Honey? Where's my backpack?
I felt a little left out on Facebook yesterday.
At least, as much as one can feel left out of a virtual conversation.
I felt like the only 30-something woman who didn’t post a status about how wonderful and/or heartbreaking it was to drop the kids of at school.
Today, I can play along and post: I just dropped my baby off at school!! OMGz!!! He was so cute!
(I’ll pause for a moment while we all mime throwing up into our lunchboxes.)
Of course, the “baby” has an Adam’s apple and a couple tattoos, and he’s joining a potentially record-breaking class at UW-Rock County.
Watching from the outside, I’ve seen nothing easy about going back to school as an adult. School requires a unique set of skills and commitment. It’s certainly not the most difficult thing an adult can do with his or her life, but it’s a challenge that’s different from any other.
It brings a special kind of stress into a person’s life. And, dare I say, it brings a special kind of stress into the adult student’s family life as well?
For my little household, the opportunity to send an adult back to school has been the brightest spot of the recession. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
But I’ll be glad when it’s over.
Sep 2, 2009 at 10:51 p.m.
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Umm -- Blackhawk is not a joke. I teach there, and I don't think it's breaking confidentiality to say that some of my students are amongst the hardest working I've ever seen.
Everybody at Blackhawk chose to be there. If you want a joke, look at the Parker / Craig students who don't want to be there. Someday, they will learn, and then they'll be at Blackhawk.
Sep 2, 2009 at 12:26 p.m.
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Thank goodness he didn't good to Blackhawk. That place is joke. I am suprised that any employer would hire someone from that school.
Sep 2, 2009 at 11:49 a.m.
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As someone who went back to school as an adult (I was 26), I can attest to the fact that it's definitely hard work. For me, it was juggling school, family, full-time work and a new marriage. I went back to college to get a better job, so I wasn't faced with having to return because I'd lost my job. But nonetheless, even if a full-time job isn't involved, it's still hard work...at any age.
You couldn't be more right about it bringing a special kind of stress into the adult student's family life. My marriage didn't survive because of the time commitment involved in being an adult student. Let's just say that hubby looked elsewhere for attention that he wasn't getting at home. :-)
But I have no regrets and wouldn't change anything. I started my 4-year degree (on the 10-year plan) at U-Rock in 1992, and in 2003, I graduated from UW-Milwaukee.
I couldn't be more proud of my accomplishments!
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