Welcome to my Blog
This is my first time blogging, so I'm a little nervous, but here we go.
I'll be using this blog for FIS1311 assignments, but I also hope to share some of my insights about being a "mature" student. I graduated with a BSc in Occupational Therapy in 1974. 1974! That's probably before some of you were born. Since then, I got married, had 2 children, and acquired a dog. My career has taken me in some very interesting directions, but this is not one that I anticipated. I'm in my 3rd year at FIS and with any luck I expect to be finished in Spring of 2007. Atleast I'll have a few good years before I have to retire. Am I getting too old for this? Maybe, but in the spring of 2007 it will still be Spring 2007 whether I have my degree or not, so why not?
I'll be using this blog for FIS1311 assignments, but I also hope to share some of my insights about being a "mature" student. I graduated with a BSc in Occupational Therapy in 1974. 1974! That's probably before some of you were born. Since then, I got married, had 2 children, and acquired a dog. My career has taken me in some very interesting directions, but this is not one that I anticipated. I'm in my 3rd year at FIS and with any luck I expect to be finished in Spring of 2007. Atleast I'll have a few good years before I have to retire. Am I getting too old for this? Maybe, but in the spring of 2007 it will still be Spring 2007 whether I have my degree or not, so why not?
posted by Jenny at 9:40 PM
9 Comments:
Hi Jenny!
I guess you can count me as one of the people who were born after you got your degree...I was born in 1982, to be exact. I feel sort of the same as you do, though, about age discrepancy. This is my first term at FIS and I feel like the baby around here...I just got my BA in History and English in June of this year. It doesn't particularly bother me, but it's definitely something to get used to. I'm in the archives stream too so I'm a minority with that as well. Anyway, nice to (virtually) meet you, Jenny!
Krystal Rycroft.
Hi,
I graduated in 1999, not that long ago, but it seems like a long time. Congrats on working full-time and going to school. I am working part-time and can't imagine working full-time and going to school. I may do that in the future and I am wondering if I can make it work, without going completely bananas. I have a young son at home, so that also takes up a lot of my time. My dad went back to school (U of T) in his forties, when I was in grade 7. He is a teacher now and loves it. It is never too late to do what you want. It's taken me some time to decide. And of course my life did not map out as I thought it would, which makes life more interesting anyway.
melissa
Hi Jenny!
Honestly you can be really proud of what you're accomplishing. I'm only working part-time and feel as if I'm loosing my mind. I don't know how you are doing it!
Glad to have found your blog :) Bye for now!
Hi Jenny:
I too know a thing or two about old. I can actually remember being with my family and hearing on the radio that President Kennedy had just been shot---I was 7 years old, and I wasn't sure who he was, but I knew from everybody else's reaction that he must've been important. And get this---when I started high school in 1969, Latin was still mandatory at my school.
I'll be 49 soon. Like you, I got married, but I have no kids and I have yet to get a dog. But my wife and I have recently leash-trained our cat. It's true: now we have to walk the little beggar every night.
Anyway, it's good to know there's another mature student in 1311. Maybe we can swap anecdotes about the Nixon administration.
Cheers,
Marcel Faulkner.
P.S. Before I started this course, I thought a blog was something you cured with penicillin.
Hi Jenny.
I guess I count as a mature student -- more mature than during my undergrad, at least...
I also do library work full time (in Ottawa) and squeeze in FIS courses when I can. This is my 3rd year, but at the rate I'm going spring 2007 might be wishful thinking. But hopefully I'll find a way to speed things up (eventually).
Happy blogging.
Jeremy
Hi Jenny,
Don't sweat it! There are lots of "mature students" at FIS and I have met lots of great people my age and younger...but yeah, most of them were born after I finished high school. I started parttime when I was 39 and recently switched to full time to get it over with and finished. 1311 is my last course...maybe we have met in other classes? Working full time and going to school can be difficult but not that much more difficult that 2 kids, a dog and a job! I have 3 kids (2 in hockey), a dog, a cat, a guinnea pig and job...and while we fight over who gets the computer for homework it all seems to work out. I've always thought there should be some kind of support group for the parttime, mature students, but I don't think any of us would have time to meet!
Christine
Hi Jenny,
Love your blog. Like you, I am also a mature student with two kids - one just started kindergarten and the other is two years old. I also work full-time and attend FIS part-time. This is my second year here with three courses completed so far. I am hoping to be done by Fall 2007, but we will see...
You had asked about The Constant Gardener - I found it an interesting film, with a surprising ending and many twists and turns. I did not mind it at all.
Best wishes for this semester!
Yasmin (aka Annie T)
Hey Jenny,
Was glad to catch up with you in class today. I too am a bit squeamish about blogging - not quite sure what to write about and when ... but will give it a try.
I also hope to finish in 2007 - that seems so far away. Who knew we'd have come this far and still manage to find so much to laugh about!!
Hi Jenny:
I can not believe that you are working full time! How do you manage the workload?
Mehrak
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