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Originally Posted by Zen888
I have submitted my application for the Fall 2009 semester over 2 weeks ago...no response yet.
I already have one semester under my belt in this program. I got a GPA of 3.8!
Anxiety?? It's an all female program (I am female) and most of them are many years younger than me. Alot of catty, immature, gossipy behaviour. This makes me want to quit the program all together.
Then there are the numerous weekly assignments both small and mega big. And getting up for 8am classes when I am fully medicated and sleepy beyond words.
Each day was a struggle for me in the Fall 2008 semester. It was torture.
The instructors and head of the program are not empathetic to my medical condition whatsoever. And they seem to support the younger students over the old fossils like myself.
My latest or immature worry is this......what if in computer class a person approaches me and tells me that she is sitting in my chair while I am already sitting in "her chair". We aren't assigned chairs ... we just sit where ever we want to.
My head is spinning with worry about going back to college......
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As a fellow non-traditional older student I just want to make sure you know you are not alone. I am 19 credits from my bachelors in mathematics & I will be 34 this summer. I know how you can feel like a fish out of water. I took a course a couple years back that was listed under "women's studies" Picture being a 30 something year old male in that setting...YIPES!! I felt like everything I said was taken as sexist.
Also, most of my professors at this level are Asian which speak broken english & are difficult to understand.
I actually had a very young profesor who was only a couple years older than me tell me that he thought I was lazy because I missed a couple classes. I about hit the roof!! This guy had no experience in his life outside of an academic setting.
In the last 5 years I have years I've gotten through my courses with decent grades even making the dean's list a couple of times while personally going through the loss of a daughter that was stillborn, the birth of twins that were premature & in intesnsive care for almost 2 months in which one them required surgery. My wife & I would do our homework in the hospital next to their incubaters & taking care of our older 2 kids. We've also dealt with the after effects of the NIU shootings as well as me being hospitalized twice in the last year while theey tried to figure out if I was bi-polar or whatever. During those times I still finished my course work well enough to pass & to have this snot nosed punk have the gull to call me lazy without knowing a damn thing about me really got under my skin.
I know it's easy to say tak to the head of the department & I don't know if this reflects your mindset at all. However, I never do that because I assume that they all take care of their own & there will be a negative fall out in your grades if you complain. I know things are not as black & white as they seem when your young. This is something you tend to learn through trial & error throughout life.
Just keep pushing forward, we're behind you
