Back to School.. for me?!

So for the past 2 weeks I have been back to school. It's rather weird being in school, but now that I know what I want to be since I grew up, I enjoy it. I am a new student to this school, so I had a later registration date and was wait-listed for the classes I need to take so I'm taking a class that will be applied to my AA. I have taken online classes before and its something that works for me and my family since I have a better time paying attention at home than in a classroom when its something I have knowledge about.

I am taking an online political science class. I have weekly discussion boards, where I watch a video and type a response up. I then have to comment on at least 3 other students posts. The topics are pretty controversial and I like when people try to talk their perspective about the topics.And of course when people agree with my thoughts. It all comes down to personal thoughts on these topics. I also have 3 chapters a month, where I read, take some little understanding what I'm reading quizzes and then take a chapter test. Then there is a unit test which is a cumulative test of the chapters. We also have a current event log we have to do each week, which is proving to me being the biggest headache of my life since the last time I did current events was 1997-2000 in middle school.

While I enjoy the drive to continue my education I hope it makes my kids see that I'm doing this for them. I wish I had this drive the first time around in college when I was out of high school. My husband has been taking classes too and I love that my kids know when to be quiet and helpful for us to get our stuff done. More so for him and not so much for me but I'm adapting my bribery skills to keep them quiet for me.

I also have a grievance with being back in school, probably the fact it's an online class is explaining things to students.  When a person reads anything most of the time its open for personal interpretation. How I read something is not how someone else in my class reads it and its not how the instructor wrote it. My teacher said he would allow us to have something looked and he would give us feedback to make sure we were doing it right. Well being the type A person I have become when its school work- I asked just to make sure I was doing it correctly and the response I got made me cringe. I have several friends who are teachers and I don't ever think I would see them talk to a student that way. Teachers are supposed to help those who want help. Maybe I just have a bitter teacher and I'll figure it out on my own (and try to get as much extra credit as possible).

Anyways... ending this on a positive note. I am super excited being back in school. My kids have been doing their "get ready for kindergarten books" but little do they know that they might be starting pre-k soon!!! I cannot wait to surprise them with that!