Posts Tagged ‘school’
When I began grad school last year, the school gave me a breakdown of how many hours of work each class was going to amount to. I was taking the max number of credits that I could, so it was no small number of total hours. I was also working my full time job, in [...]
I don’t want to go back. Please don’t make me go back. You don’t know what it’s like out there. Please don’t make me go back…
-sniff- The summer has come to its end. My heart is deeply saddened by the loss of another summer. Our time together was much too short. I will miss you summer.
I sat in my grad school class one evening listening to the professor lecture on a given topic. She was a stern teacher. She had a certain tone that ignited a sense of fear in all of us. She was strict, authoritative, and terrifying. I dreaded going to her classroom every week. And then one [...]
When I began grad school last year three out of my first four classes felt it was really important to play icebreakers. These teachers’ game of choice apparently was “people hunts!” We were given a bingo grid and instructed to go around the room and find classmates who filled various categories. So I’d spend my [...]
When I was in elementary school, choosing what to wear on the first day of school was always a big deal. It usually involved a lot of thought, planning, and a special trip with Mom to the young man’s section of Mervyn’s. The new freshly purchased clothes would be specially laid aside the night before. [...]