Last night was one of the end of year functions.
Important in that it was college graduation and marked the end of the college career for my full time classmates. Me, being part time will finish at the end of next year. (as an aside, can you believe it’s been a year since I was agonizing over whether I could cope with study on top of everything else??? I know… amazing what you can do when you forego a social life… no wonder I’m still single… )
Anyway… You know how the graduation things are right?
Yawn with a capital Y.
Still… I couldn’t have been more proud of the girls in my class, all 5 of them; the first ever graduates of the degree program offered by the college. So the 2 hours spent clapping as people walked past us and shook dignitaries hands wasn’t really a bust. It’s a great school, setting people up for great futures. And I’m sure that Dixie, Carry On Vicar, MiniMich, Shwobble, & Bathtub will certainly fly!
Congratulations!
I’m just really bummed I have to make friends with another new set of classmates next year. And no doubt they’ll be even younger than this year’s crop…
I think it’s time for Botox.

I was almost late again for class… But remembered that Thursday is college day when I walked in the door… Man, just imagine if I was studying at some other campus… I’d have failed for non-attendance…
Fi asked a while back how the studying is going and I haven’t responed… largely due to a distinct lack of time, but to answer her question the response has to be
“Flippin’ awesome.”
I have to apologise that’s this is not a suitably academic description for use by someone studying in a higher education institution… maybe I should have said. The course is progressing very well, thank you, I am enjoying it enormously.
Rolls Eyes…
We had a refresher lecture yesterday concerning how to write for Higher Ed (because, till now, we’ve been a VET course (as in vocational education and training) and the ethos and practise of both is rather different.
The lecturer delivered a pop quiz to establish how much we read… happily I scored well, getting 13.5 out of 10 (the highest scorer only pipped me by .5) so I’m on the way to being an intellectual, I do at least read the [e-] paper every morning and afternoon… which means I know what the AWB is and other very important things like where the Aussies have been playing cricket in recent weeks…
Apparently this is going to be very useful…
Being a geek has its compensations when you’re a student too. I’m the only bod in the class who takes all her notes on the laptop and who is hooked into the local wireless network during class (perk#1 of being the IT girl) so I’m called upon to reference all sorts of stuff from the net during the lecture… [further proof (as if yesterday’s post wasn’t enough) that being and IT geek is a ticket to being the teacher’s/boss’ pet…] but hopefully it’s more cool than it is geeky and I won’t get ostracised by my peers (who are all apparently half my age).
Anyway, the best part of it all as that I’m exercising bits of my brain that were getting a bit dusty, and it feels awesome.
Now I just have to figure out where to find the time to actually do the assignments…

Must go to college at 9am rather than going to work.
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For her first lecture our heroine is, not 10, not 25, not 50 but 65 minutes late for her first class!
I can tell she’s going to be really good at this studying stuff…