College and Challenges

I know when I was in college, it was hard for me to imagine that I could possibly approach a professor. I mean this person was all knowing. This person lectured year after year, sharing the wisdom that he obtained from years of schooling and years of teaching. Sorry to use the term 'he' but when I went to college thirty years ago most of the professors I had were men. I remember being particularly in awe of the science professors as they rapidly scrolled formulas on the overhead projector while I wrote down whatever they wrote in the hopes that it would all make more sense to me when I got back to my dorm. It usually didn't.

My youngest and I chatted today and she was disappointed in a grade she got on a test she took. It was her first test in that class and she said based on the information they got as to how many points each thing was worth, she should have gotten less points off than she did.

I suggested that she challenge it and politely ask her professor for a bit of his time so that she might ask him about her test. She said she will do it. I hope she does. One important thing I learned in college was to question things you do not understand, and challenge things that do not seem right to you. Most professors will welcome the question and be glad that you care enough to know if it is right or if not how he came up with the results he did. Even if my daughter finds out her grade score is accurate, she will get a better understanding of why and be better prepared the next time around.

It is funny how when we have kids in college, it can bring back so many memories...was it really 3o years ago that I graduated?...my mind says no, but my mirror says yes!

Night before...college

Here I am writing the night before my youngest goes to college. I'm sitting here thinking we're forgetting something, but honestly if I stop and think about it, what all does she really need in order to get started?

Pay Tuition/room/board - check mark
laptop - check mark
clothes on her back - check mark

That is all that she really needs to get started. Well that and a pad of paper and pen, if they even still take notes that way in college now.

This is where I say, "Where did the years go ?" But go, they did and I remember a few times when both girls were young wondering when I would be done with diapers and then it was, when are they going to be in school?..and so on. But then there was the learning to drive, when I got some gray hair, and then there was dating and staying out until later than 10 pm. That is when time really flew. Seemed to start out moving slowly and then sped up through the years. But in the end time went just as it was meant to and it is just my perception about how fast it went that is skewed.

Have I done a good job getting my youngest ready for college? I think so, I hope so. She'll be fine!! ....it is me I'm worried about ;-)