I remember as a kid beginning the “School’s Out” countdown as soon as the Christmas Holiday was over. I remember asking the teacher to use the top right-hand portion of the blackboard as a way to update the number of days remaining. But the days never passed by quick enough. Waiting for the daily digits to decrease is distressing to a student. (Alliteration is fun. Too bad there’s not a “D-word” for student.) "Summer break is always so short, but it takes forever to get through a week of school.” The thought of every student nationwide.
It’s not quite the same for me. While kids across the country are dying to get out of school, I’m longing for the day when I can go back.
I haven’t been to school since the spring of 2003. I was on track for a degree in Journalism and I was rocking and rolling with a GPA over 3.0 through my freshman year. The first semester of my sophomore year was another story…
I had the thought in my head that I could juggle working full-time, going to school full-time – completely online, no less – being a full-time volunteer at my church, and being a full-time boyfriend. I had success at teaching myself college algebra my freshman year, so I thought I could duplicate the same results with pre-calculus. (I had to teach myself college algebra because my professor had a THICK African accent, and I couldn’t understand him at all. So every night, I’d skip ahead a chapter and already know what he was going to “talk” – at least I think he was talking – about at the next class. But pre-calculus is a completely different beast.)
Needless to say, with so much on my plate, I had to make a decision. I withdrew from all my classes – or so I thought – and decided to put school on the backburner. However I withdrew, it apparently wasn’t the correct way, and I failed three classes that I didn’t even take. You can imagine what three failed classes can do to someone’s GPA, not to mention someone’s HOPE Scholarship.
Once my GPA dropped below the allowed limit to receive the HOPE, I made the decision that had already been made for me. I stopped going to school, focused on my work, volunteering and my wife-to-be.
But I’m ready to go back. The days on the calendar won’t switch over fast enough. May 21. It’s really not that far off, but at the same time it’s so far away.
I just never thought I’d be so excited about going to school. I’m delirious.
It’s not quite the same for me. While kids across the country are dying to get out of school, I’m longing for the day when I can go back.
I haven’t been to school since the spring of 2003. I was on track for a degree in Journalism and I was rocking and rolling with a GPA over 3.0 through my freshman year. The first semester of my sophomore year was another story…
I had the thought in my head that I could juggle working full-time, going to school full-time – completely online, no less – being a full-time volunteer at my church, and being a full-time boyfriend. I had success at teaching myself college algebra my freshman year, so I thought I could duplicate the same results with pre-calculus. (I had to teach myself college algebra because my professor had a THICK African accent, and I couldn’t understand him at all. So every night, I’d skip ahead a chapter and already know what he was going to “talk” – at least I think he was talking – about at the next class. But pre-calculus is a completely different beast.)
Needless to say, with so much on my plate, I had to make a decision. I withdrew from all my classes – or so I thought – and decided to put school on the backburner. However I withdrew, it apparently wasn’t the correct way, and I failed three classes that I didn’t even take. You can imagine what three failed classes can do to someone’s GPA, not to mention someone’s HOPE Scholarship.
Once my GPA dropped below the allowed limit to receive the HOPE, I made the decision that had already been made for me. I stopped going to school, focused on my work, volunteering and my wife-to-be.
But I’m ready to go back. The days on the calendar won’t switch over fast enough. May 21. It’s really not that far off, but at the same time it’s so far away.
I just never thought I’d be so excited about going to school. I’m delirious.
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