It's too bad that I couldn't get them to send me a photo in which they are both smiling and looking normal. Too much to ask, I guess. At least they each look happy in one photo. And very growly in the other. And at least I got them to take a selfie - their first day of school! (Kind of.)
Early in January, both of my adult children started school at the local community college. Romney transferred there after a rough fall in Orem, and Chase was just taking his very first college classes ever. What really warmed my heart was that they decided to take a couple of classes together. They enrolled for a communications class together and then an institute class at the UofU institute of religion. I thought that was super cute. They wanted to find another class to take together but it didn't work out. Instead Chase has a rock-climbing class on Wednesdays and Romney has a couple of online classes. They got it all worked out with their work schedules. It's really fun to see them heading out together on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Ok I don't really have any pictures of this but I also had some school adventures to start the year. I had worked really hard over the holidays to get my classes finished up - I had taken two over the summer. The plan was to do all three over the summer, but when I realized that I actually had to take four instead of three, I decided to only do two at a time. Make sense? Anyway, summer classes went smoothly, but the online fall classes were a little harder. I did get them wrapped up though except one little itty bitty tiny thing. And that was a research paper for my infant development class that turned out to be a HUGE GINORMOUS PAIN.
For starters, it was quite long. And also the requirements were a little ambiguous but also occasionally contradictory? I had a few temper tantrums trying to figure it out. But once the holidays were over I really got serious about it and was trying to finish it off. I also had an end-of-term exam for that class, but I couldn't take it until I turned in the paper. I really killed myself on that paper. It had all of these detailed little requirements and it just sucked. I did my best. And I got it turned in, to my immense relief.
As quickly as I could, I reviewed the material for the final, and took that. The final went beautifully until the final three questions, which were essay questions instead of multiple choice. I'm pretty sure I got 100% on the multiple choice - it was so weird. There were supposed to be 75 of them, but there were only 70 and the last 5 were repeats of other questions. Weird. Whatever. Then I looked at the essays and....I had no dang idea how to answer them. Not in the slightest. I stared at my computer screen for 10 minutes or so and then thought to myself .....well....these are probably the last 25% of the test grade, so if I fail them, I'll still get a 75% on the test. Which is passing. So I gave up and entered the test with blank essay questions.
The next day, I got two emails from the class. First, that my grade on the exam was 91%. HUH??? Ok, not going to argue, I'll take it. Then I got my grade on my paper. 58%. No I do not have dyslexia. I did not get 85% and accidentally typed 58%. I FAILED the paper. I was devastated. You can't pass the class if you don't pass the exam and the paper. I quickly emailed the professor asking if I could revise and resubmit. I was so bummed out. I knew it wasn't perfect but I couldn't believe I had failed it.
Then I got another email from the class, telling me my final grade was an A-. Once again... HUH???? I didn't care. Before another thing could happen I sent that grade off to the Association for Child Life Professionals to get my final required class marked off. It was only after I did that that I heard back from the professor, who apologized profusely for giving me a 58% when they meant that I had gotten 58 points out of 70. Still not a stellar grade but I actually did pass and I actually did not have to rewrite the dang paper.
I know this is likely an extremely boring story but it totally traumatized me and getting it all done was a major relief. I had been working on classes since June and was so ready to just be done. And phew! I was done! I got approved to take the child life certification exam. And....then the studying began. That's a whole other blog post.
Here's me, taking myself for a lunchtime walk at work.
And here's another photo of my cute kids, all sporting their fancy hair bows.
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