Big changes afoot...
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nwhikerI'm going back to school.
Not grad school (yet, says dh....), but a biotechnology certificate program at a local community college. It's pretty work focused, so I could get a job at the end, but it'll also get my brain back to working.
And chem? Was a long time ago, both inorganic and biochem. A long time.
I'll be taking two classes this summer, both should be according to the prof I talked to yesterday, revisions of stuff I already know, but this is not going to hurt considering how long ago it was that I was last in school. Basic cell biology and basic biochem/organic chem to get me back in the swing of things.
Over the summer the changes to my life will be interesting. Monday and Wednesday, I'll have classes most of the mornings, and all evening, with a break from about noon until 4. One evening finishes at 10pm.
Fall is when all hell will break loose and I doubt winter and spring quarters will be better: I'll be in classes from 4 until 8 every day, with an hour commute to get there, less to get home, four days a week. Yipes. Three classes and a lab, and if I feel the need, another biology class that the prof in charge of the program seems to think I could do without (microbiology). Depending on how the summer goes, I may try to add it.
Oh yeah, the commute? Is going to be hell.
I think I'm going to miss my kids.
But! I'm excited! This will allow me to get a lab tech job if I want one, who knows where/what else I can do? I've been bored at home for a while, and feeling more and more frustrated with my life, this offers a change.
What is bizarre? I'll have to make some small changes over the summer, but in the fall? I can still get to my spin classes, my Weight Watchers meeting etc. The big happenings will be at night, and dh is going to have to take over a significant portion of my usual afternoon running. We might offer to pay my MIL to do part of it too. We'll see. I sense loads of crockpot meals in the future! That said, dh has said he wants to learn to really cook: he can bake beautifully, and assemble a meal from a recipe, and grill, but he's not a good "pull it together" cook, and I guess he's going to learn!
I'm very excited. I have no idea if I'll be able to hack this, but I want to try!
New tag for me to whine about school specific things: reschool! It should of course be "What the hell made me think I could go back to school?" but that is really too long.
Not grad school (yet, says dh....), but a biotechnology certificate program at a local community college. It's pretty work focused, so I could get a job at the end, but it'll also get my brain back to working.
And chem? Was a long time ago, both inorganic and biochem. A long time.
I'll be taking two classes this summer, both should be according to the prof I talked to yesterday, revisions of stuff I already know, but this is not going to hurt considering how long ago it was that I was last in school. Basic cell biology and basic biochem/organic chem to get me back in the swing of things.
Over the summer the changes to my life will be interesting. Monday and Wednesday, I'll have classes most of the mornings, and all evening, with a break from about noon until 4. One evening finishes at 10pm.
Fall is when all hell will break loose and I doubt winter and spring quarters will be better: I'll be in classes from 4 until 8 every day, with an hour commute to get there, less to get home, four days a week. Yipes. Three classes and a lab, and if I feel the need, another biology class that the prof in charge of the program seems to think I could do without (microbiology). Depending on how the summer goes, I may try to add it.
Oh yeah, the commute? Is going to be hell.
But! I'm excited! This will allow me to get a lab tech job if I want one, who knows where/what else I can do? I've been bored at home for a while, and feeling more and more frustrated with my life, this offers a change.
What is bizarre? I'll have to make some small changes over the summer, but in the fall? I can still get to my spin classes, my Weight Watchers meeting etc. The big happenings will be at night, and dh is going to have to take over a significant portion of my usual afternoon running. We might offer to pay my MIL to do part of it too. We'll see. I sense loads of crockpot meals in the future! That said, dh has said he wants to learn to really cook: he can bake beautifully, and assemble a meal from a recipe, and grill, but he's not a good "pull it together" cook, and I guess he's going to learn!
I'm very excited. I have no idea if I'll be able to hack this, but I want to try!
New tag for me to whine about school specific things: reschool! It should of course be "What the hell made me think I could go back to school?" but that is really too long.
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Date: 10 May 2012 22:06 (UTC)For a while I worked evenings and weekends and it was OK, but not working them has been better. But you will cope (or, more precisely, your family will). At first I felt guilty, but them I got over it ;-)