I chose to write my first blog this week about returning to school as an adult learner. I got the idea from prof. Aggen and I think it is a great one, so here I am writing about being back in college as an adult. Although I thought that coming back to school as a mother and a wife would be extremely hard I have come to find out that it has proven to be much less stressful than I anticipated. I think the support system that I have around me plays a major part in how school is going for me. When I was fresh out of high school and attending college it was very hard for me because I didn't know how to navigate through life as an independent adult quite as well as I do now. When I originally began my college career I was a young, single parent who was for the first time living on my own and trying to balance motherhood, job, school and a social life. Needless to say the ball was dropped on school quite a few times which lead me to stop going and focus on providing for my kids and being the best mom I could be.
After years of contemplating and going back and forth with the idea of going to school or not going back to school I finally decided after my sixth child was born that it was time for me to pursue my education again and it has been the best decision for me at this time. I'm very glad that I found Trinity because it works well with my schedule and they offer exactly the program I was looking for. I feel that God sent me to Trinity and it has been a blessing to me. The work does get hard and it is a lot of work at times but it is worth it and I feel like it's teaching me more discipline. School at this age and stage in life is also forcing me to be better with my time management. This biggest and best thing about coming back to school to do something that I'm passionate about is that I'm showing my children that it can be done no matter the circumstance and I believe that I'm pushing them to want to go to college and get a degree in something even if they don't know what it is yet.
All in all, coming back to school has been a great, tough, challenging experience but I feel more ready now than ever to accomplish the goal that I have set for myself.
