It’s kind of a strange time around my house right now. My oldest son is starting his last year of high
school, my younger home-schooled son is starting the 7th grade, and
I’m preparing to wrap up my first semester of Penn
Foster College.
It’s strange because I never thought I would still be in
college while my kids were in school yet here I am, all these years later,
still trying to wrap up my undergrad degree.
There are some nights when all three of us are doing homework. My high-school aged son was working on a
paper while I was writing an essay.
I have set a new goal for myself. I intend to be in a graduate program before
my oldest son leaves high school. There
just can’t be two undergraduate students in this house at the same time. It’s not like there is a rule against it or anything
like that. For me, it’s a matter of
pride.
I would like to show my sons that it is possible to get an
education no matter how old you are. I
would like to show them that learning is important at any age and that it is
valuable. I also want to show them that
you should always finish what you have started.
I don’t have a degree, but I’m certainly not
uneducated. I have always made a point
of learning something new everyday. If
my sons ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I look it up on
Google. I hate not knowing something,
especially if it is something that I definitely should know.
I am working on my next essay, but I also have to start
cramming for my final exams this weekend.
The reason for this is this is the last essay for which I’ll have to
wait for a grade. After I turn in my
final essay my proctor will be mailed my final exams, and I’ll have three weeks
in which to take them and have them returned to Penn
Foster College.
The way I see it, that gives me about three weeks to study
for my finals. The exams are open-book,
but I couldn’t possibly refer to the text to refresh my memory for each and
every question. So, I’ll be in the awkward
position of writing my final essay, which doubles as my final essay exam for
English Composition, and studying for the rest of the final exams at the same
time. This is not how I had planned to
spend the last few weeks of summer, but here I am.
Like I said, it’s a strange time around my house right now.