Other parts of life

I realized my original intent towards this blog was to talk about the thing that go along with going back to school, well, in my 30's, and I really haven't talked about anything but the actual classes. Well not often really.

There are other challenges to going back to school, though I don't have many of them. I don't have children or a husband to pay attention to, I'm not working so I don't have that stress of working and then trying to get homework done.

I do have the different perspective and determination that comes from being an older student. This isn't me 'finding myself' or going to school because I'm supposed to, this is me training for a specific career mostly because I want to be able to make more money. Completely economically driven, and I'm proud of that. =)

There are unique challenges however, I mentioned the work being done on my house, the fact I own a house is something a typical college student isn't concerned with. And while there are evenings out with friends, I'm not partying at a frat house every weekend, which limits the hung over class attendance, which I see as a good thing.

I do live with roommates though, and the dogs are sort of like really small self sufficent children, if you stretch the definition a bit. Oh and the dog is recovering well, he still had scary demon eyes but so far so good.

Then again there are more and more people in very similar situations, single, no kids, pets going 'back to school' or other things in their lives, while in their 30's.

And on that note I'm off to finish my homework for the week.