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Originally Posted by DanaC
It's true that as a student you are unlikely to have some of the more pressing responsibilities, such as keeping a family fed, housed and happy. But that doesn't mean you can just fuck up without consequence, and there is no reason on earth why that prospect might not weigh as heavily on a 19 year old as the prospect of losing a job might on a 35 year old father of two.
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Yeah, or a 40 year old mother of two.
Here I am, in my senior year of college (at this point, I'm estimating I'll finish after Fall 09) taking 5 classes - none of 'em easy. Two literature classes, business writing, history, and sociology. I would have guessed business writing would be fairly easy for me, since I already DO that for a living, but I took "writing for the web" spring quarter and though once again, I already get paid to do that, it was NOT an easy class.
Note to self: if you take a class in an area you already have performed professionally, do NOT tell the teacher you're experienced. They seem to take it as a personal challenge.
I was invited to interview for the college's Ethics Bowl team, which would have been fun! But when the hell would I do it? No way do I have time.
My days will go thus: put one kid on bus at 6:30, shower and do some housework, put the other kid on bus at 8:30, drive 30 min. to school, take three classes with 10 min. in between each one (and of course they're all across campus from each other, in a triangle), come home, kids come home 1 hour apart, juggle kids' homework/kids' extracurricular activities/dinner, put kids to bed THEN do my own homework, probably fall into bed around 1 a.m. and do it all over again....yikes.
Oh yeah, I forgot -- I have to work and bring in some cash, at least sporadically, too.
And pack/paint/clean my mom's condo to sell it. Might be ready by next spring, over a year after she passed away.
Well, what the heck, it'll keep me out of trouble. Maybe.
