Summer Session... Complete.

Today was a good day.

As i mentioned earlier, I started back in school this summer. For the last 6 weeks I have spent every other Friday and Saturday for 8 hours a day slaving away at an executive business course at UNLV.

All right, I'll be straight... it wasn't exactly slaving away. The classes to my surprise as I expected, were interesting, relevant and I honestly couldn't get enough. It's possible that I annoyed the hell out of my classmates with my incessant questions and comments. But it was that fascinating to me.

The only negative I could find out of the entire experience was that I'm not so 100% sure now about the UNLV hotel school. I get the whole "it's the best hotel school in the country" line of thinking but it's the business classes that I can't get enough of. I could spend years sitting in an accounting class and I think I'd be completely content. (Maybe it's my secret love of numbers and formulas.) Strange as it may seem, I feel exactly the same way about economics. Really! I enjoyed it so much that I went to Barnes and Noble and purchased The Economic Naturalist. I mean, who buys books like that for leisure reading? Apparently, me. I just can't get enough of this stuff. I have found myself watching documentaries on PBS about the cause of the financial crisis. Hello? I have episodes of Grey's that are still DVR'd to watch and I'm watching 2 hour specials on the crash of our financial institutions. I had no idea this stuff was this interesting!

So... today was my final day of the summer courses. I am absolutely positive that I have come out of this experience more intelligent than when I came in but it also opened my eyes to how much I don't know and would like to learn.

They did a little ceremony at the end for us. Everyone was well behaved, polite and did the politician like hand shake as they received their certificate.

Not me!

I was excited and proud of myself and I showed it as you can see from the picture. This is me getting my certificate from my super cool, (and ridiculously intelligent) Australian professor Dr. Phelan. Seriously, when he starts talking finance, I feel like I only have a 2nd grade education.

I'll be back to school in the fall!

Now the only decision to make is which major.

Back to School - Part 2

I have a full time job that consumes me. I have a son who demands more attention that an average newborn. I am a newlywed whose husband just got promoted and is now working 16 hour days. I have a dog. I have grubs in my garden. I have 10 pounds to lose. Let's face it... I'm busy.

So I figured now would be the perfect time to head back to school!

I spent my formative college years at West Virginia University.
Ahhh... the Mountaineers.



They were wonderful times filled with learning... about things like friendship, Grateful Dead lyrics, and political opinions. I became an uber feminist at this time. I wore more tye dye than any one human should ever wear. I experienced the true greatness of nickel beers at a place called The Dungeon.
Things I didn't spend a large amount of time on (confirmed by my recently received transcript) were classes, studying and my education.

It's been on my list of regrets for 13 years now. It's frustrating as hell to pay off a rather large sum of money for a school loan that did not earn me a degree.



It's not as though I haven't found success without it... it just sucks to leave something unfinished. I don't feel the need to get my degree to boost my career exactly. I just feel the need to learn. To set an example for my son. To finish something left undone. To make my father proud. To experience college in a completely different way.

So I'm done making excuses.
No more...
-I don't have time.
-I don't have the money.
-It will take too long to finish.
-I can't.

And starting Friday... you will find me two days a week at fabulous UNLV!



I'm starting with an executive business course offered to me by the fantastic company I work for! Then... I'm going to take a quick summer session class in June. I'm figuring on 2 classes a semester.

Current goal - Bachelors in Hotel Administration by the ripe, young age of 35!
(Let's just hope I don't gain the Freshman 15 this time!)