HIGH ON HIGHER EDUCATION-PART TWO

HIGH ON HIGHER EDUCATION – PART TWO

I began this quest for higher education with some trepidation. Would the students accept someone more than three times their age in the classroom? Would I be able to keep up such a busy schedule? Could I write acceptable papers? Could I pass the exams? All of these questions and more kept buzzing in my head as I took the public bus for my first day of classes.

I had worried needlessly. The kids and I took to each other like ducks to water. In the lecture halls, the discussion groups, and the football games we got along well. At the first football game Dear Wife and I sat in the student section. A student challenged our presence there until I whipped out my student I.D. card. “Cool,” he said.

As the fall semester began, I received invitations to new student get-acquainted activities, one of which was a pumpkin-carving party. I also had many notices from Realtors advertising available apartments, all of which I politely refused, desiring to spend my free time with Dear Wife.

During those wonderful years I had many opportunities to encourage older folk to “ take the plunge.” I'm sending that same message to you today, dear reader. Go for it! The rewards you will receive are priceless.

More later.