11 Days To Go

Driving home on a gorgeous evening after school

Well, it's official. I have 11 days left of my first semester of college life. It's been rough, I'll admit. The late nights,  the partying, the frat parties, bonding with my sorority sisters.... it's all been an epic (I despise that word. Truly, I do) adventure.

Oh wait. I forgot for a minute that I'm 30 years old, have been married for 11 years, and have 5 kids. That is most definitely not what college life is like for me. I am convinced that there is no way I would have been able to hack it in college (and I'm talking a legit university, not hair school, because let's face it, I barely hacked that ;) if I had tried to go after I graduated high school. I truly had no idea how to be responsible, how to study, and how to care about good grades and that someday all of it would matter.

As of right now, I have an A in both my English class and my math class. However, in the next 11 days, I have 6 more assignments due in English, including 2 huge projects and 1 huge paper. And in math, I still have a project, one more assignment, and 2 more big tests to take. It has been a tad bit overwhelming. I can do it, I can do it...

I have 2 classes next semester, as well as a lab. This is getting real. I already don't remember what my life was like before it was consumed with homework, projects, and assignments. How sad is that. I sit and think, "What did I used to do with all of this time I now spend studying?!" Weird.

I'm also attempting to get into a communications class online. I have to retake it because I took it in high school and never attended, so of course I failed the course. See what I men with the hacking it as a teenager? I was so irresponsible! My kids will never be like that, or I will beat them. I actually use all of my studying as a good lesson to them to never be like I was, or this will be their life in 20 years... haha. It terrifies Laylah. She's always telling me, "I have my life planned out perfectly, and it won't be like yours. I will be responsible, and go to college, and get good grades. And then I'll go on a mission." HA! Music to my ears...

Anyway, Teisha, if you read this, I noticed you are a professor at SLCC (and that was a trip, seeing your name listed as a professor!), and all of your classes are full. Help a girl out and let me sneak into your class for fall semester, okay?! 

Well, that's it. Over and out...