Back to the daily grind...

[godale03]

Well guys,

College started up again starting Tuesday night. So I am back to having to juggle going to class, getting homework done, spending time with the family and most importantly.... RC! LOL just kidding... family is more important. Anyway... I was up last night doing my math homework until 11 pm. It took me three hours. I mean they had me estimate the answer first, then solve the original problem, then check your answer... oh.. and all the while remembering to show all work! Then they make you read ahead to the next classes section and then outline it! Which I would normally blow off... but it is collected and graded at each class. Correct me if I am wrong.... I thought this was math... not english class. I know college is a good thing... but why do they have to make you spend so much time doing pointless homework. Just give some problems.. and let me be. Instead they give you 100 problems to do after each class. I think they are in with Georgia Pacific or something.. see home much paper they can waste. Well I only have 15 weeks to go.... 7:15 to 8:45 pm... Tuesday's and Thursday's. Which is also the same day as my kids soccer practice... that I have to miss.

Sorry to rant... I feel a bit better now.

Tom

 

[sweetdiesel]

Hang in there Tom. I was in a similar situation last semester and it can get really tough trying to balance work, school, and family. I had to put RCs on the bottom of the priority list.

How much longer do you have to finish your degree?

 

[godale03]

Hang in there Tom. I was in a similar situation last semester and it can get really tough trying to balance work, school, and family. I had to put RCs on the bottom of the priority list.

How much longer do you have to finish your degree?

I have about 2 to 2 1/2 years.... part time.. maybe longer depending on how the new baby works out. At this point I will not be taking spring classes so that I can be there to help with the new bundle O' joy. And you are right... RC will have to drop to the bottom. It is just frustrating... I will be ok though. I just need to find that "groove". It just seems they want me to write these equations backward, forward and upside down. I guess that is how they get you to commit them to memory.

 

[olds97_lss]

I think they also do it that way so you can solve it from all aspects as opposed to just one. School sucks, but at the end, you get a piece of paper that says you have the ability to learn... oh and you have some general knowledge about something.

 

[godale03]

I think they also do it that way so you can solve it from all aspects as opposed to just one. School sucks, but at the end, you get a piece of paper that says you have the ability to learn... oh and you have some general knowledge about something.

I know it is worth the effort. I am doing it the hard way. Working full time, helping to raise a family, take care of a house, and then going to school at night. I will get through it... I hope! LOL

 

[TalonOne]

Stop your bitchen....at least you have an opportunity to GO TO SCHOOL!!!

The fact that what they teach you there is irrelevant to real life, is a whole other argument.

Now get back to work!!

 

[godale03]

Damn Talon.... Tell me how you really feel!

 

[Rolex]

Hang in there. It's all worth it in the end when your work will be over the neck, and not under it.
A good friend of mine struggled and worked for years. Day jobs, part time night jobs, all while trying to juggle classes pay rent and be a single mother to her little daughter.
It took her many years, but now, at 36, she just graduated and makes a great living carrying a clipboard and a pen as an engineer for the state department of transportation.

 

[godale03]

Thanks for the words of encouragement Rolex. I know it is going to be worth it in the end. I also know that nothing that is truly worth it is ever easy. I will keep trudging through it all and one day, just maybe I will come out on top. Until then.. I will show up listen to Ben Stein teach math, all-the-while trying to stay awake.

Tom

 

[AC48]

Man I thought my college was considered to be a very hard school, and its way easier than most others I hear talk about college.

 

[hamz9561]

You know what a person with a BA degree in English asks everyday?

Would you like to supersize that order today?

Keep your chin up buddy, it will only get better.