking these stupid math classes just so I could make it through the big daddy of them all........college algebra. It's stupid...computers make having to know algebra obsolete. Sure, if I was going to be a chemist or an algebra teacher, I can see where I might need it......but I don't need algebra to shrink heads...I just need to know how to listen and say the right things...(I'm pretty damned good at that already)......anyways.....so I was in college algebra along with two upper level psychology classes and one science class...The semester ended in May....The day was April 10th, 2009 when my world crumbled in around me. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor on my pineal gland. I had a fucking tumor on my brain and I had spent thousands of dollars to fill my brain with important information to be used in my career. The human brain is not like a computer that you can back up in case it crashes........if the brain crashes...that info is gone...deleted...like it never even existed.
I managed to make it through all my classes except algebra. The work is done on the computer and no way could I look at the screen...it was an impossibility. With less than three weeks left..I had to drop the class. Before the tumor I had a 3.9 GPA...one stinking little B kept me from perfect. But getting through the rest of the semester was tough...I pulled it off...my GPA dropped to 3.7 but hey...I got through it.
I'm good now...I started drinking an herbal healing tea...four herb tea....the tumor is shrinking..to the amazement of my doctor...he couldn't believe it. Tumors in the brain don't normally shrink...they tend to be rather hard to treat....but mine is shrinking. Being on the pineal gland, however, has royally fucked up my sleep. The pineal regulates sleep cycles...For what ever reason, I don't get sleepy. I can stay up for days...(I've done it just to prove that I could)......after about two days my body starts showing signs of needing sleep, but I still won't get sleepy naturally. I have to take medicines...or take a hit of some herbal smoke to relax me...The doctors had tried four different medicines, none of which worked. I stopped them all and just take an over the counter med and let them do what they should do. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm usually up until 3 or 4 in the morning...and once I fall asleep I'm good..I'll sleep till noon as long as I don't get waken up. Help the poor shmuck who wakes me up before I've had enough sleep.........
So...anyways.....I started classes again last week. I'm finishing my degree online. I like online classes because the lessons are all there...and I like to get them done. I'm 47 years old; I can read instructions and don't need to be told step by step what to do.
When I went to university 95% of the people I was in class with were younger than my youngest child. I had shoes older than most of them. What we learn in psychology are things I've already discovered in life and figured out. I just didn't know the actual name for the behavior or solutions I had found. Almost everything I've learned so far I can apply to my life at one point or another along the last 30 years. It makes writing papers a breeze.
So yeah...my boyfriend likes it when I'm in school cause he can tell his buddies he's sleeping with a college girl. He's not so keen about the fact that I'm going to be a first time grandma in January because then he's sleeping with a grandma...not quite as cool as sleeping with a college girl.
So there we go...just another fact in the story of my life.........
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Posted by debbiestrange on 2009-11-03 01:47:24 | Rating: | Views: 31
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