I am taking 15 hours this semester - Genetics, Human Embryology, and Organic Chem are my science classes, and I am also taking Trig and Chapel and a PE class. :)
So far so good. I have had 2 quizzes and gotten a 100 on both of them. I have found that my time is much more full now. Even when I am not in class I am almost always at school because my breaks aren't long enough to come home and then come back.
Tuesdays are a long day for me. I have Genetics at 9:25 am and then Chapel and then a break and then PE. Then I have a LONG break and I have Embryology at night. Well today during my LONG break there was a picnic at one of the Chemistry professors' home and it was free food so of course I had to go (being a poor college student and all!)
I didn't know any of the other students at this picnic. I have only been back in school for a week after all! I am obviously much older than almost all of the other students there. I met one girl who is a freshman, and she started asking me questions about my life. Eventually I told her my whole life story I think, or the life that began when I met my sweet husband at Longwood University, that led to me becoming a pre-med student at 28! I thought I would share this story on my blog!
I went to college at Longwood University in Farmville, VA in 1998. I was not a pre-med major at this point, I was an elementary education major. I met my husband there. We both ended up dropping out and we moved in together. We were engaged at this point, and had set a wedding date for May 22, 2000. Soon after that we found out that we were pregnant with our first child, due May 8, 2000 so we moved the wedding date up and ended up getting married in Nov of 1999. Our first daughter was born in May of 2000 followed closely by another one in December of 2002 and yet ANOTHER daughter in June of 2005. Yes, if you did the math correctly that means that i had 3 children by the time I was 24 and at that time I had my tubes tied. I chose to stay home with these children until the youngest went to school, and I loved every minute of it. I breastfed my babies and enjoyed them as babies so much - and was able to take care of them while my sweet husband worked full time AND earned his bachelor's degree.
While my husband was in school and I was home with my babies I noticed that I was jealous. I really wanted to go back to school myself. I had a very strong desire to continue my own education. Unfortunately we couldn't afford for both of us to be in school at the same time, plus we needed one parent to be available for the children. I talked about this occasionally with my husband but nothing came of it and we never really talked about it. He graduated in 2008 and I started taking online class in January of 09. At that point my youngest was still at home with me during the day. I took 12 credit hours Spring of 09, 9 credit hours summer of 09, 12 credit hours fall of 09 12 credit hours in spring of 10 and 12 credit hours in the summer of 10, before I transferred from Hinds Community College to Mississippi College. My GPA at Hinds was a 3.902.
I'm sorry if some of this is a repeat from a previous post, I am just trying to be thorough.
Right now I am absolutely positive that I want to be a doctor "when I grow up". When I was 18 I did not know what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted children to be a part of my life, and then i had my own children. Now that I am working at the hospital I am considering specializing in Neonatalogy. I love the NICU and love those babies. It all goes full-circle, and I may end up in a Peds department as a doctor rather than an elementary school classroom. It all goes to show how much you learn about yourself as you get older and have more life experiences. And it is fun to share those life experiences with others who are not there yet.
