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It's that time of year... (rant)
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Desdichado
Hero
And there's the difference between men and women right there. When you need comforting, the only thing a man has to offer is jokes. And sex.Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
Because that's what comforts us. That's all we know. And to show that I'm a mature individual who's in touch with his feminine side and all that, I offer this link to a picture and interview of unicorns.
http://www.sayrah.net/theunicorns.htm
Desdichado
Hero
We don't question inspiration when it comes; we just ride it out until it's over.ForceUser said:Man, JD, you are on a roll this week.
Is it the heat?
Bloodstone Press
Explorer
I know how you feel QD. I felt like that my last semester in college. So I stopped going for a while. Now, I’m getting back into the right kind of mindset and I'm tentatively planning on going back in January.
Sometimes you just need to take a break for a while (a year or two). If you force yourself to keep taking a bunch of classes you don't like, you won't do as well as if you were excited to be there.
As for the age thing… don’t worry about it. Everybody’s life is different. I had a developmental psych. Professor who didn’t even start college until he was 40 years old. “Traditional student” is a social construct that only matters to people who worry about things like that.
Sometimes you just need to take a break for a while (a year or two). If you force yourself to keep taking a bunch of classes you don't like, you won't do as well as if you were excited to be there.
As for the age thing… don’t worry about it. Everybody’s life is different. I had a developmental psych. Professor who didn’t even start college until he was 40 years old. “Traditional student” is a social construct that only matters to people who worry about things like that.
DaveStebbins
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I think I can identify with what you're feeling QD. I dropped out of college for five years after my freshman year. When I went back, I was five years older than my classmates and engaged (living with my fiancee off-campus). I got married between my junior and senior years. I didn't have to work while going to school (we lived cheap, I worked for a year while my fiancee finished her masters in Education and she worked while I finished my BS in Engineering), but I was very much the non-traditional student with little in common with my classmates. They wanted to spend every non-class moment partying, whereas I had spent five years doing that after I dropped out.
The good news is that your situation may be a bonus when you do graduate and go job-hunting. Because I was older and married, companies thought I would be more likely to put down roots instead of treating any first job as a temporary starter and heading elsewhere in a year or two (they were right too, I'm still at the same company 16+ years later).
With a year or so left in a Education degree, does that mean you'll be student teaching sometime soon? That can scary and exciting, but it will at least be different. It must be quite a shock, going from GenCon where you were surrounded by people whose company you enjoyed and with whom you had much in common, and now looking forward to heading back to campus where you're surrounded by people but feel isolated by your maturity and marital situation. That would have me down too. Good thing you're surrounded by friends here on the boards!
-Dave
The good news is that your situation may be a bonus when you do graduate and go job-hunting. Because I was older and married, companies thought I would be more likely to put down roots instead of treating any first job as a temporary starter and heading elsewhere in a year or two (they were right too, I'm still at the same company 16+ years later).
With a year or so left in a Education degree, does that mean you'll be student teaching sometime soon? That can scary and exciting, but it will at least be different. It must be quite a shock, going from GenCon where you were surrounded by people whose company you enjoyed and with whom you had much in common, and now looking forward to heading back to campus where you're surrounded by people but feel isolated by your maturity and marital situation. That would have me down too. Good thing you're surrounded by friends here on the boards!
-Dave
Wow. That sounds so strange to me. I was the odd man out in most of my university life. In the state university it seemed most of the people in my major classes were older than I, married, house, kids, dog, and usually, owned an SUV. I was single, living in the dorms, and without a car.
There were, of course, a few singles here and there, but by large, most were non-traditional students. The student union even featured a non-traditional student center where students could get free coffee or soda, use the microwave and fridge for meals, or just use the couches for naps (of course most of the student union is covered with such couches).
There were, of course, a few singles here and there, but by large, most were non-traditional students. The student union even featured a non-traditional student center where students could get free coffee or soda, use the microwave and fridge for meals, or just use the couches for naps (of course most of the student union is covered with such couches).
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